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Offline oldtravler61

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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #100 on: January 23, 2021, 01:36:32 AM »
  Ya know it was originally a CANOE augar for fishing. Ya put the ramrod through the trigger guard an spin. Cut 6 inch perch holes perfect...!
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Offline Notchy Bob

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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #101 on: January 24, 2021, 04:54:44 PM »
I don't know if this is allowed, so Dennis, please delete if it's inappropriate. 

This is a screenshot of a page from the Muzzleloading forum that shows a post by Matt Denison, former proprietor of North star West.  I would take this as the definitive statement on the origin of the term, "canoe gun":




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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #102 on: January 24, 2021, 06:26:10 PM »
Quote from: Notchy Bob on January 24, 2021, 04:54:44 PM
I don't know if this is allowed, so Dennis, please delete if it's inappropriate. 

This is a screenshot of a page from the Muzzleloading forum that shows a post by Matt Denison, former proprietor of North star West.  I would take this as the definitive statement on the origin of the term, "canoe gun":




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The whole concept of needing a short gun to be able to stay seated while loading it is just plain silly. I never had any trouble loading a gun with a 48" barrel while staying seated in a canoe..... ::)
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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #103 on: January 24, 2021, 07:02:14 PM »
The saga continues. 



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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #104 on: January 24, 2021, 08:13:09 PM »
Quote from: Dave Marsh on January 24, 2021, 07:02:14 PM
The saga continues. 



On and on and on. It's winter, nothing else to do.
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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #105 on: January 24, 2021, 08:42:55 PM »
Hey if youse got nothing to do you're welcome to come out here and shovel snow for me!  I even have a canoe, we can use it as a toboggan down the nearest gas pipeline.
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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #106 on: January 24, 2021, 08:55:52 PM »
Quote from: Eric Kettenburg on January 24, 2021, 08:42:55 PM
Hey if youse got nothing to do you're welcome to come out here and shovel snow for me!  I even have a canoe, we can use it as a toboggan down the nearest gas pipeline.
I'm thinking of doing a Grizzly Adams TV marathon today :P  He was one evil SOB killing those trout..... I wonder if he used his canoe gun? :o
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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #107 on: September 28, 2025, 06:53:28 PM »
Maybe this one fell out of a canoe.  ;).   I took this pic in a Phillips Co. Museum in Malta, MT a few weeks back.  I asked for more info but the staff didn't know anything more other than in was donated in 1985 to the museum.  It did have a short barrel though.   I would say 28-30".  Wouldn't you like to know more on how it jumped ship?   ;D
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Offline rich pierce

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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #108 on: September 28, 2025, 07:25:03 PM »
I'll never get used to the practice of calling every long gun a rifle. As in the museum label above.
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Re: Canoe Gun
« Reply #109 on: September 28, 2025, 08:14:38 PM »
While working for the State of Florida as a conservator, I can remember only three gun barrels that had been shortened.  One looked like a Bess barrel that had been shortened and was loaded with snipped up strips of lead for a load.  It was excavated near the main gate in St. Augustine.  Maybe it was used for night guard duty?  The second was an R. Wilson trade gun recovered from the Apalachicola River with a 28", 20-gauge barrel.  The third was French pistol recovered from a 1715 Plate Fleet wreck.  The barrel had been shortened from 16" and a belt-hook/sash-hook was added.  We know it was shortened because several identical pistols were recovered with 16", 20 gauge barrels.  I think these 3 guns were shortened because of the needs of the owners or due to damage to the firearm.  James Levy
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