Samuel Moore

[Feltwad]

Enclosed are images of a 10 bore percussion with the name of Samuel Moore Warranted on the lock . I bought the gun about 45 years ago from a dealer at a arms fair here in the UK . He said that he had bought the gun in the States and brought it too the UK .
The gun to me is one made up of mixed parts the iron barrel is 10 bore 40 inches long with UK proof with G11 below the crown it may have been a Bess barrel because there is a mark showing at one and a half inches from the muzzle which looks like a bayonet plug it now is fitted with a drum and nipple for percussion also it is fitted with a hooked breech plug. A ramrod rib has been fitted and it would have been restocked A good sound gun which would make a good shooter if the stock was longer to standard percussion trigger pull, may be some member can come up with what it really is and what it was used for.
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[tenngun]

:hatsoff: :thumbsup:

 

[wattlebuster]

Cool old gun :thumbsup:

 

[DickS]

I have a mixed parts double shotgun with a vengeance. From the overall quality, it was made by a gunsmith of some skill.
37" barrels, based on careful measurements are a pair of India pattern barrels.
Butt plate is from a Long Land musket. Trigger guard has a finial and style suggesting 1740s. Hand made triggers, sears altered to reach far enough to contact the triggers. Originally made as a flintlock, subsequently converted to cap. Locks are William Smith, would date to the 1840s.
It is a big gun ca. 14 pounds. Wide across the breeches. Hardly a wingshooter. I suspect it was made for market waterfowling. Came from an area with a very large wetland. Locks had been sealed to the stock with putty. Purpose built using a wide variety of available parts spanning close to a century. I an confident that it was made in Canada West.

 

[nhmoose]

:hatsoff: Nice gun Feltwad