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Unread 03-03-2015, 04:51 PM   #1
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Some photos of the action of a Quality C. Top action hammer. The action is nice, the Bernard barrels need work but are not cut, the stock is highly figured but dark European walnut and a new forend will need to be made. The stock is being refinished and will be really nice. Skeleton butt.

This is a gun worth restoration and it will be done correctly.

On a related issue, a machinist of small parts has asked if there is a small part that sometimes needs replacement that he could supply. I'm thinking check hooks, particularly since they are all the same size and occasionally break. I keep an extra in my travel gunsmith kit. Suggestions from readers would be appreciated.
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Wow! Just wow.
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Looking forward to the 'after' pictures of this great C.
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Looks like I need a refresher course in identifying hammer guns vs hammerless guns.
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Maybe that machinist could make hammers.
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Unread 03-04-2015, 08:09 AM   #6
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Bruce I love the dog and fence on the bottom. It's a split rail fence. My fence I think was a solid affair, almost a stockade.
Does that make 7 known C grade hammer guns with Bernard's?

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Boy I sure went stupid there didn't I ? I corrected the text but the title, once set, cannot be edited.

You all are correct of course. For the uninitiated, CH refers to a hammerless gun ( internal hammer), whereas C means external hammer.

George, I think you have the count right. Should be seven known. This one is pretty neat, with the split rail fence. With the D grade guns and lower, the engraving has little variance, but with the C's and above, the first thing you do is see what is in the engraving. Makes them interesting. I would not be surprised if there were at least several more C's still extant and not generally known to the collecting community. Maybe some are good condition, others not so.
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Bruce you are not stupid. The designation C vs. CH is stupid.
It would have made more sense if C was the "hammerless" and CH was C with hammers. But since the outside hammers came first, we are stuck. And of course the newer guns are NOT hammerless; the hammers are hidden.

Can you tell us the SN?
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This one is owned by a turnip farmer friend who has to have a good year at the roadside vegetable stand to pay for the work, but I will get the SN sometime.

Another farmer in Illinois is sharpening his axe to whittle out the forend.
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How do we know which seven we are counting? The book calls for 75. It's hard to believe that only seven are in our group.
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