Double barrel Brown Bess?

[JRMan]

Any ideas how this would actually work?

 

[2 shots]

Any ideas how this would actually work?

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dont think it would work well if at all. touch hole out of wack , whats holding the barrel insert in? also a later pattern musket then what is considered a bess. seems someone wanted a smaller bore musket or the barrel was wasted. just some thoughts. nothing was wasted, unlike today.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Send it out to Bobby Hoyt in PA to have the barrel and breech plug integrity checked out. He can then properly line it ... if needed.

I think someone may have intentionally placed that insert in there, perhaps to prevent loading and shooting. FWIW I've seen various muzzleloaders through the years with inches of cast lead at the bottom of the breech, or filled with some epoxy product.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

That's a piece of tourist trade. Never saw England.

 

[JRMan]

Here is the listed description:

Antique British Nepal / East India Pattern Brown Bess Gauge 62 Flintlock Musket.
"TOWER/PROOF" marked locked with a pan that blocks the vent.
The barrel has a thinner tube inside the outer tube. Caliber estimated.
Mechanically works with 1 click but the spring is soft

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Run, Forrest ... run!

It's at $750 and that appears to be $700 too much already ...

 

[Sam squanch]

The barrel MAY have a flaw , that’s why the other smaller barrel was stuck in there, to make it shoot. But not with that touch hole…..

 

[appalichian hunter]

I would stay away from that one.

 

[Rudyard]

While its condition is what might be described as ' NRA Disgusting ' it appears to have been used a lot by someone despite its two barrels and hideous treatment .Truth is very often stranger than fiction and the art of the international gun bodger knows no bounds a very evident fact in this case . Rudyards take

 

[Rifleman1776]

In my expert opinion, that looks very scary. Run, don't walk away from it.

 

[springfield art]

Any ideas how this would actually work?

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Looks like something foisted upon the Natives!

 

[Rudyard]

Looks like something foisted upon the Natives!

That I doubt 'Natives" tend to be more discerning when it comes to function .
Rudyard

 

[Sam squanch]

People will shoot anything to save a buck. My friends dad years ago still fired his very old unmentionable single 12 gauge. It was held together with electrical tape, and the breech was locked shut with a hose clamp somehow. We cut it into 6 pieces and bought him a new one…

 

[Trot]

I can't see how it ever could have been used in that configuration, and I don't think it has anything to do with the actual gun. I expect somebody just jammed a piece of pipe down the barrel long after it's last use.

 

[Colonialnerd]

I’m far from an expert, but it kinda screams “death trap” to me. But again, not an expert.