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[Cory Rams]

I picked up a 1890’s Charles Daly SxS 10 Gauge about 20 years ago. I sent it to along with my buddy a few years ago along with a pair of Dixie gun works hammers. The gun was missing the left hammer and screw when I picked it up at a rummage sale. It was pretty rusty and seized up. I took it all apart years ago and polished it up getting everything working smoothly again. The existing hammer had been brazed for some reason. Where the screw goes into the side place it’s smooth with no threads for some reason like it had been stripped out or??? My buddy is a smith but hasn’t had time to mess with it and I told him I wasn’t in a hurry(and he dose my work for free) but I’m starting to get anxious to load up some black powder or Smokeless equivalent loads for turkey hunting. Been loading rifle as pistol ammo along with casting on and off for 20 years but no shotgun reloading yet. I bought some RST 2 7/8” 1 1/4 oz #5’s to try when he gets done with it and makes sure it’s safe to fire. Eventually I’d like to have the wood and metal restored. I’ve been saving hulls from my browning gold and figured I could cut a few hulls down and have fun loading some. The Dixie hammers are not an exact match but at least I’ll have a pair of matching hammers in it eventually. I gave up looking for the exact replacement hammers years ago...I don’t they they exist!

Don’t know much about it. It has “396” stamped on both the barrel and receiver.

https://i.imgur.com/JuO4EzB.jpg

[Dean Romig]

Dave Fjelline in southern California may be able to make a hammer and screw to match the original on the other side.






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[edgarspencer]

Dave Fjelline in southern California may be able to make a hammer and screw to match the original on the other side.

Dave's in Northern CA. Lincoln, to be exact.

[Dean Romig]

Beg your pardon everyone, I thought he was closer to San Diego - my mistake.





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[Garth Gustafson]

You’ll be surprised with Dave’s turnaround time. I sent him a hammer gun with a missing hammer last week and he just called to let me know it’s finished! I had sent him a pair of hammers from Peter Dyson in the UK. You might want to check out Dyson hammers as I found them to be closer to the original than Dixie hammers.

https://www.peterdyson.co.uk/acatalog/Centrefire___Pinfire.html

[Cory Rams]

I’m finally getting my gun back in a month and half. I picked up a pair of hammers from Dixie gun works. I traced the one existing hammer and emailed it to the Dixie Works gunsmith to match up with what they had. I sent my gun home with a buddy who operates and owns a guns smith shop and had the hammers sent to him. Cant wait to pull the trigger when it comes back. The only other stamping I could find on it was “FR”. I know Charles Daly was an importer and dod not produce firearms. Could the FR stand for Franchi or France?

[Cory Rams]

Update. I had the Dixie gun works hammers installed. I refinished the wood furniture and refinished the barrel. I was told on another forum my gun was produced in 1873. I’m working on finding load data currently. Picked up a lee loader, powder, primers, wads, shot cards, and will used once fired shells.

I’m getting there.

https://i.imgur.com/iwwPRXZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/YPeKnt6.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SXuKuyd.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wEriNkC.jpg

Number 5 RST’s work decent but I’d like a tighter pattern.

[edgarspencer]

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[Bill Murphy]

Congratulations on getting your hammer situation solved, but we would like to see pictures of the result.