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RobT · Today, 05:20 AM

Triple Jack,

Here my impressions (again with the caveat that I’m no firearms expert). You have another cap lock here and it appears to be a muzzle loader. I can’t be sure about the muzzle loader part because the breach looks really, really odd. Since the Roland White cartridge patient expired on Dec 11, 1869 and the Mau Mau uprising happened 1920-1963, if the insurrectionists were using muzzle loading caplocks, they were sadly outgunned because the Brits were certainly armed with breach loading cartridge firearms. Your bore photo shows that your long gun is a smoothbore and, judging by the grip (with checkering on it), it began life as a sporting arm. I think that you should take your photos and any letters/serial numbers to a shotgun expert for ID. You should also ask about dismantling the gun so you can stop the live rust on the steel parts.

Sincerely,
RobT

Today, 05:20 AM	#2
RobT Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 595	Archaic for Mau Mau Triple Jack, Here my impressions (again with the caveat that I’m no firearms expert). You have another cap lock here and it appears to be a muzzle loader. I can’t be sure about the muzzle loader part because the breach looks really, really odd. Since the Roland White cartridge patient expired on Dec 11, 1869 and the Mau Mau uprising happened 1920-1963, if the insurrectionists were using muzzle loading caplocks, they were sadly outgunned because the Brits were certainly armed with breach loading cartridge firearms. Your bore photo shows that your long gun is a smoothbore and, judging by the grip (with checkering on it), it began life as a sporting arm. I think that you should take your photos and any letters/serial numbers to a shotgun expert for ID. You should also ask about dismantling the gun so you can stop the live rust on the steel parts. Sincerely, RobT