Trying to get an ID or any info really. No serial numbers or nothing

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Amar

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It looks like somebody's first time at stocking a rifle. They would have used a variety of parts they had. It was not manufactured by any company so it has no serial number. Sometimes a name
Might be found under the barrel, in the ramrod channel, or even under the buttplate. Besides that can't really help ya.
 
I often wonder about these types of guns, adult builder, boy scout project or just an average Joe who loved the Davy Crockett series and wanted to make his own gun at a time when there was very little reference material for him to draw from.

The front sight on backwards is a dead giveaway about the builders experience.
 
I did one of those Dixie longrifles in the 1980's. Same precarve stock with the incise line carved along the ramrod channel, same sideplate. I did do marginally better, I at least attempted to shape the lock panel!
 
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