Hasn't come in yet, but I hope I did ok!
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WOW! That's amazing looking! What is it 
Please provide more info.
Nice! Would love to have one of those.
Nice give us updates and pictures when you get it.
ohio ramrod
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Wow! that is a beauty. reminds me of the more modern savage 22/410.
Cape Gun. Once common in places where you could encounter a wide variety of game.WOW! That's amazing looking! What is it
I'll say you did okay!
That is an interesting hunk of ordnance. Who made it? Is it an antique in really good shape, or of more recent manufacture?
We will be looking for a field report in the near future!
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I am in love! may be lust but I think its real Love! have wanted one for years. hope it treats you well!
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Neat!!! Very neat.
As a serious collector of percussion over/under guns, I offer a few comments . Your rifle over shotgun combination with a fixed breech and round barrels is a fairly common type. In this configuration, it was probably built anywhere from about 1855 to the 1870's. Many of the smaller makers did not mark their guns, but the major gunsmiths typically stamped their name and often their town on the top of the barrels between the rear sight and the breech. Your gun has a pair of typical side by side mounted back action locks and the nipple is mounted on a bolster. Without going into detail, the locks are mounted in a rather unusual fashion. Is that a fold-down rear sight on the tang? You've got a nice clean, collectable firearm. ( which is PROBABLY a shooter if checked out)
I just got it, so it's on it's way, but I do remember Graves, being on it.
hanshi
Cannon
I know of similar guns, more modern ones, are known as "drillings". That is one very cool combo gun.
Drillings have 3 barrels - 1 rifle and 2 shotgun. This is a cape gun - 1 of each. I suspect they were called cape guns because they were popular in South Africa.
JCKelly
45 Cal.
This is a popular style of gun. Great for the guy who need ed both a rifle and a shotgun.
This was, I believe, the last style of muzzle-loader, and was commonly produced, up through the 1870's. There are two makers named Graves in Michigan (both born in NY), possibly also in NY.
See my book,
These guys likely never heard of "cape guns", I think that's someone 's modern term.
This was, I believe, the last style of muzzle-loader, and was commonly produced, up through the 1870's. There are two makers named Graves in Michigan (both born in NY), possibly also in NY.
See my book,
These guys likely never heard of "cape guns", I think that's someone 's modern term.
When I saw the pics the thought came to me that the gun would make a great "movie hero" gun like Quigley's Sharps.
I thought that, too! I almost asked if that was like what Paints His Shirt Red had.
You see it when Jeremiah is trying to catch fish by hand, and he turns and sees PHSR on his horse right behind him (and between him and his rifle). PHSR has a mess of fish hanging from his horse and just looks at Johnson like he is crazy, and then turns and rides off. Great scene! (Edited thanks to Crooked Creek
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Sorry for the sidetrack...
Hope you post pics when the gun arrives!
