Greenier ???

abcguns2

July 10, 2012 15:58

What was these guns ???

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  Hawk Carse

  July 10, 2012 16:00

  What guns? I don't see a picture or description.
  Just going by name? I never heard of a Greenier. Maybe a cheap knockoff of a Greener.

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  hillbille

  July 10, 2012 17:17

  I allways thought it was a generic term for a double barrelled twin hammer shotgun. something about only a greenhorn fires both barrells?????

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  Hawk Carse

  July 10, 2012 20:50

  No.
  W.W. Greener is an old line British gunmaker, been around for maybe 140 years.
  There used to be a lot of fakes with imitation trademarks misspelled or something. Maybe that is what his Greenier is. Or maybe the op misspelled it and has a real Greener.

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  11b6r

  July 11, 2012 05:08

  W.W. Greener also made the "Greener Police Gun". Shotgun that fired an unsual stepped body shot shell- could only use that ammo, and that ammo could only be used in the Greener. Intended to keep guns "out of the wrong hands". Like Parker and Westley Richards, a lot of companies played on the popularity of the name.

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  Txs

  July 11, 2012 06:28

  If what you have is actually marked G-r-e-e-n-i-e-r or simply 'Greener' instead of W.W.Greener accompanied by the full array of British proof marks, it's a knockoff.
  
  This company both designed and manufactured high quality shotguns, with a strong indicator of this being that the production of fakes actually became an industry within itself.
  
  Due to a combination of factors - with a primary one being their lax courts - Belgian gunmakers were particularly known for this and the quality of these guns is highly questionable.
  
  If what you have is a counterfeit, I wouldn't view it as a shooter. For safety's sake, it would be a wallhanger only.

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