Friday, January 19, 2018

Why I like the "Plain Gun".

The seriously flawed first edition of Good Guns, rife with errors and badly illustrated by me, i(s a ...perhaps justifiably... rare book. But it does contain a line drawing of the Platonic ideal of a boxlock gun, and despite the pernicious French influence, as seen in the exaggeratedly curved"shadbelly" stock, it looks a lot like "Plain Gun" (a Weston from Brighton).
Getting the images of gun and illo in the same focus even after Libby outlined the latter ( I CAN'T) but you get the idea...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Steve

My inherited 100 yr. old, Coggeswell & Harrison 20 G box lock, plain, S/S ejector 20 G. has exactly that profile, and handles like a conductors baton!- KISS!- unless (like most of us) you are seduced by masterly hand engraving , and fancy walnut........

Taku said...

A PLAIN GUN FOR ME PLEASE! AYA 16 GA MODEL 2