Wallhangers

This was a Hanger for me - now she is a Project for another


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It is the remains of a Birmingham made double flintlock shotgun, converted to percussion. Drums and nipples installed where toucholes were. Post 1813 proofs; so I would estimate 1813 to 1825 for manufacture. Really hurting. Top rib was almost detached; now ready to be resoldered. Haven't decided if it will be restored as cap or flint. Won't do flint until after barrels have been test fired.
 
There is a really interesting tradegun in the Nunavut collection. Found on the land in Keewatin, south of Chesterfield Inlet, 1792 Wilson, iirc. The gun had been reworked during its period of use, the stock and buttplate carefully (professionally?) slimmed down. It had been deliberately destroyed, having been baseball batted, bending it into a U shape at the breech. Intact, functional gun when destroyed. It was sent to the national museum in Ottawa for conservation. Idiot at the national museum heated and straightened the serpent for some reason.
Being on the west coast of Hudson's Bay, it would have been out of Fort Prince of Wales in Churchill. With the skillfully done customization, it would not have been a common trade gun. But who knows? Its history is long done.
 
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