Old shotgun found in floorboards of hay mow

matt450

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Hey all. A friend of mine tears down old barns and moves them. While he was tearing one down a while back he found this old gun. It looks to be to far gone to try to restore but I still wanna try. Anybody recognize what it is.


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The best thing you can do is leave it alone... it looks like a very old shotgun, a great wall hanger looking like it does.
 
Yeah, looks a bit far gone for being a restoration candidate, cool find though!

These stories about people finding guns in their walls and floors make me want to start tearing apart the house. :)
Probably a long shot, but I'll never take apart another wall without thinking "could there be a gun in here?"
 
Leave it alone. "Restoring" the thing will make it worse. Find out what it is and make a nice sheet with the info.

Put all your wire brushes and steel wool away. Try to control yourself until the urge passes. :p
 
I would be VERY tempted to clean it..........and shoot it :stirthepot2:

What's so horrible about it? I can see some surface rust that will probably clean off. It's not hard to load 2 1/2 BP shells...
 
Kind of makes one wonder if there is a story that goes along with it being hidden in the barn.
 
The best thing you can do is leave it alone...
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Probably the sagest advice.

However ... would it be mine ... could not stop myself from carefully removing the wood, rubbing it down with a Linseed soaked rag.
Soak the metal well in diesel, get out the toothbrush and copper wool ....

It looks to be a well made, tightly inleted old scattergun. What if, once you get the action pryed open ... old timer left left grease in a good bore?.

Yeah, I'm hopeless. Can't resist the curiousity. :wave:
 
Without knowing the markings, patents or proofmarks, it is impossible to give you any idea. There were many very ordinary and unrecorded gun makers in the past. Their products were made simply and intended to be sold to regular folks who needed a shotgun. Side by side with exposed hammers makes me think early in the 20th century, but not necessarily older than that.
 
Belgian gun, likely a Nuemann Bros. or similar , with "The Interchangeable" locks.
Not worth messing with as a collector, but if it were me , I'd clean it up and hang it over the fireplace.
Trust me, you are NOT going to devalue this gun by doing that.
it's what my dearly departed dad would call a "pricless artifact"!!:>)
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