Hunter was looking for new ventures at the time and was planning to invest in a shotgun a neighbor named Harry Comstock was developing. Thus, in 1888, Smith sold his company to a Fulton, New York, railroad builder named John Hunter, Sr. Smith’s attention he had become enthralled with developing a new-fangled device called the typewriter. But, while the shotgun attracted well-heeled hunters, it failed to hold L.C. Smith shotgun was geared towards sportsmen who wanted the best and were willing to pay for it. Smith, which performs extremely well in the field, but doesn’t have the collectability of the original side lock.Ĭlearly, the L.C. In addition, a 12-gauge single-barreled trap gun was produced between 1917 and World War II.Ī double on ducks, taken with the Italian-made L.C. Smith grading system changed to reflect names like Field, Ideal, Olympic, Trap, Specialty, Eagle, Crown, Monogram, Premier, and De Luxe. For escalating Qualities and prices, you got progressively better grades of Damascus and, later, fluid steel barrels, more engraving, and better, more finely checkered wood. This greatly improved smoothbore was offered in a number of grades, or “Qualities,” as the company initially called them, ranging from 2 through 7 (or A to F and AA in subsequent catalogs) and priced from $55 up to $450, princely sums in the days of an average $16 weekly paycheck. Smith Ideal Grade was completely refurbished and brought back to life by Briley Manufacturing of Houston, Texas. Smith Hammer Gun” was introduced, in 1884, with much fanfare and success. Produced in 10- and 12-gauge, the new “L.C. Brown designed an exposed hammer sidelock double, which involved a sturdy “double cross-locking” rotary bolt, a strengthened barrel hinge, and hammer ears that dropped below the shooter’s line of sight when cocked. Brown (who went on to develop the Dunlop tire and other automotive inventions in later years). Fortunately, the entrepreneurial Smith had an inventive employee named Alexander T. Having married into a prosperous family, money wasn’t a problem for Smith-but success was. Smith found himself the sole proprietor of W.H. But this European-styled design wasn’t popular in America, and, by 1880, L.C. Baker, manufacturing and marketing Baker’s unique three-barreled drilling, which consisted of two side-by-side 12- or 10-gauge smoothbores over a.
Lyman Cornelius Smith had been in partnership with his brother, Leroy, and a neighbor, W.H. Smith-or “Elsie,” as this well-designed side-by-side was affectionately called. Only one firearms manufacturer emerged with the mechanical skills to produce an American hammerless sidelock, an elegant, sturdy shotgun that took the name of its creator, L.C. In America, names like Parker and Remington were giving the Union Jack a run for its money, but the hammerless versions were boxlocks, which became the norm.
Indeed, “best guns” such as Purdey and Holland & Holland set the tone for the classic gentleman’s sidelock of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. SMITHīy all accounts, the sidelock double-barreled shotgun belongs to the British. 50 Famous Firearms You've Got to Own: Rick Hacker's Bucket List of Guns (2015) THE L.C.
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