Cos that's how I like it baby!
16 bore centerfire on a Lefaucheux action. It's rough in all sorts of places, but it's so damn cool! More pics later, but I'm so excited I wanted to share now. ...and yes I am still using my Duluth shell bag as a purse, shut up.
Re: Something Weird
3Wow. Other than being fabulous, does the scroll trigger guard do anything? Looks springy.
Re: Something Weird
4Totally lovely weapon. Await better pics. The bag? Meh.
CDFingers
CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
Re: Something Weird
5The scroll trigger guard does nothing. The strangeness on the bottom of the all steel forend is the opening lever.
Re: Something Weird
6That sure is a classy double barrel weapon. I am assuming it is a shotgun, right?
If you ever get it out into the field you need to go in full french period dress with big feather plumes in your hat and puffy blouses with knickers. Springer spaniel nipping at your boots.
If you ever get it out into the field you need to go in full french period dress with big feather plumes in your hat and puffy blouses with knickers. Springer spaniel nipping at your boots.
Bleeding Heart Liberal with Second Amendment Benefits.
Re: Something Weird
7I'm not really the feather plume type, but jodphurs and tall boots sounds about right.
Yes, it's a shotgun.
Yes, it's a shotgun.
Re: Something Weird
8Can it fire modern ammunition? Very pretty.
Every one you've ever met or will ever meet, knows something you don't. -Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Anti-Gravity Activist
Black Lives Matter
Anti-Gravity Activist
Black Lives Matter
Re: Something Weird
9I'm thinking that even the light loaded 2" 16 gauge smokeless might stress it. Still have to do stuff like measure barrel wall thickness and other safety inspection crap. Might x-ray or magnaflux if I really want to be sure. The barrels are twist, so plenty of potential for weak spots.
Re: Something Weird
10"Knickers?" good Lord, man - "Britches" is the word you are so diligently searching for but failing to find. "Knickers" are what British girls wear next to their bottoms, and Americans used to wear to go cyclingdrigeba wrote:That sure is a classy double barrel weapon. I am assuming it is a shotgun, right?
If you ever get it out into the field you need to go in full french period dress with big feather plumes in your hat and puffy blouses with knickers. Springer spaniel nipping at your boots.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo.
Re: Something Weird
11Knickers and boots is an entirely different outfit.SailDesign wrote:"Knickers?" good Lord, man - "Britches" is the word you are so diligently searching for but failing to find. "Knickers" are what British girls wear next to their bottoms, and Americans used to wear to go cyclingdrigeba wrote:That sure is a classy double barrel weapon. I am assuming it is a shotgun, right?
If you ever get it out into the field you need to go in full french period dress with big feather plumes in your hat and puffy blouses with knickers. Springer spaniel nipping at your boots.
Re: Something Weird
12There are a lot of looks you can make happen with that combo..depending on how one accessorizesFukshot wrote:Knickers and boots is an entirely different outfit.SailDesign wrote:"Knickers?" good Lord, man - "Britches" is the word you are so diligently searching for but failing to find. "Knickers" are what British girls wear next to their bottoms, and Americans used to wear to go cyclingdrigeba wrote:That sure is a classy double barrel weapon. I am assuming it is a shotgun, right?
If you ever get it out into the field you need to go in full french period dress with big feather plumes in your hat and puffy blouses with knickers. Springer spaniel nipping at your boots.
Why is there the twist in the shotgun barrel?
Bleeding Heart Liberal with Second Amendment Benefits.
Re: Something Weird
13drigeba wrote:<snip quote>
There are a lot of looks you can make happen with that combo..depending on how one accessorizes
Why is there the twist in the shotgun barrel?
Yup - lotsa "looks" there.
Twist was a way of making barrels before boring tools were available. You twisted the metal around a former, usually at least 2 layers with opposite twists, and then pounded the crap out of it till it welded. Prettiest barrels I ever saw were on a pub wall in northeastern Arizona - made of a Damascus twist, and well-weathered.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo.
Re: Something Weird
14And the bulb on the forearm/forend is just an old version of a Schnabel forearm, right?Fukshot wrote:The scroll trigger guard does nothing. The strangeness on the bottom of the all steel forend is the opening lever.
Modern Schnabels are much more subtle, but it says here:
http://www.browning.com/library/tech-te ... asp?id=202
... that "the Schnabel began as a European design and was found on guns with shorter forearms overall." That fits.
"To initiate a war of aggression...is the supreme international crime" - Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson, 1946
Re: Something Weird
15My understanding of the schnabel forend is as an ergo/hand stop thing on scheutzen rifles. The round protrusion at the front of the forend on this is the push tab on the opening lever. The whole thing swings sideways. I think the schnabel forend on rifles pre-dates the Lefaucheux action, but now I have to go look and make sure. You could be right.
Re: Something Weird
16Great find. There is nothing like a pretty double barrel to make the heart sing.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers