That’s so cool! These old air rifles always fascinate me. When I was younger I had no idea there was even a thought of air rifles back in the 18/19th century.
Recently purchased from a seller that labeled it as “unknown”. This rifle was last seen at the turn of the century being purchased at Rock Island Auction as part of the Myron Kasok collection by David Beeman, founder of Beeman Precision Airguns. From what I gathered so far, Myron obtained it from a veteran of the war who was close to the original story but I have yet to iron out the details.
Further pictures of better quality are to come once I have the time and details but I was too excited to share. I’ll also include the picture of the bolt and the threaded steel that it pushes against to cock the “hammer”. These are the only parts that are easy to disassemble and hence the only ones I have.
The only pictures of this rifle so far come from the 2003 auction and Beeman’s collection. Hopefully I can add some much needed detailed shots of the rifle and its disassembled parts
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That’s so cool! These old air rifles always fascinate me. When I was younger I had no idea there was even a thought of air rifles back in the 18/19th century.
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Recently purchased from a seller that labeled it as “unknown”. This rifle was last seen at the turn of the century being purchased at Rock Island Auction as part of the Myron Kasok collection by David Beeman, founder of Beeman Precision Airguns. From what I gathered so far, Myron obtained it from a veteran of the war who was close to the original story but I have yet to iron out the details.
Further pictures of better quality are to come once I have the time and details but I was too excited to share. I’ll also include the picture of the bolt and the threaded steel that it pushes against to cock the “hammer”. These are the only parts that are easy to disassemble and hence the only ones I have.
The only pictures of this rifle so far come from the 2003 auction and Beeman’s collection. Hopefully I can add some much needed detailed shots of the rifle and its disassembled parts
Heidruns_Herdsman@reddit
I remember reading a whole article about this rifle about 10 years ago. Its based on the Girandoni air rifle.
LeadnLasers@reddit (OP)
Close up pictures of bolt
BoredomThenFear@reddit
Nice! Which partisan group?
Global_Theme864@reddit
Super cool!
inserttext1@reddit
Very cool design and truly a forgotten weapon