What goes better with a single action Sixgun....

Years ago, I wandered into Bing and Bob's Sporting Goods in Havre, MT to look around. There was an old SxS on the rack with mule ear hammers. It was an ancient Stevens with fluid steel barrels in 12 ga. I bought it of course because I had recently seen  A Stranger in town. It had been a guard gun on the stage that ran from Zortman to Havre to take gold bullion to the railhead. I make it at just about 1900. Havre didn't have a new car dealership until 1947, for perspective. The barrels are 19", and, of course, it's cylinder bored. It worked great on Hungarian Partridges. They always get up right under your feet and fly straight away about two feet off the ground. I'll post photos tomorrow.
Mike

I picked this one up this summer to go with the many "Social" shotguns we have it will eventually be a "trench gun". I normally would never alter an original gun but this one is a "Frankengun" with two unmatched, but closely numbered halves.

 

...it's got a full barrel. I see a lot of those old (95's?) that farmer Brown cut a few inches off the muzzle and put a big ol' vari-choke on it.

I've got a "Western  Field"  (Mossberg 500) 20 ga with a "dial-a-duck" choke on it that is pretty handy around the place when I don't want to risk a ricochet shooting a varmint. Say a opossum gets between the house and the horse pasture. Open up the choke when the quail are around. "Farmer Brown" might have something there.
That particular '97  is headed for a conversion to "trench gun" anyway.

Here is my good, old Stevens 225 12 ga. It's the one I referenced above as a stage coach guard gun. It is very light and handy. If I had a hair on my but, I would use it at the annual invitational sporting clays event in Tupelo. It's one of those guns that mount and point naturally without any effort or thought. Think I paid the outrageous sum of $25 for it in 1968.

Fetch my Greeners, Sam.

At first, it would fire both barrels at once. Painful for subject as well as object. I disassembled it and found adjustments for each trigger. Much sweeter now.

Mike

Wow! OMG, that is sweet. What a piece of history. And the perfect "model"for what the new manuf. types are making to remember that era. It's the real deal.
Speaking of Greeners (and that was a great movie!), I spotted one on GunBroker the other day. SXS 10 ga. Greener that was Wells Fargo marked (Seller indicated uncertainty as to the authenticity of the WF markings). Had a cracked wrist, bound with brass wire. Nicely engraved too, they were looking for around 2K. Nice plain 12ga Remington 1889 SXS hammer coach gun (circa 1889-1890) just sold for  $500. I should probably start into some vintage firearms at some point (like I need yet another very expensive hobby!).