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JPK
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Rifle type?
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November 24, 2023, 08:13:16 PM »
I’ve bought a nice rifle and wondered if for conversation purposes a type can be assigned to it. The stock is walnut with a 31” swamped barrel 1 1/8” at the breech. The Chambers lock is of a English type with a flat butt plate with fancy extension as is the trigger bow. A trade rifle or a jaeger or pure fantasy?
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Daryl
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November 24, 2023, 09:23:22 PM »
Looks like a nice hunting rifle to me. That rear sight says it was built for someone somewhat far sighted.
Strikes me as somewhat of a militar(ish) design.
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JPK
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November 25, 2023, 04:22:49 AM »
Thank you, Daryl.
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Mike Brooks
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November 25, 2023, 07:31:39 AM »
It's an English sporting rifle.
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Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
JPK
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November 25, 2023, 08:06:39 PM »
Thanks Mike, I hadn’t considered that.
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Dphariss
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November 27, 2023, 08:00:07 AM »
This is an English Sporting apparently made for a Colonel in the British Army its “musket bore” and is by Benjamin Griffin.
From “British Military Flintlock Rifles” by Bailey. Barrel is 23 7/8”.
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JPK
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November 27, 2023, 05:07:09 PM »
Thanks Dan.
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Daryl
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November 27, 2023, 09:44:08 PM »
Now why didn't I recognize it?
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