This gun is "Shithead Approved"...
Greg over at Shotgun Chronicle had a good post recently about Champlin Firearms, a really cool high-end gunshop here in Oklahoma, specifically the descriptions of the firearms for sale on the Champlin website, which tend toward the...highly descriptive...
From Greg's post
I love to visit the Champlin site. Besides being a sweet site to drool over some of the finest guns ever built, like this Purdey over under they also offer good info on guns and some exquisite snippets of sarcasm, like this one from a gun description.
“I believe the guy that installed this recoil pad drives a Volvo, likes warm flat beer and was breast fed until age 7; however the pad can be changed easily.”
Better still, they have a knack for finding cool guns that are interesting and very shootable. Check out this little Italian gun they have listed. What a nice little gun. Except the recoil pad that is…
Nice find, Greg, but you missed this one, man...
#70953, W. C. Scott & Son Makers London, England: A Boxlock 16 Bore Model 162 Made 1901 with 26" Damascus Extractor Barrels that some Shithead blued to make them look like steel barrels but they are British Nitro Proved with Rib Extension & Hidden Cross Bolt at .669 .003 & .011 (Skt.I & Skt.II), Wall thickness on the right barrel at .0295" and .0305" on the left barrel, 2 1/2" chambers, Nitro proved at 1 ounce, A single selective trigger that functions to select the right or left barrel moving the slide forward or rearward, Splinter forend, Open pistol grip stock at 14 1/4 x 1 9/16 x 2 13/16" over a 1" pad, 5 lbs. 14 oz.., 70% coverage of period scroll engraving, The bores are excellent to near excellent plus.
If you're ever in Enid, Oklahoma (and if you are, I'm sorry...) then a trip to Champlin Firearms is highly recommended. It occupies a distinctly nondescript (from the outside) ramshackle metal building at the Enid airport, but walk through the door and you know you're in a real gunshop. And the best part is, you are free, nay encouraged, to handle any of the guns in their inventory.
It's interesting, but I can speak from personal experience when I say it's also a bit terrifying to fondle a gun worth more than your house.
Damn, I like that one a lot. And seriously, who would blue damascus barrels?
ReplyDeleteRedoing a set of damascus barrels would be a fun project, but that gun is missing a trigger.