Need info on shotgun

[Silver Rings SASS # 27466]

Picked up a new main match shotgun at a gun show Saturday and would like to find out about it before I load it up with powder. The barrels are 19" and it is suppose to be a 10 ga.

 

The only markings on the receiver is "Scott & Son". Under the barrel are a number of stamps.

 

In the pictures you can see you the stamps.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Silver Rings

[Abilene, SASS # 27489]

Main match, you say?  Hope you aren't planning to load it on the clock.

[Garrison Joe, SASS #60708]

Sorta looks like a Belgian "Guild Gun" made for sale under a "trade name" of Scott.   The large number of proof stamps indicates at least it was manufactured across the pond, probably around 1900-1920.

 

good luck, GJ

[Silver Rings SASS # 27466]

I found out it's a W.&C. Scott & Son shotgun, made in the UK probably before 1859. I didn't look up the other proof marks other than the tower which is the W.&C. Scott & Son's mark.

[Nostrum Damus SASS #110702]

I imagine if you know enough to buy that gun, you probably know all of this already.  Make sure you understand all of the proof marks -- they (and the numbers) will tell you the pressure that the barrels were proofed to at the time of manufacture and at any subsequent re-proofing time.  They may or may not be usable with modern smokeless powder.  Also, the chambers may be 2 3/4" if they have been modified post-original manufacture; otherwise they are almost certainly 2 1/2" chambers.  Here's a good start for deciphering the proof marks:

http://www.nramuseum.org/media/940944/proofmarks.pdf

[Silver Rings SASS # 27466]

You didn't notice this is a percussion shotgun. I have been digging into the proof marks and the history of W.&C. Scott & Son. It's been a fun project.

 

I won't be using it for CAS. I would not fire it at all. I bought it to use when I give tours at the old west museum I volunteer at. I may cut the barrels down further to fit the part I want it to play.

 

SR