Now THIS is a Big Bore

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12 April 2019, 04:53

Jefffive

Now THIS is a Big Bore

Morphy Auction

If you wander through that auction and spend $50,000 don't blame me.

12 April 2019, 07:32

Biebs

Buckstix, it's calling your name!!!

12 April 2019, 19:17

boom stick

Damn
That is cool.

12 April 2019, 23:02

Todd Williams

Watching the guy rotate the hand crank, listening and observing the mechanics of how it works was very cool. What a machine it must have been in its day.

13 April 2019, 00:08

Jefffive

quote:
Originally posted by Todd Williams:
Watching the guy rotate the hand crank, listening and observing the mechanics of how it works was very cool. What a machine it must have been in its day.

Would have been damned impressive if it was shooting your direction too.

13 April 2019, 04:08

Dulltool17

A beautiful piece of history there.
Thanks for posting!

13 April 2019, 08:21

RIP

Cool as heck, complete with little bullet impact nick on the 4th barrel of five, a cute little battle scar.
Somebody was shooting back at it, maybe Teddy?
Transferable as if not a firearm at all, and with all that provenance.
Yes, I would love to have one of those to park in the livingroom.

Rip ...

13 April 2019, 18:38

Jefffive

quote:
Originally posted by RIP:
Cool as heck, complete with little bullet impact nick on the 4th barrel of five, a cute little battle scar.
Somebody was shooting back at it, maybe Teddy?
Transferable as if not a firearm at all, and with all that provenance.
Yes, I would love to have one of those to park in the livingroom.

Rip ...

Make up a few rounds of canister, with a pound of 00 each, and you can repel boarders...

14 April 2019, 17:54

Fjold

Want!

Frank

"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

24 April 2019, 19:14

Jefffive

Sold for $110,000.

24 April 2019, 20:03

RIP

Beat the $40,000-$50,000 estimate by quite a bit.
Well worth it.
I would volunteer to be the third party shipper, gratis, just to help get it to its new home, with someone who cares.
Any Bubba with a pickup truck would do it for free just to un-tarp it, on a fair-weather day, to get some "reactions" on the freeway.
It really ought to be in a museum somewhere, like the Frazier in Louisville, KY or the NRA in Fairfax, VA or Bubba's den.

Rip ...

24 April 2019, 20:36

Jefffive

quote:
Originally posted by RIP:
Beat the $40,000-$50,000 estimate by quite a bit.
Well worth it.
I would volunteer to be the third party shipper, gratis, just to help get it to its new home, with someone who cares.
Any Bubba with a pickup truck would do it for free just to un-tarp it, on a fair-weather day, to get some "reactions" on the freeway.
It really ought to be in a museum somewhere, like the Frazier in Louisville, KY or the NRA in Fairfax, VA or Bubba's den.

Rip ...

Hopefully either a museum got it or it was bought to donate.

Like any auction, some stuff is doubling estimate, some dropping for half.

Of course, the one I want will probably triple...

24 April 2019, 20:56

mbogobutch

That's awesome, bet Gunny would have loved to taken a volley with that beauty..so would I

24 April 2019, 21:33

Jefffive

This may be the strangest damned thing I've ever heard tale of.

An autoloading break-action single-barrel Iver Johnson shotgun.