My little Dougall is a pretty little lightweight 12ga. 26", v little choke in cut bbls. 6# even. SG. Ejectors. Total redo. Very whippy little gun. Gorgeous dark wood w/checkered butt. Dimensions are a bit high for me so I rarely shoot it. Should just pass it on. Not sure what a lockfast action is but it seems a standard type mechanism. Made in London right around the time Mr Dougall passed away - maybe 1895-96, I think.
This shell sticking thing is pretty common, I think. All you have to do to test it is to stick the rim of a shell into the recess backwards and rotate it. Sometimes they won't go into the recess at all or if they do it will be tightly and your problem is at least figured out. Win AA's are by far the most inconsistent shells I've checked. STS are better. My guns with the issue will shoot old paper shells forever with no issues. It's the poorly made ammo pure and simple. I have a Clymer rim recess reamer for 12ga and used it on the Dougall, which fixed it for good. I haven't done the DH12 because, for whatever reason, the breeches are not orthogonal to the bore axis. When I put the reamer into the chamber the cutters do not hit all the way around the rim at the breech. If I were to ream the recesses part of them would be too deep by the time I got the other part reamed out and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Sounds odd I know but that's how it goes in. There's a pilot bushing on the reamer shaft that seats down in the chamber and dictates how the reamer aligns and it just doesn't seem to align evenly. I had no trouble reaming the Dougall.
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