The Southern California Arms Collectors Association did a display at the 1987 NRA convention in Reno, Nevada. The display included "what is believed to be the only American 4-bore hammerless double barrelled shotgun, made by Charles Edward Sneider, 214 W. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD. It has 38-inch barrels and weighs 28 1/2 pounds." Their handout goes on to say "it is chambered for a brass shell that can hold 22 grams (?) of powder and six ounces of shot." I suspect that should be drams and would be the load the gun held, 11 drams and 3 ounces in each barrel? In my years of doing a display at the MACA show at Timonium, I saw two or three 4-bore singles by Sneider come in.
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