Beautiful! I'm an old gun enthusiast. I have never seen one of those before.
I tell you what I know....and you fill in the rest
A while back I was able to pick up an interesting shotgun, for the price of a wall hanger.
I love the looks of this shotgun, in fact you could say it is Sharp's like in appearance.
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It has a small forestock, exposed hammer and what I think is the coolest part, a brass underlever to break open the barrel. It is a 12 gauge, 2 3/4" chamber.
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The barrel is 28" long, with a tiny groove on the receiver and an equally tiny brass bead front sight. It has a very nice brown patina on most of the metal, although you can tell it was probably blued at one time.
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When was this thing made, you ask? Well, that is a very good question. There is not a lot of information on these guns out there. It says "Bay State Arms Co. Uxbridge Mass. U.S.A. Pat'd Dec. 25, 1888 Wm. H. Davenport" on the barrel, and because just about every part of it has a serial number of 731, including the wood, the lever, receiver and several of the small parts, I am going out on a limb here and will say it was probably made in very late 1888 or early 1889. That's my story and I am sticking with it.
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Yep, black powder shotgunning, here I come! That is by choice, it will shoot 2 3/4" smokeless just fine. I just don't want to yet.
The bad: the buttstock is cracked at the tang and has warped away from the receiver, but it won't be a hard fix.
Now it is your turn to fill in the holes.....if you can think of any.
bob
I love the looks of this shotgun, in fact you could say it is Sharp's like in appearance.
It has a small forestock, exposed hammer and what I think is the coolest part, a brass underlever to break open the barrel. It is a 12 gauge, 2 3/4" chamber.
The barrel is 28" long, with a tiny groove on the receiver and an equally tiny brass bead front sight. It has a very nice brown patina on most of the metal, although you can tell it was probably blued at one time.
When was this thing made, you ask? Well, that is a very good question. There is not a lot of information on these guns out there. It says "Bay State Arms Co. Uxbridge Mass. U.S.A. Pat'd Dec. 25, 1888 Wm. H. Davenport" on the barrel, and because just about every part of it has a serial number of 731, including the wood, the lever, receiver and several of the small parts, I am going out on a limb here and will say it was probably made in very late 1888 or early 1889. That's my story and I am sticking with it.
Yep, black powder shotgunning, here I come! That is by choice, it will shoot 2 3/4" smokeless just fine. I just don't want to yet.
The bad: the buttstock is cracked at the tang and has warped away from the receiver, but it won't be a hard fix.
Now it is your turn to fill in the holes.....if you can think of any.
bob
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