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DarylS
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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: fjrdoc]
      #393707 - 09/10/25 03:52 AM

Oh yeah - like that one too. Very nicely designed & petite, like the rifle.

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: DarylS]
      #393709 - 09/10/25 04:15 AM

I give up……IMGUR has changed their website (why?) and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the pictures here any longer.

Too bad, I did belly shots of my Alex Henry 10Bore rifle plus my two H&H 10 Bores (rifle & paradox)

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: 3DogMike]
      #393715 - 09/10/25 12:24 PM

This is from a 1904 H&H Royal Deluxe. Very unusual and atypical engraving on the locks and belly.



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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: Kdgj]
      #393730 - 10/10/25 09:16 AM

That certainly is a-typical. Asian elephant in the tropics and brown bear in the mountains. What is on the locks?

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: Claydog]
      #393731 - 10/10/25 10:22 AM

Yes, unusual indeed.
I quite like the elephant, not the usual game-scene as so many were mounted with howdahs for the hunt, rather than depicted as quarry.

Tried to kid myself that bruin could be a sloth bear in the Hindu Kush, but nah...

...and that chambering would be banned throughout the Raj just 3 years later!

BTW: here's the belly of the Rigby Rising Bite 12-bore shotgun that accompanied me to the goose swamps recently.
Again, nice to reference all things "Rigby" this year as a celebration of their 250th Anniversary.
Hope they are still making fine London guns in 2275!



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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: Claydog]
      #393732 - 10/10/25 01:11 PM

Quote:

That certainly is a-typical. Asian elephant in the tropics and brown bear in the mountains. What is on the locks?



The left lock has a lion stalking wildebeest. The right lock has a tiger stalking black buck. The gun was built for Holland’s representatives Guinard & Cie in France. In 1946 Holland resold it to FLT Stuart Fuller Sandys in Southern Rhodesia.

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: Kdgj]
      #393735 - 11/10/25 12:43 AM

Kdgj and Marrakai,

Those are two great bellies! Thanks for sharing them.

Curly

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: CptCurl]
      #393736 - 11/10/25 12:58 AM

Here's another belly. My Dickson Patent Round Action 12 bore shotgun. This one dates to 1929.




A nice, smooth, round belly!

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: CptCurl]
      #393737 - 11/10/25 01:26 AM

The next belly is extremely rare. It's my Dickson Patent Round Action double rifle.

Donald Dallas, in his John Dickson & Son - The Round Action Gunmaker, documents that Dickson made only 14 round action double rifles ever. I wonder how many have actually survived?







This one, #4655, is chambered .500 3-1/4" BPE and was completed Nov. 5, 1894.

Notice how much longer the action bar is when compared to my Dickson 12 bore posted just above.

It has a marvelous belly!

Curly

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: CptCurl]
      #393749 - 11/10/25 07:08 AM

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Here's another belly. My Dickson Patent Round Action 12 bore shotgun. This one dates to 1929.




A nice, smooth, round belly!

Curly



Magnificent pieces CC!
I hope you can keep the Dickson round action in the family, true heirloom pieces indeed!

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: 93x64mm]
      #393753 - 11/10/25 08:32 AM

Are the EVER!!

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: DarylS]
      #393759 - 11/10/25 09:48 AM

This is a 303 Fraser, made around 1898.



Ken

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: Kdgj]
      #393760 - 11/10/25 10:24 AM

A round action double rifle! Now that impressive. Have you posted pictures of it on here? Would love to see some. That Fraser is pretty sweet as well.

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: Claydog]
      #393763 - 11/10/25 12:28 PM

Ah, here we go, Steve Bertram got me up to speed on how to defeat the "new" IMGUR.

20/.577 Alexander Henry hammerless, 25Sep1897, 6 3/4 Dram 570 Grain bullet


Alexander Henry "Best" 10Bore full rifle, 9Apr1894, 2 7/8" brass case & 1048 grain "cannelured bullet"


Holland & Holland 10Bore full rifle, 25 Aug 1881, 3 1/4" case, 14lbs 8oz


Holland & Holland hammerless 10Bore Paradox, June 1898, 2 7/8" case & 875 Grain Paradox bullet, 13lbs 4oz, Nitro Proof for 8Dram/920Grain bullet equivalent.
Of the 89 total Paradox 10Bores made only 37 were hammerless like this example.

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: 3DogMike]
      #393773 - 12/10/25 02:13 AM

I need to take more pictures to hang out with you guys and these wonderful rifles. Great stuff. Love the round action Curl and Mike, your rifles are just great.

Curl - did you see the Dickson round action DR in Rock Island's August 17, 2025 auction? A 450 3.25" Jones underlever round action from 1886. Went for 2.5X the maximum estimate. Lot 3454.

https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail...ammerless-rifle

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: CJF]
      #393774 - 12/10/25 02:52 AM

Beautiful- all of them.

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Re: Show Your Bellies! [Re: DarylS]
      #393775 - 12/10/25 03:01 AM

Fantastic new bellies!!

Keep them coming.

Curly

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