Are these any good?

gjshaw

September 17, 2011 10:03

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=251430326

Does anybody have any info on this gun first hand? I am interested in the rifling in the bore to make the wad spin. I hear they only made them for a couple of years and if they are so good then why not keep making them? I am interested in this gun but don't know enough about it to buy it for that price. Any info will be appreaciated.

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  nmyers

  September 17, 2011 12:35

  Never heard of it. The "spinning" business makes no sense to me; because of their low density & flat shape, I can't see how wads would spin in the barrel. I sure can't see how that would increase the dispersion of lead shot.
  
  Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the higher the starting price of auctions, the more the photos are out of focus.
  
  Neal

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  11b6r

  September 17, 2011 14:19

  In my limited experience, rifling DOES spin the wad. It DOES make the shot disperse. Usually with a honking great hole in the middle of the pattern. The original Paradox guns were made to shot really big slugs for really big animals, before the advent of the Nitro Express cartridges.

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  machine gun moran

  September 18, 2011 06:47

  I think 11b6r is right. A muzzle device has been made available for some .45 Colt/.410 guns, which incorporates straight rifling to arrest the spinning of a shot charge in order to avoid extreme dispersion.

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  Txs

  September 18, 2011 09:59

  quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
  In my limited experience, rifling DOES spin the wad. It DOES make the shot disperse. Usually with a honking great hole in the middle of the pattern.agreed.
  
  Firing shot through a rifled barrel results in a 'donut' pattern.

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  nononsense

  September 18, 2011 11:34

  gjshaw,
  
  "A Paradox rifle is a gun made with the front two inches (or so...) of the barrel rifled, intended to be used as both rifle and shotgun. Invented by Col George Vincent Fosbery VC in the late 19th century, it was thus named because of the "paradox" implicit in the design, being neither a true smoothbore gun nor a true rifle.
  
  Holland & Holland are of course the worlds most famous manufacturer of the Paradox rifle, and we are pleased to hear that they have started to produce a Paradox rifle again, and The Hull Cartridge Company are going to make the ammunition."
  
  
  
  Best.

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