Need help identifying black powder rifle.

I do like that stock. It looks home made, but some rascel did take some extra time decorating it.

With the wood patchbox, no buttplate, cheek piece, sling swivels, and single brass barrel band at the muzzle, it isn't any production gun I know of.
Good luck on finding out who made it, and when.

Do you have a ramrod for it?
What caliber?
Does it say "BLACK POWDER ONLY" on the barrel? (If not, it may be pre-1890.)

You could start the history of it with:
"UNKNOWN black powder rifle; Obtained from ___ On (date) for $____ At (city and state)"
and update as you make a history with it, and discover more about it.

I dont claim to be an expert and am definately far from it...but to me it seems as if this gun shot some very corrosive primers by how corroded the nipple is.. and area around it too. Maybe its old enough to have been used at a time when older corrosive primers were available. Murcuric maybe?

Looks like something made in S.America or Asia for the tourist trade in the "American" style, meant to be decorative rather than functional. A Khyber Pass Kentucky rifle, so to speak. Probably not terribly old, either.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Looks like something made in S.America or Asia for the tourist trade in the "American" style, meant to be decorative rather than functional. A Khyber Pass Kentucky rifle, so to speak. Probably not terribly old, either.

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Khyber Pass Kentucky Rifles.. That is India you speak..


https://www.derbyshirearms.com/

http://www.veteranarms.com/ReproductionMuzzleloadersandFlintlocks/FAQs.html


skip to 1:50 for the meat & Potatoes

I wouldn't be surprised if it was made to be a wall hanger.
I hope you find some reliable info in your search.

Can you confirm if there is even a flash hole through the breach plug?
If not it supports the decorative wall hanger theory.

So the lock was converted over from a flinter. It looks from the hardware to have once been parts from an old US musket or even a French musket. A lot of the decoration was stamped with leather working tools. And it was done pretty fast, after the stock was sanded, and I think the decorations on the stock are much younger than the gun itself.

I'm thinking what you have is a prop-gun, or as suggested a wall-hanger.

LD

IMHO
1. The lock came from a "MRE de Libreville" French cavalry pistol converted from flintlock to percussion.
2. The barrel is repurposed from a French musket (1763 Charleville?)
3. The stock was repurposed from an American long rifle that originally had a pointed tang to the breech plug.
See pictures next post:

Ephraim Kibbey said:

IMHO
1. The lock came from a "MRE de Libreville" French cavalry pistol converted from flintlock to percussion.
2. The barrel is repurposed from a French musket (1763 Charleville?)
3. The stock was repurposed from an American long rifle that originally had a pointed tang to the breech plug.
See pictures next post:

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WOW... WOW.. WOW...

The wood grain and color reminds me of red oak. Similar grain structure too. But im not woodologist

I feel its wear looks very authentic. As far as the way the metal was corroded around the nipple area and the barrel area close to the nipple. Looks the same way other original guns do that shot the old murcury fulminate primers...it ate away at the metal with pitting. Kinda hard to describe.