BEST quality Coggswell & Harrison London – made non- ejector back- action sidelock, 16 gauge, six pounds even with 29″ barrels choked very lightly (near cylinder and SK 1 by today’s standards; probably a “lady’s gun” with its 14″ stock as it is too ornate for a young person’s. Despite the length it fits very …
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A little on 4 Bores
We know little about the “ten- plus” bores in America, but in England they still build them. The always- innovative Michael Louca of Watson brothers builds them as Best- quality sidelock ejectors– not just for collectors either, though he admits his over twenty pound, 42 inch plus barrel model is mostly a collectors item. He …
Watches and London Bests
If you read newspapers or magazines with “good” demographics, you might be bemused or puzzled by the totally irrational number of advertisements for wristwatches. Odder still, NONE give you any prices, perhaps because the sticker shock will be unbelievable if you are not already informed. Suffice to say simply– five figures, getting to six pretty …
Stephen Grant hammer 16…
… at present. Next we will focus on the barrels. I think it was made in 1868. Right or double click to enlarge.
Beautiful guns plus
I very nearly used Libby’s not unkind but perhaps too accurate term “gun porn”, but quailed at putting it in the title, fearing just what search engines might send people here. The Stephen Grant 16 is all cleaned up– mechanicals by John Besse, wood by me– safe to shoot, and pretty– now I must decide …
Arrived…
Desideratum
I would like to get this, if I can figure out how to afford it, quite difficult– perhaps my last best chance for a Best gun… There’s always a way…
A little more info?
For those who do not follow regularly– a couple of e- mailers wondered about the post below. The shotgun below is a Best quality London- style Birmingham sidelock 12 bore, with a three figure serial number, built by Frederick “Frank” Scott between the end of the Great War and the end of his firm in …
Locks
Whatever the advertising, don’t take any “as good as” statements from modern makers about their equivalence to Golden Age Best guns. Nobody can afford the new ones, but learn quality, and you might find something over a hundred years old that doesn’t cost much at all, especially compared to its imitators… Gerry Cox, visiting from …