Date of manufacture and origin of rife

[dselman]

I just bought what I believe to be an older hawken style rifle. It has around a 33 inch 1 1/8 diameter .45ish caliber barrel with what looks to be ROTURNE engraved on the barrel. The lock has the initials L.M. Engraved on it. The stock is a plain walnut half stock. I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of either maker and a rough time frame the rifle might be from? I apologize for the low quality pictures. I am traveling for work so the pictures were took in the cab of my truck.

 

[TxGR]

No idea, but I am very curious about it. Hopefully somebody else will know.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Nice rifle, but not a Hawken style. More a Midwest perhaps Ohio type. Looks well made !

 

[tenngun]

I would hazard cr 1850, maybe as old as forty. Lots of thes style guns made from Connecticut to Missouri
While not a classic Hawken plains rifle the brothers did make guns that looked like this.

 

[Grenadier1758]

I kind of agree with @tenngun and @Phil Coffins. It has the appearance of an 1850's ish target rifle built in the midwest. Many gunbuilders built rifles with that style of architecture. The rear sight appears to be later of the 1870's or later. I might also be a parts gun built in the 1970's. We need to wait and see if we can come up with some names for those markings. It is a nice looking rifle.

 

[dselman]

Does anyone know how to make the name on the barrel more legible without affecting the patina the rifle has ?

 

[Grenadier1758]

Rub some white chalk over it and lightly wipe it off.

 

[deerstalkert]

i would almost bet the name is RO Turner

 

[MDH]

I think 1850's is to early for this back action 1/2 stock. To me it looks more like 1870's maybe Ohio made. Similar to many rifles of that era.

 

[tallPercshooter]

Back action? what picture are you looking at?

 

[MDH]

Back action? what picture are you looking at?

My bad, got it mixed up with another. Still think it's a later gun.

 

[dselman]

I have finally been able to come home and pull the gun from the stock for I cleaning and seen where the barrel was marked Remington and on the breech it has several numbers engraved that’s hard to read and then it has 10 1/2W. Does anyone know what this might mean?