Shotgun Technicana

by McIntosh, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780892725526
• ISBN10: 0892725524
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Down East Books

Summary

All of us who like to examine, handle, and hunt with fine double shotguns like to think we know something about these objects of our admiration and desire. Yet reading even the first few chapters of Shotgun Technicana will open a world that most of us only suspected lay beneath the fine checkering or the multihued case-hardening.

Here, longtime friends and colleagues Michael McIntosh and David Trevallion, two of the nation's foremost experts on shotguns, have gathered, sorted, and refined five years of their acclaimed columns from Shooting Sportsman magazine. They have included additional photographs, some new text, and updated diagrams.

Starting with a section on locks and actions and moving down to such crucial minutiae as spring fabrication and selection, the authors explain with extra-ordinary clarity and in great detail just how a side-by-side works, how today's designs evolved, and how both modifications and repairs should be handled.

Author Biography

David Trevallion was born in London in 1938, three hundred yards from James Purdey & Sons. He fired a gun for the first time at the age of nine, on a farm in Gloucestershire. At fifteen, he was apprenticed at the Purdey factory, where he worked under veteran stockmaker William O'Brien. Six years later, having completed his apprenticeship, David became a full-fledged stockmaker at Purdey's. In June 1963, he submitted his master piece to the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers and was admitted to the Freedom of the Company. David remained at Purdey's until 1964, when he emigrated to the United States. He soon founded Trevallion Gunstocks in Eau Gallie, Florida, subsequently moving the business to Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cape Neddick, Maine, where it has been located since 1986. Michael McIntosh has written an impressive number of books on fine firearms, natural history, and wildlife art. Having served as gun-review editor at Shooting Sportsman from 1988 to 1996, he is now the magazine's shooting editor and coeditor of the "Technicana" column. An internationally recognized shooting instructor, wingshot, and firearms expert, Michael also contributes regularly to Sporting Classics, Gun Dog, Wildlife Art, and The Double Gun Journal. He lives in South Dakota

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. V
Foreword	p. VII
Locks and Actions
The Sideplate Lock	p. 1
Mr. Beesley's Action, Mr. Purdey's Gun	p. 9
The Holland & Holland Action	p. 15
Sometimes a Great Notion	p. 19
Self-Openers	p. 25
Easy-Openers	p. 35
Stocks
A Matter of Proportion	p. 39
Give Us a Break	p. 47
Losing Your Grip	p. 53
The Butt Transplant	p. 59
A Leather-Covered Butt	p. 63
Barrels
Unraveling Rivelling	p. 71
Forcing Cones	p. 75
Dent-al Work	p. 81
Mechanisms
Top Fasteners	p. 87
The Southgate Ejector	p. 95
Anson Latch, Deeley Latch	p. 101
Mechanical Single Triggers	p. 109
Inertia-Shift Single Triggers	p. 117
Gunmaking
Protocol at Purdey's	p. 123
Of Time and the Workbench I	p. 135
Of Time and the Workbench II	p. 141
Noses and Notches	p. 147
A Celebration of Springs	p. 153
For the Want of a Pin	p. 161
Odds and Ends
Gun Words	p. 169
British Bore Sizes, Old and New	p. 175
Short Takes	p. 181
Index	p. 189
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