Grandpa's Old Guns

[Smithen]

Alright lets see if third times the charm, My last three posts disapeared and im not sure if they were deleted or what. I'm afraid I had misworded them and it might have been misconstrued as me trying to do something I wasnt so if I was I apologize. So here is my next attempt. These were two of my grandfathers old guns that I am getting but am not sure as of what they are, and was hoping that you all could help me identify them. The first one is a smoothy and I am fairly certain that it is a 50 cal.

Its a little hard to see but the inlay says RB.

The second one is a personal favorite of mine. It is a double barrel. From what I know about it my great grandfather used it to get second place in the national target shooting competition in 1969. One thing I find interesting is that the left barrel is a smoothy while the right one is rifled.

Any help would be great and thank you in advance for any help that I recieve. If I have done something wrong in this post again would someone please let me know so that I may fix the problem.

Thanks,
Tyler

 

[hoochiepapa]

The most help I can give is that the double is quite possibly what is called a drilling. In my youth I lived in Germany and my dad was interested in them, and almost bought one.
Then again maybe a drilling has three barrels. Gettin' old.
But it is beautiful, and has the lines of a German made arm.

 

[TFoley]

The most help I can give is that the double is quite possibly what is called a drilling. In my youth I lived in Germany and my dad was interested in them, and almost bought one.
Then again maybe a drilling has three barrels. Gettin' old.
But it is beautiful, and has the lines of a German made arm.

Sir - Re: Barrels and terminology -

Two barrels - side by side - same calibre = Flinte

One smooth and one rifled - side-by side = Cape Gun

Two barrels - One smooth and one rifled - superimposed = Bockbuchseflinte

Three barrels - One smooth, one large calibre and one large calibre - Drilling

Four barrels - yes, really - two smooth, one small rifled and one large rifled - Vierling

ANY Cape gun is a most unlikely candidate for any kind of competition shooting in the USA.

Just sayin'.

tac

 

[Smithen]

I will look more into it. I have the paperwork and the awards that my great grandfather won at the house so I will take picture and post when I get home and figure out specificly what it was. At the moment I am sitting at school studying for finals so it will be later in the day before I am able to figure it out.

Tyler

 

[hoochiepapa]

tac-thanks for the lesson.

 

[dkr02]

I have a match to your single barreled gun, come out of NE Missouri. Is the barrel half octagon, half round? I can't find any markings on mine, but what you have on the back action is very faint on mine. I guess it is a single barrel shotgun? Let me know if ya find out anything else!

Rick