Here's one I'd never seen before

[Cobra6]

What a better way to send a heart out to some one.

Yea, like your Ex-wife.

Cobra 6

 

[kje54]

Nope, no bullet pictures.

 

[Griz44Mag]

Look how far off center the front sight is.
Does that say something about the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of that novelty item?

 

[kje54]

Look how far off center the front sight is.
Does that say something about the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of that novelty item?

From what I understand items like these were typically objets de virtu, a master craftsman showing off his abilities creating his artistic pièce de résistance. I wouldn't be surprised if it was never intended to be fired.

 

[ord sgt]

Very interesting. Not one screw head can be seen. You have to find the secret spot to open to be able to disassemble this unique rifle.

 

[Col. Batguano]

I have a hunch that the twist in the barrel is filed in there and the barrel itself beneath it is conventional. The conventional octagon shape behind the wedding band would seem to suggest that.

 

[Josephg]

That has to be the neatest gun I ever seen. Wow!

 

[M. De Land]

Flintlock sporting rifle (Pirschbüchse) c. 1765

What does it shoot?

 

[kje54]

What does it shoot?

Whatever you point it at I guess......

 

[M. De Land]

Whatever you point it at I guess......
[/QUOT I mean what kind of projectile shape? My guess is it is only a novelty and does not fire anything at all.

 

[Lippy984]

Looks like Orange County Choppers made this one.

 

[LawrenceA]

Look how far off center the front sight is.
Does that say something about the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of that novelty item?

Just have to offset the backsight as well.
Look at the owen and bren guns

 

[toot]

well you would not decide sprue up or sprue down!!

 

[Gonetocamp]

A twist in the ramrod also.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

"Guns with unusual bore shapes were made as curiosities and demonstrations in the art of gunsmithing rather than for their accuracy in shooting." From the website referring to the rifle.

So even without TV the "Forged in Fire" program concept was valid even as far back as the 18th century....,

"See what I can do?", is a universal trait in males, probably housed in the Y chromosome.

LD

 

[MSW]

wow,

just, wow

 

[Mad Michael]

Look how far off center the front sight is.
Does that say something about the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of that novelty item?

That was my first thought too but given the twisted barrel to create the rifling effect the front sight may well be plumb and true to the rear sight, easy to check with a plumb line and level.

 

[Tb54]

I did a paper in high school on the history of firearms, and read on the experimenting they did with getting the projectile to twist. Some tries were twisting bbls. I never seen one like that before. Usually they were square or oval.

 

[Danny Ross]

I wonder if it is a smooth bore but the barrel twist imparted the rotation on the projectile, or was the barrel twisted first and the bore was cut straight afterwards? I also wish it had a mold for the projectile it shot, you can't call it a round ball or a bullet. DANNY

 

[Woody Morgan]

The bore reminds me of the "rifling" of an unmentionable pistol whose name sounds like a cat gagging.

wm