Show off your 100-year-old guns

[Ridge Runner]

1820ish English Double 20 bore. I have shot it in both Flintlock & Percussion mode. A very unique firearm.
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This is a first, as a muzzleloading fanatic I have never seen or heard of a duel ignition system on a muzzleloader.

Cool. Thanks for posting this firearm.

 

[Sarg]

Some nice old girls posted here, I like to shoot all my old firearms in the field sooner or later & have a lot but haven't always taken any photos of them in use.

Here are a couple of 6.5's used on Fallow Bucks, one a 1893-5 in 6.5X53R & 1903 in 6.5X54 both Gibbs,

My Old LSA Lee Speed in .303 Brit, shot a few Goats & Turkeys, in the close pic you can just see the Goats in the far corner on the Bush edge.

Remington 14 1/2 in 44/40 & the Big Goat with 38/40, shot a lot with my Remington 25 in 32/20 as well but no pics with game.

 

[Ridge Runner]

My oldest, 300-400 years old (probably closer to 300). Fully functional except the wheel doesn't spin fast enough for the agate to throw sparks. I need to find someone that is very knowledgable on Wheellocks. then she goes hunting.

Contact the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association in Friendship, Indiana.

The Spring National Championship Shoot is coming up soon and there are usualky several knowledgeable and excellent gunsmiths that attend the spring matches that can help.

BTW, several of the gunsmiths and a few others may claim "they need to "test fire" it, just to make sure it is safe for you to shoot it". And while you are at it, and coming to the shoot any way, you might as well fall into the crowd by bringing along your "1820ish....Flintlock and Percussion... 20 bore...." , and your period correct frontiersman attire for the wilderness shoot and primitive encampment area.

 

[C.W. Richter]

This is a first, as a muzzleloading fanatic I have never seen or heard of a duel ignition system on a muzzleloader.

Cool. Thanks for posting this firearm.

That's how the double guns began-two locks. In more modern times, Roger Raglin the famed deer hunter from OK took a Knight double percussion gun to Africa and filmed a wonderful video (he wanted a backup shot on Buff!) You've never seen an old double shotgun? Simply an upgraded muzzleloader. There were many! Double hammer guns were plentiful!

 

[Sourdough]

@Ridge Runner
I was at Friendship at the event you mention back in the 70’s one or two years. That’s where I met a couple of AMM brothers and they invited me to join. You’ve got a great idea there. I’m getting back from Zimbabwe/South Africa on the 9th of June but their calendar shows it goes for the remainder of the week. I’ll do my best to get up there. Thanks.

 

[analog_peninsula]

Proofed in February 1930, so only 94 years old, but we will get there soon. A Friedrich Triebel 8x65R double over 12ga 70mm.

 

[Sourdough]

That's how the double guns began-two locks. In more modern times, Roger Raglin the famed deer hunter from OK took a Knight double percussion gun to Africa and filmed a wonderful video (he wanted a backup shot on Buff!) You've never seen an old double shotgun? Simply an upgraded muzzleloader. There were many! Double hammer guns were plentiful!

I think you’re missing the uniqueness of this gun. Yes it has two locks, but each lock has two separate ignition systems, flintlock and percussion. Take your pick.

 

[Ridge Runner]

That's how the double guns began-two locks. In more modern times, Roger Raglin the famed deer hunter from OK took a Knight double percussion gun to Africa and filmed a wonderful video (he wanted a backup shot on Buff!) You've never seen an old double shotgun? Simply an upgraded muzzleloader. There were many! Double hammer guns were plentiful!

I've seen a lot of original bouble barrel shotguns. Just none with that double, double hammer.

On my wish list is a flintlock double barrel.

 

[Datchew]

This is my new favorite thread

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

I must learn how to ,
A)take decent pictures
B) learn how to post them.
I don’t have any exciting things like a lot on here, an 1820-39 14g percussion double shotgun, 1916 savage 99 takedown, several 1910-13 martini cadets, a large frame martini in 450-400 2 3/8, 1907 model92 baby saddle ring carbine in 32-20, a Winchester thumb trigger 22long and a 1867/72 Remington no.1 that’s been rebarreled to breach seat 45/70, effectively a 45/100
gumpy

 

[Rez Exelon]

No one has posted a trapdoor yet?? How about this 1884 Trapdoor Carbine. Best I can tell it was manufactured in 1889. All original except it got a recoil pad at some point, and the bar/ring on the opposite side have gone missing.

 

[Certus]

No one has posted a trapdoor yet?? How about this 1884 Trapdoor Carbine. Best I can tell it was manufactured in 1889. All original except it got a recoil pad at some point, and the bar/ring on the opposite side have gone missing.

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[yumastepside]

Now that I've seen Sarg's post, I just remembered that my LSA No.1 in375x2 1/2" FNE was made in 1904.

 

[Rez Exelon]

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Dang, I totally went right over that thinking it was something else, I'm so used to looking at my little one.

 

[MS 9x56]

104 yo

That one is on my wish list in either 30 rem or 35 rem.

 

[eyedok]

9.3x57 Husqvarna 100+

 

[eyedok]

126 yo Krag 30-40, shot a few deer w it but pics are not on my phone

 

[Jon Glajchen]

Remington Mod 12 C circa 1909 with a Remington 121 Fieldmaster from the 1930’s

 

[eyedok]

125 yo Armstrong damascus barrels

 

[Pondoro]

Pre 1924 Mannlicher Schoenauer take-down in 9,5 x 57mm