A friend of mine called me yesterday and said he had something he wanted to give me, I told him sure stop by I'm in the shop.
He comes in carrying this huge rifle and said I know you like muzzleloaders and I wanted to give you this.
I was stunted by the size of this rifle. It's a 36 cal. with a 47 inch barrel 1 inch across the flats it was all I could do just to host it to the aiming position.
The rifle is a all decked out in German silver except the cap box which is brass. I started going over it this morning checked to if it was loaded it wasn't, bore is pretty much a goner, rest of the gun not so bad.
Took it all apart looking for some ID nothing on the barrel, took the lock off and just barely legible under a glass in think it reads " C Baker".
The hammer is shot due to being misaligned which is a easy fix, the barrel don't know yet. It's a pretty old gun and I'm not sure having it rebored would be the right thing to do.
Here are some photos, if any of you have some info on this maker please let me know.
P.S. the gun is so large I had a heck of a time finding somewhere in my shop to get a whole shot of it.
He comes in carrying this huge rifle and said I know you like muzzleloaders and I wanted to give you this.
I was stunted by the size of this rifle. It's a 36 cal. with a 47 inch barrel 1 inch across the flats it was all I could do just to host it to the aiming position.
The rifle is a all decked out in German silver except the cap box which is brass. I started going over it this morning checked to if it was loaded it wasn't, bore is pretty much a goner, rest of the gun not so bad.
Took it all apart looking for some ID nothing on the barrel, took the lock off and just barely legible under a glass in think it reads " C Baker".
The hammer is shot due to being misaligned which is a easy fix, the barrel don't know yet. It's a pretty old gun and I'm not sure having it rebored would be the right thing to do.
Here are some photos, if any of you have some info on this maker please let me know.
P.S. the gun is so large I had a heck of a time finding somewhere in my shop to get a whole shot of it.
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