Movie Prop or Real ….?

[TGJaeger]

I haven’t a clue where this should be posted so I’m going to try here. Found this on the inner-net . Don’t make a lick of sense to me. Sort of like mounting a bayonet on the butt stock.

 

[david w]

I haven’t a clue where this should be posted so I’m going to try here. Found this on the inner-net . Don’t make a lick of sense to me. Sort of like mounting a bayonet on the butt stock.View attachment 185067

It brings up, "you'll shoot your eye out"!

 

[BillKilgore]

You'll cut your ear off.

I vote somebody's idea of 19th century tacticool.

 

[Dutch7]

It is too short to be a shoulder arm, cross between TLOTM war club and a tactical gun
Weird

 

[Andrewmtnman]

Thats one of them there earsalt weapons

 

[Daryl Crawford]

Somebody's fantasy weapon made from an old shotgun?

 

[Urban Coyote]

I'm not sure but I think the blade is there to keep your cheek from slipping off the butt stock. Early Polish immigrants pioneers referred to these as "Warsaw War Clubs".

 

[SOLANCO]

Somebody had too much time on his hands.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Perhaps a native buffalo gun, really do not think it is a newer conversion looking at the pics. Interesting gun.

 

[Rich44]

You all are just not getting the point.

 

[PathfinderNC]

Photoshop

 

[Baxter]

No. Just no.

 

[TDM]

I probably do need to trim my beard. But not like that.

 

[necchi]

Niether,
It's a Photoshop fantasy, it's pretty obvious the blade was chopped in and poorly done.
The blade misses the comb line in the lower photo

 

[2 shots]

looks dangerous like that..... i would have put the blade coming out of the back.

 

[waksupi]

Studio guns are generally stamped with the movie company name.

 

[Notchy Bob]

It looks like a genuine old gun, but a modern hack job. There were some originals that were cut down that way, but the tack-work is overdone. It just doesn't look right.

As for the blade on the buttstock... maybe a PhotoShop joke, as suggested above, but some 21st century gun hacker may actually have been dumb enough to do this. If that is the case, they have utterly ruined what may have been an interesting antique.

I have never seen or heard of a genuine antique shoulder arm with native associations that had been modified with a permanently attached blade like that. There were gunstock-shaped war clubs with metal blades, but these were not guns. Samuel Pond, who was a missionary to the Dakotas in the 1830's through 1850's, said war clubs of this type were very common, but they were mostly used for show: "The war-club was a flat piece of wood, two and a half feet long and nearly or quite an inch thick. It was made of hard, heavy wood, often hickory. At one end it was small enough to make a convenient handle, and at the other end about four inches wide, the broad end bending back much like the breech end of a gun stock. On the outside of the bend, six or eight inches from the end, an iron like a spearhead was inserted. The broad, heavy end was designed to give force to the blow. These clubs were highly ornamented, and were carried a good deal about home, as canes are carried by gentlemen who do not need them, but the war-club was not depended on much in battle" (from The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota As They Were In 1834, p. 357).

Notchy Bob

 

[DCAN]

Now there's a cheek weld you'll never forget.

 

[user 48702]

Belonged to Josh Randall's Daddy.

 

[toot]

some body sure ruined a very nice blanket gun. now it will have to be shot from the chest!