Modified Colt

[Jappo]

I hope this is ok. Just had to share. Looks like a good conversation piece.
I have a link if anyone is interested in reading.

 

[M. De Land]

I hope this is ok. Just had to share. Looks like a good conversation piece.
I have a link if anyone is interested in reading.

The first looks like a single shot cartridge conversion (firing pin showing) and the second a single shot percussion conversion (nipple showing). I wonder if they were cobbled together parts guns with damaged cylinders that were some how made inoperable ?
I'd be interested in reading their story!

 

[Jappo]

Guy actually tried to fire it but the powder wouldn't ignite.
https://www.highcaliberhistory.com/post/not-your-average-colt-conversion

 

[M. De Land]

Guy actually tried to fire it but the powder wouldn't ignite.
https://www.highcaliberhistory.com/post/not-your-average-colt-conversion

If only old guns could talk!

 

[Ed C.]

Looks like one of those junk art sculptures. It does make you stop and think.

 

[Notchy Bob]

Those don't look like a good idea, to me. I guess the one on the right would be a true muzzle-loader, but capping it might be a trick. The one on the left looks like it is intended to fire a cartridge. The only way I can see it would work is to drive out the wedge, remove the barrel assembly, load the cartridge, then reassemble. However, I would not want to carry it pre-loaded. Not with an exposed firing pin like that. So, it would be unsafe to carry loaded, and impractical to load. Not a good idea at all.

Casting no aspersions on @Jappo , though... thanks for showing these! Just when you think you've about seen them all, something completely different comes along, and these are "differenter" than any handguns I remember seeing. Somebody did post photos a while back of a heavily modified Ruger Old Army revolver that had been rebuilt as a hard-core match pistol. I thought that one was funny looking, but these two just take the biscuit.

Notchy Bob

 

[Bad Karma]

I hope this is ok. Just had to share. Looks like a good conversation piece.
I have a link if anyone is interested in reading.

Bubba the gun crank has struck again!

 

[Bad Karma]

Those don't look like a good idea, to me. I guess the one on the right would be a true muzzle-loader, but capping it might be a trick. The one on the left looks like it is intended to fire a cartridge. The only way I can see it would work is to drive out the wedge, remove the barrel assembly, load the cartridge, then reassemble. However, I would not want to carry it pre-loaded. Not with an exposed firing pin like that. So, it would be unsafe to carry loaded, and impractical to load. Not a good idea at all.

Casting no aspersions on @Jappo , though... thanks for showing these! Just when you think you've about seen them all, something completely different comes along, and these are "differenter" than any handguns I remember seeing. Somebody did post photos a while back of a heavily modified Ruger Old Army revolver that had been rebuilt as a hard-core match pistol. I thought that one was funny looking, but these two just take the biscuit.

Notchy Bob

The first example appears to load much like the Merwin Hulbert disassembles… twist the barrel,,remove from the frame and drop a cartridge in place.