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Turkey Blasters => The Blue Shoulder Club => Topic started by: Old Geezer on August 16, 2012, 10:01:05 AM

Title: "New Gun"
Post by: Old Geezer on August 16, 2012, 10:01:05 AM

Purchased a William Read SxS muzzle loader from a good friend of mine.  14ga, 29 1/2 barrels.  This gun, with the charge I use in it, will kill them out to 30yds.  William Read, Boston, which later became William Read and Sons, was an importer of high quality guns, and quality guns with their name put on them.  They also stocked guns from imported parts.  The company was in existance from the early 1800s to 1906.  The ramrod has a unique feature that has a covered screw for unloading a charge.  Don't know if this was original or added later.

Ralph

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Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: Shadetree Callers on August 16, 2012, 10:53:32 AM

Congrats Ralph . I know you cant wait to roll some gobblers with that one !!

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: Old Geezer on August 16, 2012, 11:10:54 AM

Here is a good site if you are interested in old gun catalogs.

Ralph

http://www.cornellpubs.com/old-guns/item_desc.php?item_id=592

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: Shadetree Callers on August 16, 2012, 11:21:01 AM

 Ralph , I have a nice old hammer gun from the Tula Armory in Russia . I  will have to break it out to show you sometime !

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: rocfish13 on August 16, 2012, 02:39:55 PM

Quote from: Shadetree Callers on August 16, 2012, 10:53:32 AM

Congrats Ralph . I know you cant wait to roll some gobblers with that one !!

   X2   SWEET!!!     Gary     *up* *up*

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: CW on August 16, 2012, 04:54:39 PM

Nice looking gun Ralph. Any idea what year it was made?  I love old hammer guns.

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: Lowcountry Longbeard on August 16, 2012, 05:06:21 PM

All the gobblers get dressed up properly before they die when Ralph shows up with his smokepoles  ;D

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: Old Geezer on August 16, 2012, 07:24:46 PM

The Birminham proof marks on the barrels were in use from 1813 to 1855.  The general look of the gun suggests it was made in the latter part of that period.

An interesting fact which was uncovered while researching this gun was that contemporay literature of the time talks of "lefts and rights" instead of "rights and lefts" pertaining to which barrel was fired first.  That answered my question of why the cavity of the left hammer that struck the cap, on guns of that time, are more beat up than the right.  Before finding that out, I found it was more confortable to pull the left trigger first, on the gun I had used on gobblers, so there really was a purpose in the way the length of pull and trigger set up was designed.
 

I am ordering some old catalogs from the site I posted above.

Bob,  Please post some photos of your gun.

Ralph

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: AlanKrow on August 17, 2012, 06:58:05 PM

Congrats on the smokepole.. *up* *up* *up*

Title: Re: "New Gun"
Post by: firedup on August 30, 2012, 08:27:09 PM

Nice old gun.  It is always a thrill to find one that old in "shooter" conditon.  Many are good for the wall and that is about it.  That gun would be a pleasure to carry around this fall.   *up*