Help identify

[flintlock hunter]

Could anyone help with trying to figure out what this gun is, and its purpose. My cousins and I use to play with this on the family farm in the 50s It does not look like it has been cut down, it looks like it was made this size. Its 28 cal. and appears to be stocked in oak or ash. Any thoughts? Thanks Barry








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[tooguns]

Parlor gun? Sure is neat!

[WESTbury]

Blanket gun possibly made from a cut down boy's rifle?

[LynnC]

Buggy rifle is my guess.....Now I know what to do with that pistol barrel and percussion lock thats been laying around

[flintlock hunter]

Thanks, my cousin always told me that his dad was told when he received it in the twenties, it was a stage couch gun. I just thought that if that was true it would be a larger cal.
Barry

[LynnC]

There quite a few buggy rifles out there. Most are under hammer rigs but some side lock too. Many were made by famous target rifle makers in the second half of the 19th century.

I think the buggy rifle was just a short fast handling rifle for taking small game that you may encounter on you trip to and from wherever...

[Hungry Horse]

 It appears to be a pistol restocked as a rifle. The only rifle stocked guns I’ve seen that short, are what’s called a slaughter gun. They used them in early slaughterhouses. They were usually a .22 rifle cut down to a size very similar to this gun.

 Hungry Horse

[LynnC]

Google “buggy rifle” and images.  Interesting variant muzzle loaders for sure.

[Mike Brooks]

I don't know what it is but here's another one just like it.

[Robert Wolfe]

Now that's different Mike.

[WESTbury]

Please reference Mike Brooks September 10, 2019 post: "What is it?". 

This is well plowed ground.