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Wonderful article.

My first Wyoming sage grouse was up near to the Boar's Tusk, north of Rock Springs (I worked there right out of college, for the USGS) and I remember being shocked by the size o ...

Heavy side by sides with a prominent rib weren't uncommon in this country.

When I was looking for a gun to shoot with the Vintagers on targets I eventually found some guns to use that met all of t ...

There's some interesting action going on at your muzzles. Fluid steel mono-block, muzzles and ribs?

There were Pieper some guns that had his name spelled out in the ribands of the damascus. Is this one of them?

Jta5er: Interesting damascus mono-block on that last posted hammer.

French or Belgium? Is that a Henri Pieper?

Subgauge hammers are clearly not as common and they are accordingly more-expensive. There were probably 50 12-gauge guns made for every subgauge one (& it may be more like 100 to 1).

Something ...

Dave:

We all await the coming of the Fall with anticipation. This year it'll be even better, right?

Done again here.

Hammerguns are clearly additive. Proceed with caution.

Nice sidelever. Who makes it?

Hammer guns are like all the rest of the "big boy" toys. "The sky is the limit" here as well. Early English Purdey and Pape guns still command big money, as do the later hammers w ...

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Another view. As you might guess, there is significant weight difference between these two old 12 bores and accordingly... one is a sp ...

Thanks Dave.

Hope your February goes quickly and softly there. Waiting on 2 of my Elsies to get back to me.

Love your hammer pictures.

Griffon: I grew up in a pump gun world, but I've evolved into a doublegun guy.

There is a place for both, however, in my battery of firearms.

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Very nice JP Sauer Dave!

Griffon: I do have a few hunting pumpguns here, a 16 M12, a southpaw 870, what else...a double-hump 520 and even a flat-top 520 too. The M12 is usually the one that get ...