RCA 103 (the brass barreled rifle)?

[StarnesRowan]

Hey all, I need any info anyone can give me about the "brass barreled rifle" and its origins.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Try a Google search, there has to be a ton of information out there. Wallace Gusler thinks it's from Virginia, of course. It has had the barrel stretched at Williamsburg.

 

[rich pierce]

It’s in Rifles of Colonial America by Shumway. Volume 2 I believe, but you knew that already. Wallace Gusler wrote about it in Muzzle blasts articles. There’s a gun that is similar too. Then a bunch of later rifles that may share some DNA but are far less interesting to me. All are unsigned and none are dated. What is it you want to know, specifically?

 

[StarnesRowan]

It’s in Rifles of Colonial America by Shumway. Volume 2 I believe, but you knew that already. Wallace Gusler wrote about it in Muzzle blasts articles. There’s a gun that is similar too. Then a bunch of later rifles that may share some DNA but are far less interesting to me. All are unsigned and none are dated. What is it you want to know, specifically?

The geographic origin of the rifle is mainly what I am interested in.

I know Mr. Gusler places the gun in Virginia howevr It looks to me like a gun of Pennsylvania or North Carolina origin. There have been some stories I have heard lately (granted I have never seen the sources for the these stories) that the rifle was in Charlotte Nc before beinv bought and taken to Florida where it was found by Shumway. Just curious on what everyone eles thinks.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I have handled this gun several times and I honestly couldn't guess where it's from. It's very heavily Germanic. I'd say who ever made it was trained in Europe. I got the hint of a possible Swedish influence to it when I had it in hand, but who knows.

 

[StarnesRowan]

I have handled this gun several times and I honestly couldn't guess where it's from. It's very heavily Germanic. I'd say who ever made it was trained in Europe. I got the hint of a possible Swedish influence to it when I had it in hand, but who knows.

Is the gun in a musem now or a private collection

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I don't know. If I had to guess I'd say Williamsburg.

 

[rich pierce]

Wallace proposed it was the predecessor of a series of later rifles he called “the step toe” group which are more strongly attributed to Virginia. Lots of mysteries out there still. Unsigned guns!