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    Old family gun...ID help requested

    Hi Rudyard, thanks much! Yes, these family stories are hard to verify, but at least I know a little more now. Very interesting that it may be from Belgium...I may look into that some more. All the best,
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    Old family gun...ID help requested

    Thanks much! Very helpful, as I know next to nothing about these old firearms. I may take it to a professional, and won't try to fire it. Good to know for now that its 19th century....maybe, as you say, the story my grandmother is thinking about is about another gun. All the best,
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    Old family gun...ID help requested

    Thanks to all of you for your opinions...very helpful. I just dug up an old letter from my Grandmother, explaining that the rifle has been in our family for 8 generations...she also says: "The gun was sent from France to be used by Americans in the Revolutionary War, but it was not used in that...
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    Old family gun...ID help requested

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    Old family gun...ID help requested

    This is an old gun that my grandmother (born in 1916) says belonged to her grandfather in the 1800's in Indiana. There are no obvious marks/words inscribed on it. She doesn't know how he got it, but she thinks that the end of the muzzle was sawed off, and may have been even longer. She or...
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