identify a gun from a pic
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Dfariswheel
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It appears to be an American muzzle loading percussion rifle.
Who made it is impossible to tell from the photo, and since a lot of these were hand made, even with a good photo it might not be identifiable.
Who made it is impossible to tell from the photo, and since a lot of these were hand made, even with a good photo it might not be identifiable.
The picture almost certainly has been flipped. That is usually attributed to a reversed negative, but I have recently learned that reversal is a result of the old time photographic processes, which didn't use negatives as such. That seems to be the explanation for the famous "left handed" Billy the Kid photo and probably the same is true with this picture which could well be from the same or an earlier era.
Assuming the picture is not a modern fake, the horn would seem to indicate a muzzle loader. The hammer doesn't look like a mule-ear. It is a back action lock, uncommon on American guns, and appears to be a percussion rifle.
Knowing something about the source of the picture would help, but I doubt anyone will ever identify the gun in any detail from that photograph alone.
Jim
Assuming the picture is not a modern fake, the horn would seem to indicate a muzzle loader. The hammer doesn't look like a mule-ear. It is a back action lock, uncommon on American guns, and appears to be a percussion rifle.
Knowing something about the source of the picture would help, but I doubt anyone will ever identify the gun in any detail from that photograph alone.
Jim
Amin Parker
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It looks like that genteman is smoking a pipe.
I collect guns and pipes so its a real treat for me to see both in the same pic.
Cant help with the gun though
I collect guns and pipes so its a real treat for me to see both in the same pic.
Cant help with the gun though
thanks for the replies guys. I told the guy in the other forum good luck in finding out what the gun was, the pic isn't good enough. Jim Keenan ,like you said, I actually told him that info on the picture might help more than the pic itself.
To me it looked like a rabbit eared shotgun. I figured that was not a powder horn but more like a fox horn.
To me it looked like a rabbit eared shotgun. I figured that was not a powder horn but more like a fox horn.
It is indeed a back action lock, and it would appear to be a single barreled weapon in that there is a single trigger. A single trigger actuating 2 percussion locks is pretty unlikely, but possible. The pistol grip and buttstock looks more like a shotgun to me, but who knows. The horn is not a fox horn. A rounded and likely turned plug with a finial can be seen at the butt. The spout appears to have a stopper, and does not appear to be cut at the point it would need to be to make a calling horn/fox horn. It is also carried as a powder horn would be. If it were a fox horn you would be blowing into the armpit.
TheGoldenState
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8/22 link still works
Horn is a powder horn.Tidewater_Kid
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There were a very, very few longrifles made up with backaction locks. The only ones in Captain Dillin's book are swivel breech guns except for one halfstock rifle. I have never seen one with a pistol grip, and besides we have no idea from the photo whether it has a half stock or not. Likely it does.