Was over at my soon to be son in laws house and he pulls out this old double barrel. He is hoping someone can id his late grandpas old double barrel percussion wall hanger. The gun was falling apart, so I made a temp barrel key and put a pin in the trigger set. At least now it doesn’t fall apart, risking further damage and he can hang it back on the wall, plus he can shoulder it now! I don’t think its anything particularly rare, historically or monetarily valuable, NOT that any of that matters, but it has ALOT of sentimental value and one day will pass on to his children. It appears to be a production gun because of the motif on the butt plate? I did have my micrometer there but appears to be 20ga’ish. The locks are missing unfortunately and I can’t really see any markings and did not want to go scouring the guns rightfully earned patina. He would love to get it firing again, if only blank charges but I think that’s a little ambitious. The barrel bores are rusty but did respond well to a brush in my drill. Would probably clean up decent with a hone. Would be cool to know what this is.
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I’ll check again under the barrels also. There was a lot of rust (patina, lol) that could be covering more info. I’ll try oiling first to see what I can uncover but at least this gives me some mfg’s and time line. Thanks again.
