Jim C
45 Cal.
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- Feb 15, 2015
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Been looking for a couple of yrs now for just the right one and I finally got it today, and man is she a real beauty. The 50 cal bore is bright and shiny. The barrel and hardware is a beautiful smooth and even chocolate rust brown except for the German silver patch box, barrel wedge escutcheons, lock plate screw escutcheons, nose cap, and ramrod ends. The stock is maple with some figure, and an oil finish. It looks like a real antique, but at the same time, unused. It appears to me that it has never been fired. It has the two screw patch box but doesn't have the ramrod tension spring on the barrel rib. Whats really unusual, at least to me anyway, is that it doesn't have a single marking anywhere, not even proof marks or a serial number, which tends to lead me to believe that it has possibly been professionally antiqued. I would love to post some pics but I'm having a real hard time with the system that's in use on this site due to my limited basic computer abilities. I did get a photobucket account, but I'll never figure it out w/o some extremely detailed instructions. Wish it was as simple as adding an attachment to an email, but oh well.