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A Mechanical Flood
Considering the outpour of inventive talent applied to the
British double barrel shotgun.
From the pages of the Double Gun Journal. Volume One, Issue 2 - Spring 1990
Written and Photographed by David J. Baker
It is truly a remarkable fact that, from the early 1850s when the British gun trade first showed any real interest in the breech-loading shotgun, up to the present day, there should be well over 1000 patents lodged with the British Patent Office covering some aspect of the double barrel breech-loading shotgun. The actual number of inventions this represents is debatable because many of the specifications cover not just variations on the main theme but entirely separate mechanisms as well; so the true total number of patented inventions could be more on the order of 3000. Then too we must realize that this is probably the “tip of an iceberg” — how many ideas never progressed beyond the sketch-on-the-back-of-an-envelope stage?
