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Traditional Firearms => Caplock Long Guns => Topic started by: rollingb on December 06, 2016, 06:36:58 AM

Title: Indian decorated double barrel shotgun
Post by: rollingb on December 06, 2016, 06:36:58 AM

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ColonialScout3/Cowboy%20Stuff%20II/3020-20Double20Barrel20Percussion20Shotgun20with20Indian20Decorations20ca_201850.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ColonialScout3/Cowboy%20Stuff%20II/3020-20Double20Barrel20Percussion20Shotgun20with20Indian20Decorations20ca_20185020close-up.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ColonialScout3/Cowboy%20Stuff%20II/3020-20Double20Barrel20Percussion20Shotgun20with20Indian20Decorations20ca_20185020close-up20of20Stock.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ColonialScout3/Cowboy%20Stuff%20II/3020-20Double20Barrel20Percussion20Shotgun20with20Indian20Decorations20ca_20185020close-ut20of20barrel.jpg)
Double Barrel Percussion Shotgun with Indian Decorations, ca. 1850.

Title: Re: Indian decorated double barrel shotgun
Post by: Winter Hawk on January 25, 2017, 04:56:50 PM

Interesting piece.  It looks like the stock and forearm, including the barrel, are encased in leather, with the stitching showing behind the trigger guard and at the butt.  Was this a common practice, or could it have been to repair damaged wood?

~WH~

Title: Re: Indian decorated double barrel shotgun
Post by: rollingb on January 25, 2017, 06:07:59 PM

Good question Winter Hawk,.... and while rawhide was commonly used to "hold things together" when wedge-keys or pins were lost, I can understand the use of it on the shotgun's forearm.
The same thing can be said for using it to repair a cracked or broken wrist on the butt stock,... so it's confusing why the entire butt stock would be covered with it, even the butt plate area.  :*:

Title: Re: Indian decorated double barrel shotgun
Post by: Lonewolfe20 on January 25, 2017, 07:15:15 PM

That is a beautiful gun

Title: Re: Indian decorated double barrel shotgun
Post by: Ohio Joe on January 25, 2017, 08:27:11 PM

Curious on the rawhide full wrap of the butt stock myself, but I expect we will never know unless it's removed and I'm pretty sure that ain't 'a gonna happen. If it could only talk.