Northwest swamped?

[coloradoclyde]

I saw a picture of a NORTHWEST GUN BY PRITCHETT. 1819....It appears to be swamped. :shocked2:
Maybe it's an illusion.... :idunno:

Did the make trade guns with swamped barrels?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...iszXr8P5NRbIEEC7g&sig2=pYY6mb7kqP1Rqtk0_-py_A

 

[nwtradegun]

tapered yes, thats what I see. however contact the musem of the fur trade for an answer. they have the largest collection of tradeguns.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Considering the vast numbers that were made, I'm sure someone made somewhere, at sometime made one .....
It just struck me as odd when I saw it.... :idunno:

In the photo it looks the same at breech and muzzle and narrow in the middle.....Isn't that different than a tapered barrel?
I'm looking at the photo on page 2

 

[Dane]

Pretty hard to tell from the photo. Lighting shadows and highlights can really deceive.

 

[Crewdawg445]

Thanks for posting this, very good read as I'm currently building mine. I agree with the others, the lighting and quality of those images make it hard to tell... Would certainly be interesting to find out though if that barrel is truly swamped. Possibly could have been done I guess just like anything, but to me in a way it seems the swamped barrel definitely would go against the grain of simplicity and the cost savings associated with producing a trade musket. :idunno:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Agree its hard to tell.....That's why I posted.... :grin:


You're welcome Crewdawg....That's what we're here for.

 

[tenngun]

looked close and saw what I wanted to see :grin: I think its just a poor copy of origanal photo, then poorly scaned in to the computer :idunno:

 

[Rifleman1776]

That is not a good pic to draw conclusions from.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Only questions....no conclusions... :grin:

 

[Grumpa]

I would agree with the above consensus. The barrel appears to be swamped, but it looks too drastic in the center...probably just an illusion caused by the lighting.

 

[jackley]

Looking at this and other photo's its just the pic. Not swamped.

 

[nhmoose]

Looks like an optical illusion due to the ramrod pipe and the ramrod sagging down at the muzzle but hard to tell by the pic quality.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Has anyone ever seen a round barrel that was swamped?....

 

[Khufu]

I dropped a trade musket in a marsh once duck hunting, does that count?

 

[coloradoclyde]

No! But I like your thinking..... :haha:

 

[hanshi]

Oh, my, but that was a good one!

 

[Khufu]

dropped my can of copenhagen too, was a completely miserable day! the skeeters were bigger than the ducks and pulling the shot column and removing the slimy goo that was once 90 gr of ffg while standing in calf deep muck as the flocks fly over at 30 feet, pure joy.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Has anyone ever seen a round barrel that was swamped?....

Octagon to round - with the swamp in the round. Fairly common.

 

[coloradoclyde]

:hmm: ...........picture?....on a gun?

 

[Cruzatte]

:hmm: I need to get out more often.