What is this? please

[Clark]

People used carry this and use it....It is a 45/70 and it looks to be from the 1800s? How could anyone draw it?




IF anyone knows what this is it would be nice. :D

http://carryconcealed.net/images/uploaded/whatisthis.jpg

[VegasGeorge]

Oh, I suppose with a low slung holster, and a good elbow, one could get it up and out. That is a great old gun. I don't think I've seen one like that before. I thought 45/70 was a caliber used for buffalo guns.

[Clark]

I love history, but this one has me stumped. It is a 45/70 pistol which I did not knew existed, and it has matching serial numbers. The numbers on the cylinder and the frame match.

Some say it is Turkish, but the faint engravings do not look like that. I am going to try and scan or get a rubbing to add to this.

The guy I got if from actually had two 45/70 shells in the gun and was fanning the gun. I saw a shell roll up into position and stopped him. He had clearly done that before as the two shells had dimples in the primer and should have gone off. :shock:

If anyone has any idea it would be great to hear.

[Bill of Rights]

Clark,
Check the ATF's C&R list. You might find something there that will let you narrow down your search.

Just a thought, and my $0.02.

Blessings,
M

[Raccoon]

I wonder if you sent this picture to the J.M Davis Gun Museum. . . Maybe they can help. They would probably want it though. . . .

[Genghis77]

I would contact the American Rifleman publication of the NRA. You have an interesting one there. Totally unaware that it had ever been used for a handgun until modern times. Thompson Contender does have the option in their one shot pistol. I expect that would be quite a handful.

The .45/70 was a standard caliber for the US Army following the Little Bighorn (Custer was armed both pistol and carbine with 44/40's Often confusing one for the other and placing wrong ammo into guns. The cartidriges made for carbines had a much bigger powder charge.) Used up until the Spanish American War. Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders were equipted with the newer Krag-Jorgenson 30/40 rifle. Roosevelt actually purchased the new guns for his men out of his own pocket. With the rifles, I have seen some remarkible long range shots with the 45/70 out to 500 yards.

[sharps_74]

That's a neat old revolver. It looks to be German or Belgan made. BP era for sure. I would consult Dixie Gun works as to the maker. Old Turner is gone now but his gun collection is still intact. Somebody from there should know something.