Greener GP

     Notes: This is an old single-barrel shotgun based on the old British Martini rifle.  The original manufacturer, WW Greener and Company, went out of business long ago, and the design was bought by Webley.  Though the shotgun was introduced in 1900, it was still being manufactured on a small scale in Britain well into the 1990s.  It is still being made in the Philippines.  The operating lever is under the stock, and bolt opens in typical rolling block style.  Spent cases are ejected automatically when the bolt is opened.  The Greener GP is said to kick like a mule, and it is a very long weapon, though light for its size.

I. Hollis & Sons 12-Bore

     Notes: This is an old side-by-side 12 gauge shotgun designed at the beginning of the 20^th century and sold for about 25 years.  Examples of these guns are valuable antiques, but they are also still fully functional and can even be used today as sporting weapons, so excellent is their construction.  The gun uses a fancy English walnut stock with a Prince of Wales grip, a blued barrel cluster, case-color hardened action, and side plates with engraving.  The barrels are a full 30 inches, with both barrels having Full chokes.  It is designed specifically to fire very heavy lead shot, and can fire most types of 12 gauge shot rounds available today.  It’s a bit heavy for this type of shotgun, but is very well-balanced and easy to wield.  The grip is checkered.  The action is a box lock with a substantial crossbolt.

Lancaster 4-Barrel

     Notes: More fully named the Charles Lancaster Four-Barrel Hammerless Game Shotgun, this weapon was designed for fowling in a time when semiautomatic and pump-action shotguns were not so much a thing.  As you might guess, this shotgun has four barrels, which are fired using a rotating internal hammer, with the upper left barrel firing first, the upper right barrel fifing second, the lower right barrel firing third, and finally the lower left barrel, assuming the shooter does not manually index a certain barrel.  The trigger guard contains two triggers, with the rear trigger indexing a barrel (and indexing sequencing done in the order indicated); one then pulls the front trigger, which is serrated for grip (the rear trigger is larger and more curved) to fire the shotgun.  The Lancaster 4-Barrel is chambered for 2.75-inch 20-gauge shells; I have not been able to find out whether Charles Lancaster made any of these shotguns in other chamberings. Barrels are 28.25 inches. The stock is of oil-finished walnut and is of the traditional drop-stock type.  The fore-end is short, just enough for a non-firing hand. Sights consist only of a front bead.  Behind the barrel block at the top of the wrist is a breaking switch.

     The Lancaster 4-Barrel is an altogether rather rare weapon.

Trulock & Harriss 12 Gauge

     Notes: These are old shotguns (often around 100 years), but such is the craftsmanship of the weapons that they are perfectly functional and useable today.  It is a side-by-side double-barreled shotgun, in 12 gauge but with short chambers of only 2.5 inches.  It is a classic British game gun, with a straight, slender wrist design and a stock of fancy English walnut.  It uses a box lock, but has no ejectors or extractors of any kind.  The side plates are engraved.  The gun has double triggers.  One barrel has a quarter (an old measurement corresponding to somewhere between Skeet and Improved Cylinder) choke, and the other has a Full choke.  They are 30 inches long.  The weapon has a top-tang safety and the metalwork is finished in blue enamel.  Most of these guns were originally made for blackpowder loads, but have been modified for modern propellant.