lever action percusion

[arquebus]

Tac, that was my initial thought too. I was just going by the earlier description of it being a "German Elephant Gun".

 

[torn moc]

The action with the lever & block reminds me of the "Sharps" configuration....
nice gun....nice price?

 

[rayb]

Two groove rifling?

So there wasn't anything new in the 2 groove 1903 series springfield barrrels of WWII otr so..

rayb

 

[lanedh]

Didn't the flintlock Brunswick rifle use a belted ball, too? I think the "Sharpe's Rules" series about the Peninsula Campaign on PBS featured the Brunswick, but plot emphasis was not on the particular rifle so much as that the company of riflemen was an anomaly in an expeditionary force otherwise armed with smoothies.

The neatest stuff keeps showing up on this site!!

Brgds all, BJ

 

[arquebus]

BlueJacket, I'm pretty sure that the Sharpe's Rifles series characters were using the Baker rifle which had more conventional rifling. See Squire Robin's posts on shooting his original Baker.....a wonderful piece of history!
I, too, had brought up the similarity between the two-groove rifling in the rifle shown in this thread to a Brunswick in my earlier post. Coincidentally the Brunswick was of German design.