sweet gun

[riverdiver]

Awesome engraved brass trigger guard with sun motif.

 

[riverdiver]

Trigger and hammer assembly

 

[riverdiver]

Other side of hammer area

 

[riverdiver]

The working end with ramrod

 

[riverdiver]

Ramrod stored under barrel

 

[judu]

wow! ...thats incredible.i guess with it buried in the substate it was able to keep intact like that.really cool.

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Matt and Dan,

I kinda lost track of this thread. Matt, that is a fantastic find, plain and simple. Did your gunsmith have a date for that rifle? I'm assuming it is rifled, and is it a flintlock? I hope you can get a history of that colonial gunsmith. Amazing that it survived at all, phargin phenomenal that it is in such great shape. Was the bottom peat like, where he found it?

 

[riverdiver]

Hi surfaceone,

The rifle is dated to 1850 and is a cap and ball percussion, it was recovered from a peat like bottom with a high tannic acid level and very low oxygen content thus preserving it.