Model V
Since their creation, Darne gun's are one of the most famous
names of arm's manufacturer in Saint-Etienne FRANCE. Thanks to its simplicity,
elegance and resistance, the model V established the principle and the notoriety
of fixed barrel guns.
It's main characteristic is a sliding-breech activated by a key-lever, easily
open with two fingers to load it. A simple forward motion with the palm of hand,
lock the mechanism smoothly. The sliding-breech is held aligned to the barrels
by compression. Heaspaces are extremely tight for a better range and the lowest
recoil, due to convergent obturator disks {Darne Patent).
Percussion is ensured by two arming nuts acting on sears top. The security of
this mechanism is reinforced by a double safety triggers preventing accidental
firing caused by a shock. Fine adjustment of the firing pins allow smoother
firing. The safety, activated by a button on side of breech, command sears in
cocking position, is safer that usual safety triggers.
The impossibility to keep fingers on triggers during loading action is
definitively safer. As a matter of fact the only way to load a Darne Model V is
to lock the breechblock by pushing the key lever, with a natural motion of the
hand.
All Darne guns come with an automatic and selector ejectors. They are composed
by two classic extractors and by two hooks pulling out fired shells, at the end
of breech-block course.
Darne barrels are bored in special steel tubes, polished in length, soft
soldered at low temperature to preserve steel structure and covered with several
bronze coatings. So, these barrels have a high ballistic efficiency. Three types
of ribs can be proposed; decreasing rib also called "plume" rib, straight rib or
inversed tiles rib.
Stock and fore-end are selected walnut, dried in ours workshops, are made by
hand, with half-pistol or english straight-grip with checkering pattern. Instead
of standard fore-end, a beavertail type is available.
Darne Model V is an outstanding class gun, combining efficiency with safety.
Sample Models:
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Model V Hors Serie - 12 16 20 gauge and 410 magnum, "Gravure fond creux" |
Contact Geoffroy Gournet at 610-559-0710 or email darneUSA@yahoo.com for more information.
