Percussion pistol shotgun

[tenngun]

I have never delt with them, so was making no recommendation. I have heard other voice your complaint... let the buyer beware. It is a product they have. I wonder if a precusion would avoid the problems you speak of.

 

[George]

Lastly at risk of being kicked off the forum ther is the dreaded canoe gun :redface: sawed off fusils with twenty to twenty four inch barrels. Such guns were invented by the Fucawe and the Wannabe tribes in the ”˜70s. They too are handy hunters.

Maybe a bit earlier than 1970, more like 1770.

Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772

April, 1772 Describing how the Indians run down moose in winter when snow conditions are just right, over a period of several hours to two days. The Indians stripped down to bare minimum:

“On these occasions the Indians, in general, only take with them a knife or bayonet, and a little bag containing a set of fire-tackle, and are as lightly clothed as possible; some of them will carry a bow and two or three arrows, but I never knew any of them take a gun unless such as had been blown or bursted, and the barrel cut quite short, which, when reduced to the least possible size to be capable of doing any service, must be too great a weight for a man to run with in his hand for so many hours together.”

Spence

 

[tenngun]

For sure short guns were used and at least not thrown away if something was damaged . I am also put in mind of the blanket guns the ladies carried in to the British forts in 1763. Then there the buffalo runners from a little later.
I was just making reference to the explosion of canoe guns in the eighties, I had one my self and it was too much fun. Did give it to a friend who passed it on to his brother.
I have just noted that if you say canoe gun today you get a sad look of pity from the ladies, the men look away in shame and the children are sent to bed, worse of all the jug stops being passed to you :haha:

 

[don hepler]

I made a compact, but not small pistol out of a TC White Mountain Carbine. I got it at a pawn shop for a good price. The stock had four holes, like a plaque or something, had been on it. I cut it down in to a Mare's leg. It's rifled, but could have been easily reamed out to smooth.

My intentions was to use the lock and trigger, along with the sawed off barrel, to make a pistol. But, the idea of a Canoe gun, blanket gun or whatever, you want to call it, came to mind and that's how it wound up.

 

[George]

I was just making reference to the explosion of canoe guns in the eighties, I had one my self and it was too much fun.

You spoke the truth, they were all the rage then. To the best of my memory I have never run across a reference to what would be called a canoe gun which was originally made that way. They all seem to have been sawed off for some reason, and even those are scarce.

Spence

 

[Nativearizonan]

The reasons for sawing off a gun are pretty obvious, and must have happened with some regularity. I've seen plenty of modern shotguns with dents and bulges, from falls and/or plugged barrels, and they are not easily fixed. The softer metal on the old guns would have dented much easier.

 

[tenngun]

We do see a lot of god awful ugly guns that have survived till today.
I do think our view on gun have been altered by a predator trap. During the metal drives during the war I bet a lot of ugly guns got scraped while the good looking one survived.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

If the OP is still interested in the Harpers Ferry percussion pistol made by Pedersoli, here is a link to a review I wrote a while back:
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/pedersoli-harpers-ferry-percussion-pistol-review.120413/

It's a fine pistol for sure.