If this one could talk

[JackADriscoll]

I picked up this 1835 us marked Springfield smoothbore as a chunk of rust. It's now my new favorite wall hanger. The lock is strong and everything is tight which surprised me. It's been shortened and sights removed to I dare say a coach gun length. I like to imagine that some old timer converted it to a home defense shotgun like I have in my bathroom (cause I ain't going out like that). I could probably shoot it if I wanted to. (Probably won't). There are pieces that I wish could tell their story and this is one of them.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Very interesting!

 

[R. Porter]

It has a cone-in-barrel conversion to percussion, so probably done at an arsenal. I think a number of these were condemned and sold off before the war. It could have been turned into a civilian shotgun. Then the war came! The guy who owned it had a horse so he joined the cavalry but he didn't have a carbine! So he grabbed a hacksaw and instant carbine! Or something else might have happened. A lot of these that were turned into shotguns had the forestock removed and a long barrel. It seems to me that cut-down muskets like this were not a common civilian adaptation, but then I don't have that much background or experience with firearms.

 

[bayonet]

I picked up this 1835 us marked Springfield smoothbore as a chunk of rust. It's now my new favorite wall hanger. The lock is strong and everything is tight which surprised me. It's been shortened and sights removed to I dare say a coach gun length. I like to imagine that some old timer converted it to a home defense shotgun like I have in my bathroom (cause I ain't going out like that). I could probably shoot it if I wanted to. (Probably won't). There are pieces that I wish could tell their story and this is one of them.

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You store a shotgun next to you while on the Crapper? Let me guess you saw that episode of GAME OF THRONES where the midget Son kills his Father with a crossbow while he's taking a dump. Well just treat your Kids good and you should have no worries.

 

[JackADriscoll]

You store a shotgun next to you while on the Crapper? Let me guess you saw that episode of GAME OF THRONES where the midget Son kills his Father with a crossbow while he's taking a dump. Well just treat your Kids good and you should have no worries.

Actually. Pulp fiction where Bruce Willis kills John Travolta

 

[bayonet]

Actually. Pulp fiction where Bruce Willis kills John Travolta

Yes but Travolta was already off the throne, flushed, and had his pants pulled up. So that does not count!

 

[JackADriscoll]

Yes but Travolta was already off the throne, flushed, and had his pants pulled up. So that does not count!

I stand corrected

 

[Papabyrd]

I have a 1902 Sears & Robuck catalog (Repo) and it has old surplus muskets cut down and made into shotguns.
They were offered in several barrel lengths. So there were company's making these conversions and selling them to Sears.
The price of one was .75 cents to $ 1.75 cents.

 

[Pollaco]

I guess there was a real origin to that term "getting caught with your pants down" and not just Hollywood.

 

[JackADriscoll]

It would be neat if you could post the picture

 

[RicM]

Also the Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. When the Cowboy gets it in the outhouse crapper by the Schofield Kid, lololol Yup always good to have a lock on the bathroom door

 

[RicM]

Actually Travolta was exiting the bathroom when he got it. Tyrion being a little guy lolol used little arrows to do away with his dad lolol while on the crapper lolol