Big bore carbines

[Rasch Chronicles]

Habu,

Perhaps something like this might appeal to you:



Octagonal barrel with rifled bore in 15.5 mm caliber. The carbine can be disassembled into two halves by means of a bayonet coupling, pull-out butt plate.

This carbine is 57cm long from buttplate to muzzle or aboout 22.5 inches long! The barrel can't be more than 10, 12 inches I'm guessing. The ultimate in big bore portability!

Albert “The Afghan” Rasch
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles™
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!

[Kermit]

...and with double set triggers! Bizarre.

[Habu]

Neat piece!  I somehow missed that while plumbing the depths of Hermann-Historica for inspiration. 

I used to joke that my cut-down Brown Bess was an 18th century "assault weapon" but the designer/builder of this went way further.  Takedown, collapsible butt, short barrel; I think Eugene Stoner may have designed this in a previous incarnation.  It was even updated to percussion.

The double-set triggers seem crazy, but the thing is essentially a shoulder-stocked pistol--and we do see set triggers on occasional pistols, even as early as this one (1760).   

Any other good examples of historical rifles this short?

Jim