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gwellis
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Good friend got this from family and doesn't know what make or model

I didn't see anything but the numbers.






Gil '91
SGrem
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12gauge/30.06?

Idk....cool find.
TRIDENT
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An old Cape gun. Probably German or Austrian due to the smoothbore being on the left hand side. Cool old weapon.
dcbowers
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TRIDENT said:

An old Cape gun. Probably German or Austrian due to the smoothbore being on the left hand side. Cool old weapon.


Tell me more about smoothbore vs. rifled bore shotguns. I assume the rifled bores have greater accuracy. What is the advantage of the smoothbore? And are left-handed smoothbores a unique feature of German and Austrian double barreled shotguns? Any reason?
TRIDENT
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It is a combination gun with the lefthand smoothbore barrel being a shotgun while the righthand rifled barrel is a centerfire rifle cartridge. They were popular for a period of time with gamekeepers that encountered a wide variety of game. A single firearm was handy to keep the stovetop supplied and offered some protection to boot.
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That's bad ass.

Not so bad ass that you should keep it, though.
Let me know when's a good time, and I'll come get it and dispose of it for you.
Be Yonder
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Hammer Cape Gun 11.15x60R (43 Mauser) & 16/65mm (16ga).
aggiesundevil4
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That looks awesome!
It looks a lot like my old CG Bonehill 10 gauge I picked up in an auction recently. Those old guns look great on a wall.

BlueSmoke
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BlueSmoke
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I'm envisioning the initial conversation about the gun being along the same lines as those pawn shop shows - "hold on, I know some guys"
Oso96
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Jerry Clower would call that a two hole gun.
jrbaggie
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Or a twice barrel shoot gun
BurrOak
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In the movie Jeremiah Johnson, the scene where Robert Redford is desperate and trying to catch the trout with his hands early on in the movie. He looks up and sees the Crow chief on his horse. The Chief has a similar type gun as this. Have no idea what the model is in the Chiefs hands, but I've always noticed the 2 different sized bores of that gun in that scene.
92AG10
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The water tables or barrel flats should have several proof marks. Those will generally denote the bore, choke, black powder or smokeless, country of origin and general time period of manufacture.

If you can post pics I can help decipher.
Eliminatus
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If you want to find the exact caliber for it.

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