8 ga tolley
 

i seen a 8 ga tolley for sale this evening its a very good looking gun with 36 inch barrels and weighs in at 13 plus pounds...only thing wrong i aint got the 8000 they want for it... the tolley is really a well built gun probably about as good as they get in england...oh well we ca not own them all but sure would like to try... charlie

must be they price 8 bores by the pound :rotf:

I have a friend that has a 12 gauge Tolley hammergun with fluid steel barrels .

The second saturday of dove season here in Virginia he was shooting the gun when the under rib on the gun let go .

Hence his barrels and my VHE 12 barrels are at Gaicamo's getting resoldered etc .

Was it a jones underlever?

I have a Tolley double rifle in 500 black powder express with a Jones underlever. The gun was refinished in England in the 70s and looks like new. It's a hammer gun with the powder charge engraved on the side of the action. Bores are perfect with the deepest rifling I have ever seen on a gun. I believe Tolley was a Birmingham manufacturer.

Craig;
That would'nt happen to be Bill Sanford's gun, would it? That man could flat out shoot that Tolley.

Yes sir !

I was at his dove field the second saturday of the VA season . He was about 50 yards from me and came walking by saying he had a malfunction !

I assume his Tolley should be back and running in a few weeks I hope . As well as my Parker !

If the truth was known, Tolley made the guns or at least a lot of the parts, for most of the big bore hammer stuff that came out of the UK no matter the makers name.

I owned a Tolley hammer gun for a bit, sold it to a friend in England about 10 years ago. A good gun, very plain, but very solid.


DLH

eldon it was a top lever gun.. charlie

reminds me of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJS8PBqdF8g

thats a good one old boy really scrubs them barrels...looks to be the twin to the 8 ga tolley i ve been looking at

there was one in cabelas gun library 3 years ago for 9k. if I had that to spend id get one of the 8 gauge parkers from pugsguns. they have a 8 gauge parker hammer gun for 7900$ for about 2 years now

from an article in a recent issue of "The Field"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...psfeb61591.jpg

priceless words and thought s i think this is how all 4 and 8 and 10 bore gun lovers feel...thanks for the words....charlie

results from an auction in London this past week

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20806/lot/62/

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20806/lot/63/

Am I missing something? I don't see the results of that auction. They certainly are great guns.

You aint the only one. Saw some nice champain bottles.

hhmm- i see the guns and estimate - I assume you need an account to see the selling price, i looked from the phone to see if it was because i had already opened the link - but see it there as well

http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src...&autosizefit=0

Lot 62S58
A fine 8-bore (3¼in) hammer wild-fowling gun by J. & W. Tolley, no. 6731

Lot Details
A fine 8-bore (3¼in) hammer wild-fowling gun by J. & W. Tolley, no. 6731
Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding backlocks, percussion fences, border engraving, some hardening-colour, figured stock with butt-plate, the damascus barrels (shortened) with filecut-rib engraved J & W. Tolley, Maker's 1 Conduit St, Regent St, London, W.
Weight 11lb. 14oz., 13¾in. pull (13 5/8in. stock), 32½in. barrels, both approx. cyl., 3¼in. chambers, Birmingham nitro reproof

est.
£4,000 - 6,000
US$ 6,500 - 9,800

Lot 63S58

http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src...&autosizefit=0

Lot Details
An 8-bore hammer wild-fowling gun by J. & W. Tolley, no. 7157
Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding-backlocks, foliate-scroll engraving, well-figured stock, semi-pistolgrip with fluted horn cap, recoil-pad (perished), the damascus barrels engraved J & W Tolley Makers, 1 Conduit St., Bond St., London, W. with matt game-rib
Weight 11lb. 14oz., 14 3/8in. pull (13 3/8in. stock), 34in. barrels, both approx. ¾ choke
In its canvas case (handle missing)

est
£4,000 - 6,000
US$ 6,500 - 9,800

lovely old gal s i hope there always cared for deeply...charlie