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Pyrodex I gather is corrosive more difficult to keep clean that proper gunpowder Though Ime sure your mindful of this .Interesting story .
Regards Rudyard
Regards Rudyard
Dear Mr Rambob - you wrote - 'at my age, memory is a fickle thing, but I vaguely remember long ago'........................When I was a very young boy, I am 65 now, my family would visit my Great Uncle Bob at his farm in Wilmington Ohio. His house was over a hundred years old,
The Golcher lock pictured was never a flint lock. There are no screw and mounting holes for a frizzen (feather) spring. It also appears to be a replacement lock. The gaps around the lock plate indicate a replacement. The single lock bolt implies a mid 19th century stock built for a percussion lock. The lock panels don't appear to have the cut out associated with the need for the flint hammer to stop on the lock plate. The deeply crescent butt plate is also a later feature. Still it is a very nice rifle and is a significant element of your family's history.
I cant really add to that but I did stay at a Game keepers house that was listed in the Dooms day book that William the B'sted or Conckerer had commissioned to see what he had got post 1066 .
While I do agree that the rifle appears to be mid-19th century, the name on the barrel is J. HINDS, not Hines. While the maker did appear to have the N and the S backwards, I doubt he would been unable to spell his name. Perhaps the barrel itself is much older than the rifle as a whole. I would guess it is possible that some smith built a rifle around a good barrel rescued from a damaged rifle. Of course that part is mere conjecture on my part. It is also possible that some obscure J. Hinds, built the entire rifle. The features you point out certainly put the J. Hinds circa 1743 into serious question.Your rifle appears to be an 1850s-1860s percussion rifle based on its late trigger guard shape/style and its butt height and curvature. There were two possible makers, James Hines of Prebble Co., Ohio, and J. M. Hines of Newburg, Tennessee [town name cannot be found today]. The rifle appears to be made by the Tennessee "J. Hines" based on its butt shape [no "fish belly" in lower butt stock line], the hand-engraved name in capital block letters that was more a Tennessee detail than an Ohio detail in that late period, and the flattened lower edge of the cheekpiece that was more prevalent on TN rifles.
Shelby Gallien
Dear Mr Rambob - you wrote - 'at my age, memory is a fickle thing, but I vaguely remember long ago'........................
I was sure you wrote you were only 65, so I checked, and 'yup' there it is.
You also mentioning an old house, 'over a hundred years old' in fact. Boy that made me laff.
I guess you've never been to England, right?Our local pub opened its doors to passing trade in 1684, the bridge I use to cross into the other half of the village was built from church tithes in the early 13th C and our local church, which dates from the late 900s, had a new spire in 1460....
And yet we colonial hicks still whipped the best army you could assemble…twice.
I hope you enjoy the tune of the National Anthem when you hear it!
How droll!Funny, I was going to accuse TFoley of a non sequitur.
I cant really add to that but I did stay at a Game keepers house that was listed in the Dooms day book that William the B'sted or Conckerer had commissioned to see what he had got post 1066 .
I think this an old post" Did I see any old stuff ?' No just what any game keepers house might have , but the walls were about 4 foot thick he had 7 children don't remember a TV.( might be why ) .Did you see any really good stuff ?
Details, please !
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