If you think about how many antique guns you have seen with a broken stock, usually at the wrist, it becomes quite apparent that guns usually make a pretty poor club. One should also take into consideration what the likelihood would be of these frontiersmen having the skills, or tools, to fit up a gun from just random parts. I think although examples of weird weaponry exist, we only have the age of the original gun to supply the approximate time period. I suspect many of these oddball weapons were generated many, many, years after the rifle was made, and possibly even into the twentieth century. few of these weapons show the kind of war damage one would expect.
Hungry Horse
