Stoeger Coach Gun - What Model Does It Replicate?

[Skinny Preacher 66418]

Stoeger Coach Gun - What Model Does It Replicate?

[Major 2]

nothing really..it is their Upland double cut to coach gun (actually SASS minimum length) a reasonable profile passing at 50 feet for casual observer

[Skinny Preacher 66418]

Were there any hammerless models pre 1899?

[Trap]

  Yes there were hammerless SxSs pre-1899, some even had ejectors.

[Skinny Preacher 66418]

Who made them? Were they a common find in the late 1800s west?

[Frenchie]

I know Parker Brothers made them, but I've no idea how common they were in the West.

[Sawdust Jim]

Colt made their mod. 1883 hammerless through 1895, but as Frenchie said about the Parker, who knows how many made it west. The Stoeger doesn't look much like the Colt, though.

Jim

[Arcey]

It matter?

Mine is pushin' 11 years of SASS abuse. Used when I got 'er. If ya kin find sumthin' better, grab it quick. 

[Four-Eyed Buck]

The English came out with a hammerless design somewhere around 1875. Imports were here before American companies started making them.....................Buck

[Skinny Preacher 66418]

I did alittle online research and found several different models...many the English look to them. The stoeger doesn't seem to replicate any, but it shore is popular in CAS (i have two).

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

During the percussion era, most shotguns were muzzle loaders, just as rifles and pistols were.

The earliest breech loading shotguns were indeed English, but they were generally very expensive, beyond the means of most average shooters. The first affordable, breech loading shotgun made in this country were probably those made by the Parker Brothers of Meriden CT. Parkers started being made around 1866. They were much more affordable than the English shotguns of the time, and I suspect many of them made their way out west, being recognized as the practical, affordable guns that they were.

Barber & LeFever of Syracuse NY is generally credited with the first hammerless double around 1878. Unlike modern hammerless doubles this gun utilized external cocking levers. LeFevre formed his own company in 1880 and patented a modern style hammeless gun, that automatically cocked the internal hammers in 1883.

The Stoeger coach gun really is not a replica of anything, it is a modern hammerless SXS with short barrels.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Skinny Preacher 66418]

nah, there ain't nuthin wrong with the stoeger. i really like mine. very well constructed. i was wondering if it might replicate anything of the era.