Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Cobre/SWD Terminator single shot open bolt shotgun manufactured from 1986 to 1988, marked for both 20 and 12 gauge with a 2.75-inch chamber and cylinder choke. The open bolt design is the main thing here. The bolt remains rearward until you pull the trigger,
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1933 Colt Shooting Master in .38 Special, one of approximately 2,500 produced in that caliber out of a total of approximately 3,500 in all configurations. The Shooting Master was Colt’s premium target revolver, introduced in 1932 and aimed at serious competitive shooters. 6-inch barrel,
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have a Prussian Potsdam Model 1809 percussion conversion rifle-musket with an 1832 buttplate tang and barrel. The bass gun started life as a flintlock. The 1832 date tells you when the Prussians decided to modernize it, pulling the flintlock hardware and fitting percussion ignition instead. Practical
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have an elaborately decorated Bavarian swivel breech percussion Fowler from the early to mid 1800s, marked “Johann Arnedt” and “A. Wirzburg” with silver inlay in the breech. This is a very nice looking gun. The lock plate, hammer, barrel tang, trigger guard and buttplate all have
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have a Needham conversion of a Bridesburg rifle-musket with an 1863-dated lock, one of approximately 5,020 Civil War muzzleloaders converted to a breechloading centerfire using the Needham side-opening system. After the war the army was sitting on a huge stockpile of percussion muskets. It was wasteful
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Brown Manufacturing Company Ballard Patent Single Shot Sporting Rifle manufactured from 1869 to 1873 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with at least 500 produced according to the Flederman guide. Brown Manufacturing was one of several small shops that tried to carve out a share of the
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have a 1911 manufactured Colt Model 1909 Double Action revolver marked “United States Property” with RAC inspection marks on the barrel, frame, cylinder and left grip under the barrel. The 1909 was the standard weapon of the Army before John Browning’s semi-automatic changed everything. .45 Long
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have a Sheridan Knockabout single shot pistol produced from 1953 to 1960, chambered in .22 S/L/LR. Sheridan is mostly remembered for the air gun and rightfully so, but they also made this thing. The knockabout was as simple as the pistol. Single shot, 5-inch barrel, no
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have a Colt official police revolver marked “TWC 327” on the butt, issued to the Tennessee Correctional Institution for Women. Correctional facilities run the numbered weapons list for exactly the reason you’d expect. Every gun had a number, every number had a gun, and if something
Welcome to today’s photo of the day! Here we have the Williamson Patent Derringer, produced from 1866 to 1870, chambered in .41 rimfire, and including a percussion adapter to convert between cartridge and cap operation. The 1860s were a transitional period where percussion and metallic cartridge systems actually co-existed. Wherever they went, not everyone had