Wednesday, May 03, 2017

If you were to have three English Shotguns

.. you know, if you HAD to...

You could do worse than these three:
Or if it came to two:

Top: Frederick Scott  12 bore SLE proofed for heavy loads, but weighs only 6 1/4 lbs

16 bore Cogswell & Harrison from London, 30" Damascus barrels. 6 lbs

.410 Thomas Turner with 26" barrels, again modern proof for loads I wont use, 15" stock! 4 lbs even.

All have exactly the same proportioms of stock, though the Cog needs a leather- covered pad to bring it up to length.

 










Thanks to Ron Peterson, John Besse, Gerry Cox, and Tom Qunn, among others.
Above: Gerry, John, Scott; Magdalena; Scott Locks

   UPDATE:Tom, you don't usually find these on Gunbroker  (maybe from GI); you ind them from friends, whether dealers (like Ron Peterson) or no.t You also need a good gunsmith on standby.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the little 16 G Coggie! perfect barrel length - Very similar to my 20 G plain actioned, box lock ej. version - If anything , rather too light for me with 27 1/2 in barrels !- Quick to rise to target, but somewhat unsteady, and hence inconsistent?!!
The 20G Damon Petrick U/O, with extra set of 29 1/2 in. 3 in steel proof, Teague choked barrels,is now No 1 choice for all my Game Shooting (Except geese!).

JohnnyUK

Tom Hardy said...

All three very beautiful guns. I just can't seen to find them. GunBroker.com, et al does not seem to be the way to go.