All of the vintage North American doubles have their issues but while Alexander T. Brown's rotary bolt was a good idea, much of the rest of the hammerless L.C. Smith design was not. Read Dewey's assessment of them and you'd send them all down the river of commerce.
I own all the others, Parker, Fox (all three companies), Ithaca, Baker, Remington & Lefever and many of the more obscure makes Tobin, Baltimore Arms, the American Arms Co. Whitmore, Parry, etc., but no L.C. Smiths.
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