Saw this hanging in a Cracker Barrel restaurant

[toot]

it is not doing the gun any good having the hammer on full cock / full compressed all for a very long time, it will take a set, and being over compressed it will / may snap & and not n a good way!

 

[Kenn]

One thing that seems different than most rifles I’ve seen (which isn’t very many) is the elongated trigger guard with the Hawken style scroll on it. There is a stamp or makers mark on the lock plate that I can’t make out, but it appears to be in an oval shape.

Looks unusual without escutcheons.

 

[SOLANCO]

CB,
Thanks for sharing that rifle. It is really a wonderment how the company overlooked that little historical jewel.

The wonder is that they used it at all.
Bet it would never have made the wall up here in the Northeast/midAtlantic.
Some brain dead TV news watcher would have dumpstered it during construction.

 

[Cherrybow]

May have this figured out. Henry with P.S.J. and co. Lock.

 

[user 48679]

One would think the restaurant manager would find it worthwhile to have the rifle examined by someone who knows what he's looking at, and maybe put a little informational card or placard with the rifle, for customers to read.

Chain store employees, even managers, are peons w/o the nerve or authority to even raise the question with the corporate offices.

 

[Justin.44]

Chain store employees, even managers, are peons w/o the nerve or authority to even raise the question with the corporate offices.

All of them?! An overgeneralization to say the least!

 

[Cattywompuss]

The middle 19th century guns are like the 1970s to me. Seems like everyone had a lot of fun, but I don't enjoy the decor and fashion personally. The shift to English style half-stocks right around the Civil War was a sad demise for the longrifle. Like the difference between a 1962 5th Avenue suit, and a leisure suit from 15 years later.

But I must admit that one of the sexiest guns I've ever seen was a Spencer with octagon barrel and ramrod, as well as pewter foretip.

But that is amazing that Cracker Barrel still has original guns in it's stores. I remember trying to study one myself when I was 12 years old in the Savannah Cracker Barrel. It took a lot of age and cynicism for me to reach the point of being a dink about an original rifle like that.