Show your double barrels

[Jbob]

I'll start with this little 20 gauge I've had stored back several years. Made between 1969 and 1978 it's a new in the box Ithaca SKB Model 280

[entropy]

Only one I own currently.

[Jbob]

Good Lord, never seen such a weapon before. Please tell me more ? Legal to own ? Looks like it would be a wrist breaker.

[Junk Yard Dog]

That's one of Cobray's derringer creations. Cobray made the 80's roar with their M11-9 and things like that pistol, they were part of the south Florida drug culture of the 80's after their M11's were popularized by TV shows like Miami Vice. You weren't a real drug kingpin unless you had a couple of M11's all chromed out. They sold semi auto M11-9 pistols and carbines, single and double barrel pistols, and everything could be had in kit form if you wanted to build it yourself.

[entropy]

Jim just about said it all. It's actually not as uncomfrotable to fire as you'd think. Rongo has shot it through the years. I bought it from DEDCAT many years ago. I load .45 LC, so I do load some light loads for plinkin' with it, but I have some Buck and Slugs I run through it once in a while. Small shot is useless through it, the rifling spreads it out fast. Sometimes it pops open when shot.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I have a lot of doubles, all gauges and eras, even muzzleloaders. Hammer guns, hammerless, sidelock, boxlock , twist and fluid steel barrels, coach guns and bird guns. Doubles have always been a weakness of mine and I have between 35-55 of them, I lose track. Here are two that just happen to be out and not stored away in cosmoline at the moment, I forgot about them under the bed. The American Gun Co is a 12 gauge full sidelock double exposed hammer gun from around 1895. It has steel barrels as opposed to Damascus twist so it's still a shooter if I wanted to use it. American Gun is just a trade name put on there by Crescent Firearms Company. For a fee they would put any name you wanted on there or none, these sold in hardware stores all over the country 1890-1910 and eventually the company became part of Stevens. The other gun, and it's a 12 gauge like the first, is a boxlock hammer gun, a bit unusual but Stevens would use that design into the 1930's, this one would be around 1900. The barrels are laminated or Damascus steel, the "stub twist" means the barrels were made using stubs of horse shoe nails, a very common steel scrap item at that time. The nails were made in Sweden out of what was considered the finest steel in the world , but in reality many countries were making fine steel . Box lock refers to the Anson & Deeley 1875 design that put the hammers and all the other lock parts inside the action rather on removable sideplates. This was a faster and cheaper way of making a double gun action but was opposed in that era because hunters wanted to see their guns hammers so they would know at a glance if they were cocked or not. As a compromise they just stuck the hammers on the outside of the boxlock action, still cheaper than making the sidelocks that required a lot of fitting. Being a twist barrel this is a wallhanger as over the century's corrosion can get between the layers of iron and steel causing weak spots. You can always tell a twist barrel by the wavy lines running down it. In the 19th century this sort of barrel was expensive and considered the strongest. As I bring them out I will display a few here now and then.

[Darryl]

Barkley side by side. (old wall hanger) Damascus barrel. Said (in the family) to be my great grandfathers, but I have no confirmation other then My Uncles say it certainly looks like his old shotgun and was last in possession of "his" Son (who was my Grandfather .....then to me). Was left to me by my Grandfather, But I never heard him say where it came from. My Dad didn't know either, but his older Brother did. So...who knows?????





Winchester Model 24
This is my Grandfathers shotgun from the early 40's. 20 ga. for small game. Also the shotgun my Father nearly killed his first wife with (before he changed his mind)!





Old CVA black powder kit SxS 32 cal.




I have two more....I can't find photos for and they are in the safes.

Dolk

[Jbob]

Here's a couple more I ran across tonight....

Remington Arms Co.



H. Richards

[Junk Yard Dog]

CVA double 12 bore that I don't think has ever been fired, I picked it up in a multi gun deal some years back

[Jbob]

I remember buying the revolvers kits to build as a kid and wanting one of those double barrels so bad. I was young and didn't have much to work with and used coffee to stain the wood. It would be another 20+ years before someone taught me how to load and shoot black powder but I liked working on them and there was no age limit to purchase kits back then.

[Junk Yard Dog]

The shotgun wasn't built from a kit, this was one of the finished ones CVA sold. Someone brought in a pile of rust that used to be an LC Smith 10 gauge today. The forend with takedown lever was missing, very bad shape, I offered fifty bucks and he is considering it, the locks are worth that much anyway.

[entropy]

That's a Winchester Model 24, Dolk. I had a WTF moment when I saw Remington 24, because I have wanted a Win 24 forever. They're ugly but like the Marlin Model 90, I like them.

[Jbob]

Here's a couple more doubles..

Oxford Arms



Nitro Hunter

[Junk Yard Dog]

I am working on this one and I am not even close to being done, careful cleaning of one small part at a time. I have another 20+ hours to go.

[ksbanker]

There it is! I was hoping we would get a peak at that one!

[millman]

Jim is that Winchester Damascus or fluid?

[Junk Yard Dog]

I have only started to clean the barrel but I think it might be fluid steel. Given it's time period I found that surprising but it could be I am just not seeing the swirls in the steel. I have to look at it in strong daylight once I clean it some more. Looks like clean tubes on the inside with an amazing amount of dust .

[Darryl]

That's a Winchester Model 24, Dolk. I had a WTF moment when I saw Remington 24, because I have wanted a Win 24 forever. They're ugly but like the Marlin Model 90, I like them.

You're absolutely right. I have no idea why I typed Remington.

Dolk

[Junk Yard Dog]

After hours of scrubbing the barrel is cleaning up nicely. It has to be Damascus, the information I have found is that twist steel was the only barrel available on these. The job was done so nicely that I can barely make out the lamination. This was Winchesters first shotgun, and it was expensive in it's day 1879-1884, it's a class A model and the quality shows, the company that later became Holland & Holland was one of the English outfits making these for Winchester. It's retired now, I will not fire anything with a twist barrel.

[millman]

Finally I found my pics. I took them and they went to some file, but I had no idea where. Oh well better late than never. Just 2 Spanish doubles from the late 60s-early70s. The little .410 is slightly better made than the 20 it is pictured with. The JC Higgens Mod 20 is just there to see the difference between 12-.410 proportions.