The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[Grantham Forester]

Thank you for the prompt and detailed reply. It is obvious that you know double guns, both from collecting but more to the point, from shooting them, and I surmise, shooting them a great deal. Perhaps I misspoke. His older Smith 10 has the first series square cornered barrel lug design. You are 100% correct about the 90% angle from the standing breech to the water table, or floor of the frame. I have seen a few very early Ithaca hammer guns with twist steel barrels that did not have a machined radius at that point, and you could see, with a 10X magnified, the spider webbed stress cracking on the metal areas.

I can ask him about fotos, but he does not have a computer nor Internet access, so I cannot promise that I could get them posted here. Again, thanks for the prompt response to my inquiry.