Interesting Scottish 13Bore Pinfire SXS

[Vikram]

An exceedingly interesting mechanism.

http://www.guntrader.co.uk/Guns-For-Sal ... 2122108545

The seller has this to say about the gun

Rare scottish 13-bore pinfire by John Lyell of Aberdeen. This gun has the rare W.J.Harvey patent sliding barrel system. The gun is opened by a hinged underlever sliding the barrels forward for loading! There are holes in the nose of each hammer so after firing and sliding the barrels forward the holes engage with the pins to extract cartridges. The stock is of high quality walnut with delightful hand chequering on the grip and fore-end LOP 141/2". This gun is of the highest quality.

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Vikram

[Katana]

Interesting. But would pin fire .12 bore cartridges be available today?

[Vikram]

There are specialist suppliers in UK.

[TC]

I have seen and cradled a gun like this In Kolkata. It was there at N C Daw and Co years ago.

Very interesting weapon.

Thanks Vikram

TC

[Sathieshkumar]

NICE GUN ....

[Vikram]

Interesting. But would pin fire .12 bore cartridges be available today?

Katana,

Check what I found.

http://hlebooks.com/pinfire/cal16-01.htm


The complexity of loading these pinfire cartridges seems to be high. Nevertheless, fascinating. The link above provides a very clear pictorial depiction of the process.Do check it out.


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Vikram

[Katana]

Vikram,

Finally managed to read the entire lot! Bloody patient job if one was to attempt it! But interesting knowledge.

My father used to load his own shot shells and some of the nickel-brass cartridges are still with me. They required somewhat similar process with the exception of seating the primers. I remember him hunched over his work table measuring and pouring, pushing the wads with a circular motion press and stuff like that.