New old guns

[bobw]

CS that May gun is fairly famous and I'd be surprised if it wasn't in the Freund book. The Ft Griffin gun is all original and lettered by RL Moore ,nice shape and the barrel is good enuf to shoot, the chamber obvious is still original . One only needs to look thru both a greaser style chamber and original to see the difference immediately. Only problem I see to shooting it at the present is the frt sight which is original just like the ones Stephen Borud reproduces for his own use. It's obvious as hell to me that they were not well liked by the 1870-1880 users, seems like everytime I see an original they have been thinned down or somehow modified from factory configuration. I don't think it was breakage as they are of a sturdy design. The sight blade on the Ft Griffin gun was ground down flat with the base top split fore to aft with a cut and a blade inserted that simply does not stick up far enuf to use with the semibuckhorn on it. I told him I could jury rig in a temp duty a piece of copper electrical wire and some electrical tape to provide a useable bead without physically altering the gun. Custom modifications and historical guns don't mix. This gun was lettered to Conrad of Ft Griffin in 1877 as one of a big shipment of 40 guns the largest order Sharps ever shipped at one time according to RL Moore letter. historical provenance in spades, don't know what it's worth but he was offered over 30k for it. When I heard that I handed it back to him and asked if he was still sure about shooting it. He is and figures he needs to shoot a buffalo with it to boot. Kinda like that idea myself.

Mike I don't know about pictures of but imagine a Hartford gun with the collar ,pewter tip, semi-fancy wood. Lot of pitting on the barrels exterior, with maybe 50-60% finish left. The chamber looked shorter than the 2 44-90's he has so I think it's a 77 by visual exam. same sights as the Ft Griffen gun and a RL Moore letter with that also I don't remember all the specifics on it but seems it came from Sharps to a dealer in St Louis, Albrecht & ? Cool guns and damned neat reading those RL Moore Letters , yeah he keeps his doc letters in a safe also. bobw