For sale: Belgian double barrel 12 gauge side-by-side made with twist welded steel barrels similar to Damascus and not approved for modern smokeless powder.
Barrels have Belgium black powder proofs. Barrels are 30.3 inches long, 18.2mm and 18.3mm at muzzle, so one has slight constriction probably "improved cylinder" and the other seems to be a cylinder bore.
This gun has been in my neighbor's family since the early 1900's when her grandfather purchased it as a young man either right before or right after he served in the first World War.
It was passed down to her father, but after that nobody in the family had any interest in it. Not any of her brothers, her children, or her nephews.
So, it's up for sale. It was clean but dusty when I got it. I took it apart, cleaned it, brought it to Deer Creek gun shop in Kennesaw so they could give it a look over.
They said it's probably 1920s era manufacture & import, but unknown manufacturer. The trade name on the side -- Russell Arms Co. -- is certainly fictional, and done on request of some hardware store or sporting goods store / distributor.
I cut the ends off of a couple of 12 gauge shells, poured out the payload of BBs and fired the gun in my backyard just blowing the wad and shot cup across the lawn.
The hammer and triggers work. Action is smooth and reasonably tight but I'm sure not as tight as it was 100 years ago .
It has a functional extractor but no ejection; the shells only kick back about a quarter of an inch, and you pluck them out with your fingers.
The primers get a good smack from the hammers / firing pins on this exposed hammer "rabbit ear" shotgun.
The gun has some surface rust, see pictures and there looks like there's some pitting in the front of the chambers forcing cone area of the barrel. Probably from using black powder cartridges which this gun was designed for and which were quite common and popular even into the 1940s.
PS: a gun of this age probably was made with a 2 5/8 inch chamber or maybe 2 9/16, but it will definitely be shorter than 2.75 inches and therefore modern shotshells especially ones with star crimped ends should not be used in this gun. If (AND I SAY "if") IT WERE INSPECTED AND DEEMED SAFE TO SHOOT AT ALL,
then the correct ammunition would be paper-hull 2.5" shells with a cardboard cap on the end and a roll crimp.
TERMS: $399, Cash, to any Georgia resident in a face-to-face meeting. Or could be shipped to your local FFL dealer out of state if you pay the shipping fees and FFL processing fees on both ends.
LOCATION: I'm in CUMMING, but also travel regularly in Gainesville, Dawsonville, Canton, Woodstock, and Marietta.
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Barrels have Belgium black powder proofs. Barrels are 30.3 inches long, 18.2mm and 18.3mm at muzzle, so one has slight constriction probably "improved cylinder" and the other seems to be a cylinder bore.
This gun has been in my neighbor's family since the early 1900's when her grandfather purchased it as a young man either right before or right after he served in the first World War.
It was passed down to her father, but after that nobody in the family had any interest in it. Not any of her brothers, her children, or her nephews.
So, it's up for sale. It was clean but dusty when I got it. I took it apart, cleaned it, brought it to Deer Creek gun shop in Kennesaw so they could give it a look over.
They said it's probably 1920s era manufacture & import, but unknown manufacturer. The trade name on the side -- Russell Arms Co. -- is certainly fictional, and done on request of some hardware store or sporting goods store / distributor.
I cut the ends off of a couple of 12 gauge shells, poured out the payload of BBs and fired the gun in my backyard just blowing the wad and shot cup across the lawn.
The hammer and triggers work. Action is smooth and reasonably tight but I'm sure not as tight as it was 100 years ago .
It has a functional extractor but no ejection; the shells only kick back about a quarter of an inch, and you pluck them out with your fingers.
The primers get a good smack from the hammers / firing pins on this exposed hammer "rabbit ear" shotgun.
The gun has some surface rust, see pictures and there looks like there's some pitting in the front of the chambers forcing cone area of the barrel. Probably from using black powder cartridges which this gun was designed for and which were quite common and popular even into the 1940s.
PS: a gun of this age probably was made with a 2 5/8 inch chamber or maybe 2 9/16, but it will definitely be shorter than 2.75 inches and therefore modern shotshells especially ones with star crimped ends should not be used in this gun. If (AND I SAY "if") IT WERE INSPECTED AND DEEMED SAFE TO SHOOT AT ALL,
then the correct ammunition would be paper-hull 2.5" shells with a cardboard cap on the end and a roll crimp.
TERMS: $399, Cash, to any Georgia resident in a face-to-face meeting. Or could be shipped to your local FFL dealer out of state if you pay the shipping fees and FFL processing fees on both ends.
LOCATION: I'm in CUMMING, but also travel regularly in Gainesville, Dawsonville, Canton, Woodstock, and Marietta.
