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Some of my guns that you might enjoy pics of..

WOW!! I really appreciate fine doubles

Unreal, so pretty

Oh my! Those are on the level of artwork rather than a gun!

Beautiful guns! Do you ever hunt with them?

DonF wrote:Beautiful guns! Do you ever hunt with them?

Don
I only hunt my doubles. Every chance I get. I don't collect. My guns are all shooters

You have a beautiful collection of firearms.

I just hope you're allowed to keep them......

Very nice, is that the original wood on all of them?

Nike
Those are all restocked guns that came to me damaged to the point the original stocks had to be replaced or the stocks they came with were non original. They are restocked in the style of the factory stocks and checkering patterns, albeit the quality of the wood has been upgraded and the stock dimensions are custom to fit me. These were all "rescue" guns. The exceptions are the two 410 Ithaca guns on the other thread asking what you hunt with. They are both original.

They look great
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roaniecowpony wrote:

DonF wrote:Beautiful guns! Do you ever hunt with them?

Don
I only hunt my doubles. Every chance I get. I don't collect. My guns are all shooters

My hat is off to you! I would not buy that nice of guns for fear of buggering them up in the field. I have a 30-06 like that, appraised at way to much to risk hunting with, I just shoot it.

I only hunt with doubles myself but mine are AyA Matadors, not very expensive. 16, 28 and 410.

If you ever chukar hunt with one of those beautys I'll just walk along side and catch your gun when you fall and then claim it ofcourse. beautiful wood did you do any of the work yourself?

mask wrote:If you ever chukar hunt with one of those beautys I'll just walk along side and catch your gun when you fall and then claim it ofcourse. beautiful wood did you do any of the work yourself?

I always throw my body between the ground and my guns when I fall. Skin grows back, bones mend, but guns need gunsmithing and money to fix.

I'm not an avid chukar hunter, but do it occasionally in the terrain that is not as bad as most chukar country. I have a reasonably nice area to chukar hunt that is relatively easy hunting, but it's a hair raising experience to drive to and is reliant on good spring rainfall to be productive. 1 in 3-4 yrs it's decent.

Other than that, I pursue quail and pheasant with those guns. I want to enjoy hunting those guns. Sitting in the safe isn't worth it to me. In fact, one of those guns, the damascus barreled one, I sold to a friend recently because I hadn't fired it in about 7-8 yrs. No sense keeping it if I don't use it.

Beautiful guns. It would cry if I dropped one in the rocks. It would be hard for me to hunt with them.

You only go around once.

Where did you buy your blanks for the gun, roanie?

roaniecowpony wrote:

Old school - great execution - and subdued beauty - just gorgeous!!!

Are those cocking indicators that I see to just top it all off?

One of the most impressive things that I spot looking at the top pic on this pc. is how perfectly proud the wood is - if it is that way everywhere and if this is the original wood which is not likely to shrink any more that is VERY well done!!

Something I noticed on each that I really like is case harden finish and lack of all that scroll work. I like case harden finish ans I think a beautiful gun has no need of all the gaudy engraving many expensive guns have. My AyA's are blued with sparse engraving, I live with them easily. The 28 really should have a new stock but money is a problem for me. years ago I cut the stock down to fit my ex wife and she never shot it the first time. finally got it back from her a couple years ago and had the stock extended to fit me. Works fine but noticeable and I don't care for it. Someday it will get a new stock. I also removed the auto ejectors from them. Never have liked them. Love my extractors!

three barrels...less than 7 lbs...with coyote medicine on the bottom..

Love me some gun porn! Nice pieces everyone.

Nice pc JKP...I haven't gone into drilling territory myself but the double rifles have sure caught my attention....dangerous territory double guns are...as in $$$$$$

DonF - I've got a pile of "need to get to's myself"...just never enough time!! I'm with you on the heavily scrolled engraving...some of it's nice but not always very tasteful. A quick search for high end engraving on double guns will just blow your mind though - especially the depiction of bird dogs...serious talent out there and I sure wish I had been granted that skill by the almighty!!

Also like well executed color case - tend to like lots of browns instead of purples but of course tastes vary.

Roanie - forgive my ignorance regarding Ithaca manufacturing but I'm guessing that is a Flues grade 2 or 3?

Tooling
it's an NID or New Ithaca Double which replaced the Flues model. It's a Grade 3 ejector, factory single selective trigger with the funky selector. The sliding safety on the tang is the barrel selector also. So, all the way forward selects firing the right barrel first, the middle position on the selector/safety is the safe position, and to the rear fires the left barrel first. Very funky for most people and potentially a hazard to someone not knowledgeable. Its a novelty to me. But I leave the gun broke open until my dog has pointed.

Beautiful SxS guns.
I have a couple that I hunt with too. Will have to get some pix for you.
A Francotte and an old AH Fox. Thanks for sharing.

Just to irritate DonF, some of that dreaded engraving..

Iff'n a fellar is going to flash around shooting irons like that he better supply the story that goes with each one of them

My question is how do you decide which one to take to the field with you? do you have a custody schedule set up so none of them feel left out?

The gun action posted two frames up I inherited and sold. My father brought it back from Europe years ago and I didn't see myself ever using it and my son was in college at the time.

The drilling is a gun I bought but it needed quite a bit of work. It was loose, bluing was gone, stock beat up, etc and over the past years I have pieced together a rehab. I always wanted a drilling
light enough to carry in the field. This one has an alloy action and with 26" antinit barrels and weighs under 7 lbs. I've loaded 120gr Barnes bullets for the 7mm rifle barrel and have been able to shoot a couple of coyote that made
the mistake of not running far enough before looking. My son will probably sell it to pay his bills!!!

Nice parts. Very nice.

Here's my grandfathers old double that I inherited. Not the greatest pictures.

Very interesting old piece...looks like a prewar Herkules action. Can you show a picture of the barrel flats and the receiver from the top??

The lettering appears to be SNEIDER...is there anything on the top of the rib?

Or this could be from the Baltimore gunmaker of the same name.

Possibly a sideplated boxlock or a hybrid like the LeFever? That engraving seems turn of the century to me.

My friends over at the doublegunshop forum had a thread on Snieder guns a few years back. These guns date to the late 1870s.

Here's the link
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubb ... 162&page=1

Reads sneider Baltimore on the rib. It was well used. Fed my grandfathers family during the depression.

roaniecowpony wrote:My friends over at the doublegunshop forum had a thread on Snieder guns a few years back. These guns date to the late 1870s.

Here's the link
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubb ... 162&page=1

Another link to a doublegunshop thread, they actually used birddogs photo in it.
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubb ... d7d6ab57c4

Ive been a member over there for ten years. It never ceases to amaze me the depth and breadth of collective knowledge over there. easy fix. It's a great forum.

Bud
did you ever get that Sneider shooting? I didn't see the internal pix, but if it just needed firing pins, it should be a quick and

yea they snagged my picture from somewhere Nike.....

The Ithaca with the straight grip.......... that's my kind of shooter !! Very, very nice.
A 20ga. ?

GrayDawg wrote:The Ithaca with the straight grip.......... that's my kind of shooter !! Very, very nice.
A 20ga. ?

Yes, a 1926 20ga NID grade 3 ejector. Its one of my favorites in the bigger bores that I shoot.