Charles Daly Hammer 10ga - A Crying Shame

[J.B. Books]

I went back to the KTP today and returned the ROTA 10ga Skeet Gun (see other thread).

I had this Daly Hammer 10ga on hold and I looked at it more closely, much to my surprise it is not polished, it is a plated gun (I assume nickel plated). The receiver, trigger guard, steel butt plate and forend pin assembly all plated. So it is possibly all original however the barrels may have been redone???? Chambers are 2 7/8". There were no stampings of HAL or a crown over crossed pistols indicating it was a "Linder" Daly. Serial number is close to 200 and from what little information I can glean from the web this is probably a pre 1880 gun given the forend pin and made by Sauer but I don't know that. The KTP had no way to measure a 10ga bore (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) so Scott is going to let me borrow his bore gauge tomorrow and I will return to the KTP and measure it up. I didn't think I would have a hammer gun but it is nice old gun and it is a 10ga plus I have a large credit that almost covers the asking price burning a hole in my pocket.

PS. While there one of their employees showed me a twist steel single barrel hammer 8 gauge. It had just come in and he bought it. What a beast!

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

God I love KTP.
Great find and best of luck on the bores.

[Bindlestiff]

Here are a couple of links to the KTP for those that never get to Maine.... Interesting store and a large selection of new and used guns:

http://www.kitterytradingpost.com/

http://www.ktpguns.com/

[J.B. Books]

A few more pictures of the Daly 10ga hammer gun below. I stopped down to the KTP yesterday to measure it up. Subtracting ID from OD I came up with about .115 just ahead of the chamber and about .050 at the muzzle. Bores were .777, choke is almost non existent and what is there is right at the very tip, maybe .007. Cut barrels?????? or manufactured when choke was new and novel???? Anyway it's a nice gun but to my line of thinking a 10ga should be able to reach out and touch them and I don't see jug choking it or god forbid choke tubing it so I passed it up.

While I was there I saw a Remington 1900 12ga leaning in the corner with no tag. It's a KE grade, fluid steel 80% blue and working ejectors, 30" F&M, screws never turned, shootable dimensions. Checkering was all there except for a shiny coat of laquer or shellac which was also been applied to the receiver (very yellow). When I asked about the gun the clerk that was there said he liked Remingtons, set aside for himself, mentioned it was a great gun and less than $300. Then he said he shouldn't buy it because he is paying off a Parker he bought. I offered to relieve him of his anxiety and the Remmy followed me home instead of the Daly

Here's some pics of the Daly:

[charlie cleveland]

were the remington pictures pete...you boiught a bargan in thar remy.. charlie

[Stepmac]

What at interesting shotgun! The original owner must have had it plated. It was common to do that to pistols as a rust preventative. I've seen a few plated rifles. But that shotgun is just amazing!

[Dean Romig]

I stopped at KTP Saturday afternoon on my way to the lake and took a look at several small bore Parkers, the big Daly and a sweet little 12 bore "Linder" Daly. probably a whisker under 7# with 28" barrels, wonderful engraving and fabulous wood! What a pretty gun... even if it is British.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I stopped at KTP Saturday afternoon on my way to the lake and took a look at several small bore Parkers, the big Daly and a sweet little 12 bore "Linder" Daly. probably a whisker under 7# with 28" barrels, wonderful engraving and fabulous wood! What a pretty gun... even if it is British.

entschuldigen Sie bitte,??? British?

[Dean Romig]

Eh??

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Eh??

I would have sworn the Charles Daly Linders were Prussian

And as you say, not all German guns were heavy Drillings, they made some great light bird guns, the metric barrels come out to about 27 1/2 inches, in a light twelve or a sixteen they can be sweet in the grouse woods.

and they could turn that heavy game scene engraving to the topic at hand when they had a mind to.