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Hi Paco, 'CrossEyed' = the right barrel shooting left of the target and the left to the right of it, in this (my) case at 50 m. In fact, when the barrels are soldered perfectly parallel together, the effect of the recoil AND the deformation of the outside of the barrel (more elastic than the...

Hi GG505, Haven't ever seen such an impressive set of Paradox(like) tools! The serial-number on the mould not being a Paradox-number, do you know the make of the gun it was made for? Having two 12-bores Paradox, I'm interested if the price is right, but exporting US-France might be a problem...

Ola Paco, Sorry to hear of this Spanish legislation depriving you of the possibility of reloading yourself! What about your ’armero’? A Paradox being particularly peculiar with his ammo, I’m afraid that no present factory stuff will do: first you need to have the correct dimensions of the...

Ola Paco, Congrats with your 1910 16-bore Paradox. If you have not done so already, you can ask H&H for an official certificate / provenance, they are fortunately once more co-operative and indeed very kind after the take-over by Beretta. (provided you're ready to pay the approx. 75 GBP fee)...

As you would have guessed, 'providence' should of course be PROVENANCE. In my opinion always the first reflex after acquiring a firearm of one of the great gunmakers should be to try to get provenance. May cost a bit (or a bundle) but it makes the gun so much more interesting.

If 'rigbymauser' has been so fortunate as to acquire this perfect cased Martini Lancaster, I should add the suggestion to mail to Lancaster for providence. Apart from the DB smoothbore in the pic I posted (with another pic attached), that belonged to an Indian Maharajah, I've been able in the...

Hi, it’s been a while since you posted this SB Lancaster oval bore. I came across your post when ‘googling’ Lancaster “oval bore” and “wraps”, for a 1873 DB Lancaster cf 14 (yes, fourteen) bore DB rifle smoothbore 2nd patent. The provenance I got from Lancaster mentions “1½ in. WRAPS shell ball...

If you're so fortunate to get yourself a Paradox or the like, you can have a bullet mould made by https://accuratemolds.com/ . (design in Graeme Wright). My advice would be to very accurately measure the bore (3-point digital), and have a mould made exactly bore size. (The replica alu-brass mold...

Well, if you like antique guns and if you have time to visit a museum with perhaps some guns in it, you might want to check on a double typical S-A phenomenon: the Cape Gun (or Cape Rifle) : one bore smooth, the other rifled. Quite some of them in the percussion era had notchless sights as in...

Continued and close Some years later, a best H&H 10-bore was mentioned in the catalogue of this same auction house. As this gun was next in serial number to my other 10-bore, yet completely different, I had to have it, after all, I already had the double page in the Number Book … (well, if...

Baker and Lake having announced in their book a Volume 2, I got in touch with Mr David Baker, who referred me to his co-author Mr Roger Lake, who was to write this 2nd volume. It was Roger Lake who informed me that the first owner was not ‘Framers’ but Captain J. C. Francis, Senior Instructor op...

It was not my intention to start a serial, but I was advised -thanks again Jerome!- to keep my first couple of posts short one: spam prevention. Yet I have no doubt the same objective as the members of the Paradox board: preserving for future generations as many of the only 1463 made (plus some...

I found this forum ‘googling’ for ‘paradox’. Let me start with a confession: I’m no big game hunter. There are no rhinos and lions anyway here in Burgundy, France (although lots of wild boar and deer roaming my back-garden, and even an increasing number of -highly protected- wolves are feasting...