Quote:
Originally Posted by koz
Can anyone ID this rifle? My father-in-law went to an auction and picked up several rifles and shotguns since I'm the favorite  .
There are no markings (no SN) on the gun other than the photo I posted. It has an octagonal barrel. The trigger must be pushed forward when the hammer is cocked, it's the only way to cock it. It looks to be somewhere around a .250 cal barrel.
Thoughts? |
Liege, Belgium manufactured Flobert single-shot lifting block rifle with a black powder (and possibly a smokeless powder) proof, later part of 1852-1893.
Could be a Flobert 6mm Rimfire, though the only way to tell for sure, without further markings, will be to cast the chamber and measure it.
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|