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Jimofsc

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Need ID help!
« on: August 30, 2018, 01:08:18 AM »
I’m a newbie here but not new to black powder or shooting in general. I came across this rifle a few day’s ago. I need id help.
Rifle is 51” overall length, bore measures .311, and doesn’t look like it is rifled (rusted, I haven’t cleared). I hope I didn't post too many picture but I can send more it that will help with the ID. Thanks.










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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2018, 02:32:08 AM »
A very nice Tennessee or Western North Carolina Rifle with all the right stuff
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2018, 03:03:22 AM »
Any idea of the value? Who made it? Date?
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2018, 04:19:55 AM »
It looks like the tang wraps up on to the comb. Can you post a picture of that
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Offline Cades Cove Fiddler

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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2018, 05:01:16 AM »
 ??? ??? ???... I'm calling upper East Tennessee,... give us some pix of the breech-tang, top of butt-plate, bottom view of trigger-guard, area where ramrod enters the wood in the stock, front & rear sights and sideplate or washers,.......does she have a nosecap,..??... barrel and stock may be shortened,...  look closely on top of barrel for markings in area of rear sight.... ... might seem like asking for a lot of photos,.. but these are needed to venture an I.D. without seeing the rifle in person,... thanx for posting,...!!! ... regards,... Cades Cove Fiddler,....
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2018, 11:46:53 PM »
As to the rifling issue, a close look at the muzzle shows the bore has seven rifling grooves...a true rifle. Shelby Gallien
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2018, 12:34:23 AM »
I would say Unicoi County, if I had to guess. Looks like someone put the lock in with the sear under the trigger bar instead of over it.
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2018, 02:33:07 AM »
 ;) ;)... I agree, Gerald,... Trigger-guard and patch-box very similar to a Jonathan Gross that you know about,... !!!!! 
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2018, 02:53:13 AM »
Just some old darn gun hardly worthy of hanging in the outhouse but I guess if you want to rid yourself of it I'd take it off your hands IF you gave me $10 and paid to ship it to me. ::)








GREAT rifle.  Why can I never find things like that!
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2018, 03:02:57 AM »
Is it me or does it look like the forearm was cut off?
I think it started out a fullstock.
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Re: Need ID help!
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2018, 04:39:03 AM »
The fore end is cut just a little forward of the entry pipe.  The ram rod however goes into the pipe then up to keepers that are attached to the underside of the bbl.  I think it might also serve as a base fiddle!  This would be a great candidate for a fore end replacement.  Should not be all that hard and given the other end it would be a dy-no-mite rifle.

SO, is it for sale?

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