Need Help Identifying Long Rifle

JimBonesMA · Jul 12, 2018

Thank you in advance for your assistance. I have this long rifle with barrel that measures 51 1/2" from end of barrel to percussion cap end. I cannot find anything in my Google searches based on the letters I can read on the side plate. I'm hoping someone here may recognize what it is. Thanks. I can't figure out why it won't let me copy & paste photos here so here is a link to a photo album of it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kRpt1R79cYHRMHi16

Eric Krewson · Jul 12, 2018

I don't know, is it a smooth bore? Long barrel for a halfstock, it was obviously a flintlock at one time.

rich pierce · Jul 12, 2018

Probably New England, after 1810, smoothbore. Unless I see rifling and or a small bore it was never a rifle. It’s a fowling piece.

nhmoose · Jul 13, 2018

Lock is a conversion from Flintlock.

No barrel pic so can't tell anything there but length sounds like a fowler not a rifle especially from the area in NE you are listing from.

excess650 · Jul 16, 2018

I see a round barrel, rounded toe, and fowler guard, so suggests fowler to me from what I can see.

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