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S. J. Carr, London
Guns International #: 103268314 Seller's Inventory #:
Category: Shotguns - English Double - Shotguns - English
Seller's Information
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Seller: TST
Company: Maine-Made Best
Member Since: 6/15/20
State: Maine
Zip: 04572
Country: United States
Phone: (207) 790-2047
Number of Active Listings: 1
Total Number of Listings: 9
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: PayPal, Check
Description:
Here is a very nicely handmade, maintained and cased, London-made boxlock by S.J. Carr, a London retailer of new and used guns, with modern stock dimensions and chamber lengths. This would make an oustanding field and sporting clays gun.
I have included a 25-minute video posted to Youtube which attempts to show as much detail of the gun up close as possible, as well as a demonstration of the gun being fired at clays to show there are no faults mechanically. I have not edited the section when the gun is fired, it is one continuous take, so there can be no doubt of the gun's reliability.
The video can be found by going to Youtube and typing in: S.J. Carr Shotgun
The handling is superb, and the feel of the gun as it opens and closes, locks up, and recocks the lockwork and ejectorwork is one of true hand-made quality. This is a gun where every piece was hand fitted via smoke black to every other piece, rather than assembled from manufactured parts. This gun was no doubt made by the same London outworkers who completed guns for the "big-name" London makers, such as Churchills, Watson Brothers, etc. It has the same feel and fit and finish as that category of gun. This gun as many decades of future use in it.
The gun has been completely stripped, cleaned and lubricated, and inspected for mechanical faults, of which there are none. It has also been fired 100 times on clays to check for faults, and again, none detected. The stock head has also been inspected for deterioration due to oil ingress, and all is sound. It is ready for use. I have also included pictures of the internal action so that you can see the quality of construction. There is a slight gap the width of a piece of paper between the action back and stock head on the right-hand side (noted in a photograph below) and a very small piece of wood about 0.020" in size missing on the inletting of the fore-end escutcheon ( also noted in a photograph below). These are small trifling things, but worthy of mention by way of full disclosure. The barrel and furniture blacking is a deep, rich glossy black.
Please contact me if I can provide any additional information. I am happy to do so.
Barrel Length: 28"
DOM: 1965/66
LOP: 14.75" (including leather-covered butt pad
Cast Off: 3/16"
Drop at Comb: 1.5"
Drop at Heel: 2.5"
Chambers: 2.75"
Choke: Right-Cylinder; Left-1/4
Weight: 6 lb 10 oz
Proof Pressure: 3 1/4-ton Nitro
Bores at time of proof 0.729"/ Bores at present 0.730" Right/0.731" Left
Action: Anson and Deeley
Wall Thickness Right: 0.028"
Wall Thickness Left: 0.027"
Location of Proof: London
Price: $3,990.00
Shotgun Gauge: 12 Gauge
Manufacturer: S.J. Carr
Serial Number: 1001
Barrel Length: 28
Bore: .730 right/.731 left
Chambers: 2 3/4
Ejectors: Yes
Condition: Very Good
Metal Condition: Very Good
Wood Condition: Very Good
Bore Condition: Excellent
Action: Anson and Deeley
Triggers: Double
Stock: Walnut
Stock Cast: Off
Fore End: splinter
Butt Pad: leather covered
LOP: 14 3/4 including leather covered recoil pad
Rib: Concave game
Weight: 6lb 10 oz.
Manufacture Date: 1965/66
Chokes: Fixed
Choke Left: 1/4
Choke Right: Cylinder
Engraving: Rose and Scroll, full coverage
Extras: snap caps, cleaning rod, oiler, hand guard, etc.
Case: Leather and baize
Item Location: Maine
Proof:Nitro: Yes
Minimum Wall Thickness Left: 0.027
Minimum Wall Thickness Right: 0.028