Charles Moore shotgun

[TFoley]

@Feltwad - Sir, if I come over and paint your fences can I shoot some of your beautiful guns?

 

[JCKelly]

Sir is that a grip safety if so does it work a underside view would have given me a better answer or is it a wall mounting peg
Feltwad

It is a wall mounting brass peg. Nothing fancy about this gun, it just kills small game. Or did so, when it & I were both a half-century younger. I bought it from a family in Sussex Co., Delaware about 60-ish years ago.

 

[jonathan hawkin]

Yes I know about Cape guns and paradox guns.

It was not just gentlemen that used these guns and I don't mean unsavoury characters by that.
Ordinary folk had many a sxs. Were coastal guns sometimes used to take seal? Did a farmer or gamekeeper or an agent take a deer with one? Were any ever marketed as good with ball etc etc.

It seems odd that in the UK going back to the late 1700's and forward there seems little to no mention of using ball to hunt anything except for in Africa. Was deer still being hunted with hound and lance? Archery?
I find it hard to believe that when the sxs started getting popular no one wondered how a ball would shoot from them.
Is there any documentation about it?
I often have asked Mr Feltwad questions, especially with Mr Feltwad telling me and others he is an expert of world fame alas, this knowledge or indepth discussion does not materialise. Some of us have no idea who he is??
Maybe you do, or someone else does. It would be nice to actually know the credentials behind the man. Can you help?

I can second this, have shot with feltwad at national and local clay shoots, and is always knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly, i have also won competitions with shotguns acquired from him.

 

[Britsmoothy]

I can second this, have shot with feltwad at national and local clay shoots, and is always knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly, i have also won competitions with shotguns acquired from him.

That is fantastic.
Thanks for that.