SamRavster wrote...
PumpJack McGee wrote...
Newest addition to mein arsenal.
+Rep to the first person who can identify it.
Also, a tip to non-gun folk: Do not hold a rifle like this, I'm just arsing about. Recoil would likely send the stock right into your nose (especially with higher calibers like this one).
[font=verdana][color=green]Hmm...I don't know much about guns...but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it uses traditional gunpowder. Couldn't identify that gun though.
Tsujoi wrote...
I know nothing about guns, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's some kind of musket?
Haha. Don't let the hammer fool you.
But- yes- or rather- kinda.
This one has been reconfigured to fire normal brass cartridges, but originally it fired via percussion caps(or tape primer) and used linen cartridges.
Hints:
-It's been used in a number of westerns. Probably most famous in
Quigley Down Under starring Tom Selleck.
-It's also been very popular with cavalry forces on both sides of the American Civil War.
-It was designed in 1848.
Haha. Feels like I'm hosting a quiz show.
EDIT: @Cormac: Heh. Nope. It is a carbine, but it's not a flintlock, and- well- Yeah. I'll give the smoothbore, since it was originally. (The rifling was added when the gun was converted for brass cartridges).