What word am I looking for, Virgil?

[J-BAR #18287]

What is the proper name or term for the region of a side by side shotgun that is immediately to the left and right of the opening lever pivot? You know, those two kinda half-spherical masses that house the firing pins on a hammerless gun?

 

Thankee kindly.

[Bad Hand]

"Standing breach"?

[Boothill Bandit, SASS# 48598]

Recoil shield?

[Church Key, SASS # 33713]

Bad Hand has nailed it according to W. W. Greener; "Standing Breech."

[Pack Saddle Slim, SASS #73122]

Little round bumps.

[Doc Neeley]

I thought it was the Gee-haw-whimmy-diddler.

[Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355]

And on the face of the standing breach you may see some kind of insert that requires a 3-pronged tool to unscrew it. Those are called "whatever they are".

[Tom Bullweed]

You use a spanner wrench to tighten/loosen that recoil shield insert properly. They are custom but can be made with simple tools.

[Cabalero Chuck]

The "standing breech" as you are calling it contain a "box type lock" , I believe.

[Cheyenne Culpepper 32827]

yu meen tha thigamachiggie?

 

CC

[BLACKFOOT SASS #11947]

I think it is called the "stump swell".

 

Blackfoot

[J-BAR #18287]

I posted this question in several locations.

 

I think the "Standing Breech" term in Greener's book refers to the whole vertical block. It turns out that the part that gets engraved, those hemisphere thingies are "fences". See link:

 

 

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=190248&start=0

 

Just think how impressed your fellow competitors will be when you exhibit your new knowledge.

 

Thanks for your efforts, Pards, even the, ah...attempts...at humor....

[EE Taft]

I was gonna say cost-a-ma-rockies!

 

But I could be wrong.