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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: maharsb on June 21, 2025, 03:48:46 AM

Title: Plain Rifle with iron Trigger Guard
Post by: maharsb on June 21, 2025, 03:48:46 AM

Any thoughts on this rifle? Where and when it was made. Trigger guard is iron, ramrod pipes are brass.
Thanks,
Steven
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Title: Re: Plain Rifle with iron Trigger Guard
Post by: Tanselman on June 21, 2025, 06:20:27 AM

Steven,

Where do you keep digging up these "different" rifles at? One of these days, you need to find one that looks normal! The easy guess is Tennessee with the iron guard and highly pointed toe, but the shorter barrel, short squared off tang, and the long cheekpiece throw a question mark into that attribution... would be easier if the cheek had multiple incised lines that all expanded toward the rear... but your gun has only a single molding line. The mortise edge around the lock plate looks so clean and undamaged/unchipped, and the iron guard and triggers are in such good shape, that it almost makes me think this is an early 1900s stocked rifle with an older barrel, made for back woods target shooting.

Shelby Gallien   

Title: Re: Plain Rifle with iron Trigger Guard
Post by: maharsb on June 21, 2025, 03:37:59 PM

Thanks Shelby,
I guess I just like odd things. They tend to catch my eye for some reason. Some I just got before I knew anything other than that one looks neat.

Steven

Title: Re: Plain Rifle with iron Trigger Guard
Post by: AZshot on June 21, 2025, 03:43:36 PM

My first thought also was a restock. 

Title: Re: Plain Rifle with iron Trigger Guard
Post by: maharsb on June 21, 2025, 04:31:01 PM

An old restock makes sense. There is a lot more erosion on the drum and nipple than on the stock behind the hammer. 
Steven