When this gun was born...

[theotherwaldo]

This Belgian-made African Trade Musket was probably assembled around 1885 to 1920 from an array of outmoded Austrian, German, French and Belgian military components (suitably modified), with a new-made lock plate and stock.
When built it was the primary firearm that the Belgian colonial natives were allowed to possess during most of the colonial period.
Its history potentially covers the entire period between 1885 and1962.
When it's type was first made:

• The British were fighting the Mahdis in the Sudan and Kipling was writing about it.
• Charles Dow first published the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• Gottlieb Daimler was making his first motorcycle and Karl Benz was making his first car.
• The Washington Monument was finished and the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

-And almost all guns burned black powder.

 

[WestKentucky]

Here’s a little change of pace. Tuesday, November 8, 2016 this little gem was assembled as the map grew ever so slowly more and more red. That sticker has significance, and I am considering putting a coat of clear protectant over it to preserve it. I still haven’t bought another BCG and CH for it, I keep swapping back and forth from my carbine.

 

[WestKentucky]

And another change of pace...RG model 39 in 32swl. Kinda ugly, very poor quality, but it’s a solid shooter. I don’t know an exact date on manufacture but I know it was brought into my family at a rough point in time. Dad was in high school in the very early 1970s. That late 60s and early 70s era was plagued with drug use, racial violence, and a war in Vietnam. Grandma bought this revolver at a yard sale from an elderly lady who could no longer work the gun due to the ridiculous trigger pull, and as a friend of the family Grandma wanted to help the lady put food in her belly. In about 2014 I bought it from grandma for the same reasons, only it was to put Christmas presents for her younger grandkids under the tree.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Remington Mod.51, .380 1926 production.

Robert Goddard launches his 1st liquid fuelled rocket.

"Winnie the Pooh" is published.

PCP (Angeldust) is synthesized for the first time.

Harry Houdini died.

The National Bar Association is formed.

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.