Another original Jaeger

[musketshooter]

Here is a picture of an original Hessian military Jeager from my collection. This is an actual rifle carried by the Hessian mercenaris in the Revolutionary War. It is rifled, 62 caliber. Note the bayonet attachment bar at the muzzle. This one is in perfect shooting condition.

 

[BillinOregon]

Musketshooter: Very fine piece. The simple, sturdy lines give it a practical elegance that is hard to beat, in my opinion. Looks like a heck of a tool for war or for the hunt. Have you fired it? How many lands/grooves and what twist?

 

[Tahquamenon]

Nice rifle! :thumbsup:

What period year is this rifle from? Also, do you know what the rate of rifling of the bore is?

 

[Boonetract]

Beautiful rifle. Can you post any detailed photographs of the lock, butt, and nose cap? Please, Please, Please, Please.......

 

[musketshooter]

Hello again. Since you pleaded so nicely, here are a few more pictures. I also have two other original percussion jaegers. I have shot this gun. It has a perfect bore, but it shoots a little high at 50 yards. Please excuse the dust. It's been on the wall a while.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

It's interesting that the touchhole isn't lined up perfectly with the center of the pan. The touchhole is forward of center. They clearly didn't think to line up the two. It must have worked Ok as it most like was used a little. I say a little as a gun in that nice of shape wasn't dragged thru the rocks and mud, dunked under water, used as a club, etc. It's nice to see a gun in that nice of condition.
Ohio Rusty

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Do you have a date for it? It obviously has an early style lock and trigger guard plus the round toed stock is often an early feature. You are fortunate to have such a lovely piece in such fine condition. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[Bob J]

What a nice original! Thanks for posting the photos. Its most interesting :thumbsup:

 

[Boonetract]

I would love to know what each dent and ding was from. Very plain rifle. Very utilitarian. So much for my comment earlier about beautiful hessian rifles from deserters. Lack of a set trigger is interesting and follows European thoughts on the rifle in combat. The military rifles I saw in Munich were much more ornate. Hess Castle probably tried to get out as cheaply as possible with the Hessian Merc's. Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful rifle, much more to my taste than the fancy, but the Baron Von Glockinstock's reserve its not. This rifle and my personal rifle share that plainness. Jaegermeister did a very good job of recreating a gun that could have been a re-stocked military gun from deserter from the hessians based on your photographs. Thank you for posting and feel free to post all day.

 

[rayb]

Thanks for sharing

rayb

 

Right on, Bob Dewitt and thank you. Now that's the more utilitarian type jaeger I was talking about. I really like that Brandenburg School martial style trigger guard. These guns are heavy duty, kick butt tools with personality. Hardly any two are alike but they are all similar. I wish there were pictures of original slings as well.

 

[Gary]

Beautiful piece, and I'm thankful you're sharing it with us. Can you give us more on the dimensions (if you have the time)? Secondly, how was the provenance established such that it is traced to the Revolution and not a later period? You can see how rifles like this influenced the design of the British Baker rifle.