Tingle rifles?

[Keyhole]

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Here is my left handed Tingle. I’m a righty but couldn’t resist it at a bargain price at a gun show a few years back. It also is .45 and must be set to cock.

wow I love that! Let me know if you ever get tired of her

 

[Notchy Bob]

When I was growing up, my dad had around a dozen or so original percussion sporting rifles with double set triggers. One had been converted from flint. To the best of my recollection, these were all “single-phase” set triggers and they all had to be set to cock the piece, and I think only one of them had a half-cock, with a fly in the tumbler. The hammers on all of the others would be either full cock or all the way down.

Do the Tingle locks have a fly, and a half-cock position?

Notchy Bob

 

[Vintage Gunsmith]

Could you show the right side of the stock? The pawn shop gun I viewed had a "scoop" in the cheek piece area rather than a carved standing proud actual cheek piece. From what I could see in your previous photo of the right side, it appears smooth with no cheek piece or scoop. Just curious. Additionally, the 1862 serial number is about 600 higher than the pawnshop gun---makes one wonder how many rifles did Mr. Tingle produce in addition to the other guns he built.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Here are pictures again of mine. It has a serial number in the 600s

 

[Gtrubicon]

That is a very good looking rifle. It looks like an original late plains rifle.

 

[Vintage Gunsmith]

On the top flat of the rifle, I can see in your originally posted pictures, "No. 1892 (which I misquoted as 1862). Is there another number in the 600s someplace on the gun you are describing as the serial number?

 

[Notchy Bob]

That is a very good looking rifle. It looks like an original late plains rifle.

I would agree with that. It looks very traditional. I like all kinds of muzzleloaders, but “plains rifles” and plain old mountain rifles are the ones that really get my attention. These were the last holdouts, as far as muzzleloaders were concerned, overlapping in time with early breechloaders.

The Tingle rifle is true to the type in most respects. I like the poured nosecap, the plain iron ramrod pipes soldered to the rib, the drum and nipple, and the pointy heel on the buttplate. One could nitpick some of the details, but this rifle would be right at home lying across the pommel of a plainsman’s saddle.

The owners of these rifles are lucky fellows.

Notchy Bob

 

[brownac1983]

Could you show the right side of the stock? The pawn shop gun I viewed had a "scoop" in the cheek piece area rather than a carved standing proud actual cheek piece. From what I could see in your previous photo of the right side, it appears smooth with no cheek piece or scoop. Just curious. Additionally, the 1862 serial number is about 600 higher than the pawnshop gun---makes one wonder how many rifles did Mr. Tingle produce in addition to the other guns he built.

Hey, sorry, not sure how I missed this until I was reminded about this thread in another.

I don't have any more pictures handy, but you're looking at the one pic of the right side correctly. There's no cheek pad or scallop on the right side of the butt stock, it's smooth and symmetrical to the left.

 

[brownac1983]

On the top flat of the rifle, I can see in your originally posted pictures, "No. 1892 (which I misquoted as 1862). Is there another number in the 600s someplace on the gun you are describing as the serial number?

I have s/n 1892. @Kansas Jake has the 600s gun.

 

[Kansas Jake]

I have the 600s gun and would only sell it if someone offered way too much money for it. I’m right handed although I have daughters who shoot left handed due to left eye dominance and a left handed granddaughter.