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Give or take a great or two.
Or was it just good old fashioned American ingenuity?
Take your pick!
I bought this wall-hanger because it amused me. The anti's have a fit when gun owners come up with something, hell, anything different, and it scares them. But gun owners have been altering firearms for hundreds of years, and this is a prime example, whatever the reason.
It originally started out as a 1700's smoothbore flintlock musket, or possibly flintlock fowler. A couple hundred years ago, someone chopped the barrel to a length of 15 7/8", giving this flintlock an overall length of approx 31 1/2" long.
Was it done because Elmer Fudd's long dead ancestor got a carrot stuck in the end of the barrel, blowing it to smithereens, and he chopped off the end to "fix" it? Or was it done to make a more maneuverable home defense gun? Stagecoach gun or Buffalo gun? Who knows!
Regardless, I like it, and it's going over the fireplace, along with the other antique firearms.
Or was it just good old fashioned American ingenuity?
Take your pick!
I bought this wall-hanger because it amused me. The anti's have a fit when gun owners come up with something, hell, anything different, and it scares them. But gun owners have been altering firearms for hundreds of years, and this is a prime example, whatever the reason.
It originally started out as a 1700's smoothbore flintlock musket, or possibly flintlock fowler. A couple hundred years ago, someone chopped the barrel to a length of 15 7/8", giving this flintlock an overall length of approx 31 1/2" long.
Was it done because Elmer Fudd's long dead ancestor got a carrot stuck in the end of the barrel, blowing it to smithereens, and he chopped off the end to "fix" it? Or was it done to make a more maneuverable home defense gun? Stagecoach gun or Buffalo gun? Who knows!
Regardless, I like it, and it's going over the fireplace, along with the other antique firearms.
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