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Show us your shotguns
      #250960 - 24/07/14 04:34 AM

Show us your shotguns

The .22 RF rifle thread was successful and enjoyable for almost everyone. So why not a similar shotgun thread.

Almost all of us probably have a shotgun or three! Many more perhaps as a shotgun can have a specific purpose.

So share yours with us and what you use them for.

(I still need to post my .22's so perhaps will photograph the shotguns as well at the same time.)

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: NitroX]
      #250967 - 24/07/14 07:53 AM

This one is the most fun to shoot - and I usually do well at trap with it - best was 23/25.
20 bore, with IC choke. 2 3/4 drams(75gr.) 2F GOEX BP, 1/8" card, 1/2" felt(donnaconna) 1 ounce 8 1/2's the "B" overshot wad. Primed with 4F, shot from beside the trap.



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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #250975 - 24/07/14 11:43 AM

I have a few that all get used at different times of the year for turkey, dove, rabbit, or tree rat.
None are expensive, but they are all good guns in the field in their own right.
Remington 11-48

Remington Model 11

Fox 20 Gauge

Ithaca model 37

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: headoftheholler]
      #251758 - 08/08/14 10:27 AM


My AyA 4/53 12 gauge I had made to my measurements back in 1999 and my Husqvarna 12 gauge hammer gun made in 1917.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #251763 - 08/08/14 10:43 AM


My son's Neumann Brothers 12 gauge ejector project gun (needs a Silvers recoil pad and a small crack in the stock repaired) and his Husqvarna hammer gun made in 1937.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #251765 - 08/08/14 10:58 AM






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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #251766 - 08/08/14 11:41 AM

Daryl, that curly maple stocked flinter is outstanding! I'm green with envy. Is the lock a Siler?
On the Husqvarna do I see a rear sight?

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #251792 - 08/08/14 11:58 PM

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Daryl, that curly maple stocked flinter is outstanding! I'm green with envy. Is the lock a Siler?
On the Husqvarna do I see a rear sight?



Agree--beautiful piece of wood...

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Ripp]
      #251797 - 09/08/14 01:13 AM

TKS. Durr's Egg lock, I think. The large Siler or small Silers (American design) do not have waterproof pans.

Husqvarna 16 bore - right barrel is rifled 13 bore, left modified choke smooth. Both chambered for 16 bore paper, but when using brass case in the right bore, the thin brass is perfect size for 13 bore round ball - designed for farmer loading with black powder. Gun mfgr'd in 1899 or 1900.
Incidently, it's straight rifling, shot wonderfully even cylinder patterns - 70% at 25 yards with 1oz. modern shot shells. The 16 bore plastics were only 1/8" too long in the gun's 2 5/8" chambers - no pressure signs whatsoever.
Left tube shot 70% at 40 yards, even though it was mod. choked.

Typically, factory Husky ammo was available with brass case BP load for the rifled tube, paper hull with shot for the left.
They were easy to keep separate, but the shot could be used in the rifled tube as well, I assume, the reason for the straight rifling.
The also cut spiral rifling. Most of these guns known, have 20 bore rifled tube,s not 16 bore and the norm was for the left tube to be rifled, not the right.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #251807 - 09/08/14 08:40 AM

Thanks for the education on the Husqvarnas.
Now that I took a close look at the pan I see the waterproof design.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #251809 - 09/08/14 11:14 AM

This 'Pelter' has the same lock.





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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #251810 - 09/08/14 11:49 AM

Daryl I want that capgun!

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: tinker]
      #251812 - 09/08/14 01:25 PM

Oh yeah - the H. Whall - 11 bore - ball and shot gun. Breech a full 1 1/4" across the flats - 36" long. The barrel is pretty rough and hard to clean, but I used it for the smoothbore Trail Walk event back in 2006 - and won second place. I think I missed 3 targets out of 21 total. I shot the course in the afternoon with a rifle and missed the same 3 targets for second place - HA!, except with the .40 cal rifle, I shot through links of 2 chain targets, whereas with the big smoothbore, I missed them clean.




Here's a nice cap gun of my bro's. 15 bore. I shoot it better than he does - ticks him off - I've not missed a clay bird with it. The bores are quite good. .675"





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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #251815 - 09/08/14 02:47 PM

Stop it! Your killing me...ok, keep it up. I gotta go some time.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #251819 - 09/08/14 08:33 PM

This 12 bore flint is fun to shoot.







Technically not classed as a shotgun - it is smooth and 10 bore - Brown Bess Model of 1728 - shoots birds like a shotgun- slow steady swing. As with the modles of that period, it has a wooden rod, not steel as later models. Also, there is no bayonette lug, per-se' but uses a plug bayonette. When the charge commences, the bayoette is shoved into the muzzle - poke away soldiers.
This Bayonette, built by my brother is typical of a plug-bayonette of that period - however, this one has an ebony haft, not green-hart or purple hart as the orignals were, I think - although might have been Elm or even Yew.
The gun is gone, sold, but I still have the bayonette. It's scabbard holds the bayonette as well as a hawk, on appropriate angles for grasping and use.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #251826 - 09/08/14 10:21 PM

Very nice Daryl. Looks nicely made.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #251842 - 10/08/14 01:48 AM

TKS - These are the work of my brother.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #252227 - 16/08/14 11:21 AM

Well it's raining out, so looks like i'll go open the safe up.

Pics shortly. Only 2 now, gave away a little double 16 gauge by R. Redman to a member here.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Ash]
      #252233 - 16/08/14 12:33 PM

Top - Single barrel Cawles and Dunn 10 gauge. (bought as a 12, i'm happy with it being a 10!)
Bottom - V.G Bentley (Cheapest SxS i could find, was my first shotgun) in 12 gauge.





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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Ash]
      #252235 - 16/08/14 01:27 PM

That 10 bore is underlever VERY interesting!

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #252238 - 16/08/14 01:57 PM

Thanks, gotta get some cases loaded up with that smokey stuff to give her a whirl!

No idea on any info about it, though, other than what was listed above.

Here's another picture of it.



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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Ash]
      #252251 - 16/08/14 10:17 PM

winchester SxS 22 12g
winchester 101 light weight field o/u 12 g
Berretta perenia o/u 12g
leige richard burton single poachers 12g

Nothing special but functional
Heres some pics of a mates 10 gauge A Sarsaquetta SXS. Sarasquetta Thunderbird , side lock 32" 9.5 lb . cant wait to see it in action this goose season
Perenias
10 gauge




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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: Ash]
      #252261 - 17/08/14 01:09 AM

Quote:

Thanks, gotta get some cases loaded up with that smokey stuff to give her a whirl!

No idea on any info about it, though, other than what was listed above.

Here's another picture of it.





Ash - probably 2 7/8" chamber - and chambered for paper? - just a guess. the relationship between the front of the chamber's diameter to the bore's diameter will tell the case it was designed for. A small difference, say .030" to .060"- for brass, and .1.50 to .200" - for paper. These measurements seemed logical is all, not written down anywhere that I know of.

Brass cases, being so thin increase the capacity a great deal and would need much larger diameter and thicker (more of them) wads, of course.

BP and shot loads usually shoot amazingly well for the choke of the gun, but with cylinder bores, shooting even patterns can be frustrating. From a cylinder bore, heavy wads can tend to blow through the centre of the pattern, disrupting the shot into Donut patterns. A paper wrap around the shot can help a lot.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: DarylS]
      #252580 - 24/08/14 03:40 AM

For a start:
Here is my family heirloom, an early Immanuel Meffert, Suhl, “Hubertus” patent safety gun. According to family traditions it was an 1893 Christmas present to my grandfather’s grandfather, the bearded man on the right of the photo.

The 1893 date is confirmed by the German crown/V Vorratszeichen on the action, stamped only that year. The original Damascus barrels were smashed by an American soldier in 1945, the stock broken off. The stock was glued together later. Luckily my grandfather had made two new, Nitro proofed barrel sets by Ernst Krausser, Zella-Mehlis, immediately before WW2. These new barrels escaped destruction. The shotgun barrels are in 16 – 70 = 16/ 2 ¾”.

The gun may as well appear on the “Combination Guns” forum, as the second set of barrels is in 6.5x52R = .25-35 Win and 16/70. Fitted with claw mounts and an older 4x Gerard scope.

As you see, my son and daughter are the 6t generation now using this gun for hunting sometimes.

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Re: Show us your shotguns [Re: kuduae]
      #252583 - 24/08/14 04:56 AM

You have very beautiful shotgun with fine history, kuduae.

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