Doing some excavation work out behind my house, i dug up this doublebarreled muzzleloading shotgun(barrel only)
As i was using a mini bulldozer, i'm not sure exactly where the barrel came out of the ground but its unlikely many other pieces of the gun were there. The stage of decomposition was pretty bad. I used a media blaster to clean it up as well as i could. It may still be loaded in one barrel and may be the reason for the the dents in the muzzle and side of the barrel. It probably didn't go off while firing and someone beat the tar out of it on a tree and threw it away.
Its a 20 gaugish bore, 5/8 of an inch at the unbent part of the choke. 28 total inch"s long including the locks and apprx 26 1/2 inch barrel. Maybe just 26. Quite heavy, tiny brass/flat bead sight. Check out the muzzle construction for clues...
Would appear machine made, a percussion gun of course. Maybe that dates it to the mid to late 1800's. No identifiable marks unfortunately. Thanks for any info you may have..J.R.
As i was using a mini bulldozer, i'm not sure exactly where the barrel came out of the ground but its unlikely many other pieces of the gun were there. The stage of decomposition was pretty bad. I used a media blaster to clean it up as well as i could. It may still be loaded in one barrel and may be the reason for the the dents in the muzzle and side of the barrel. It probably didn't go off while firing and someone beat the tar out of it on a tree and threw it away.
Its a 20 gaugish bore, 5/8 of an inch at the unbent part of the choke. 28 total inch"s long including the locks and apprx 26 1/2 inch barrel. Maybe just 26. Quite heavy, tiny brass/flat bead sight. Check out the muzzle construction for clues...
Would appear machine made, a percussion gun of course. Maybe that dates it to the mid to late 1800's. No identifiable marks unfortunately. Thanks for any info you may have..J.R.
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