Rifle identification

[Ghost40]

Hey all

Been a while since I've posted here. My father inlaw passed away a while back amd my mother inlaw found some of his rifles. I've been able to ID all of them but this one. Best I can tell it looks like an older single shell shotgun

 

[trickg]

It looks a lot like a Hopkins & Allen falling block shotgun - the shape of the action is right, but the contouring doesn't match most of the ones I've seen online, although they changed it here and there it would seem.

Edit - found this. This looks a lot like the one in your pic:

Hopkins & Allen falling block shotgun, 12 gauge, with a 29 1/2'' round barrel

Hopkins & Allen falling block shotgun, 12 gauge, with a 29 1/2'' round barrel, together with an Allen side swing muff pistol with a spur trigger and a 2'' barrel. C & R

www.bidsquare.com

 

[Ghost40]

It looks a lot like a Hopkins & Allen falling block shotgun - the shape of the action is right, but the contouring doesn't match most of the ones I've seen online, although they changed it here and there it would seem.

Edit - found this. This looks a lot like the one in your pic:

Hopkins & Allen falling block shotgun, 12 gauge, with a 29 1/2'' round barrel

Hopkins & Allen falling block shotgun, 12 gauge, with a 29 1/2'' round barrel, together with an Allen side swing muff pistol with a spur trigger and a 2'' barrel. C & R

www.bidsquare.com

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Thanks for the info!

 

[trickg]

Thanks for the info!

In the little bit I've been digging around, it seems that the Hopkins & Allen shotguns aren't worth much, but they are certainly interesting.

 

[Ghost40]

Yeah, if its the same stuff I've found. My mother-in-law also ended up with a Remington model 700 (her husband won in it in an NRA raffle years ago) thats never been fired and a Ruger 22L rifle (not sure of the model). She wants to transfer them to me so I am calling MSP today to get details for her.

 

[toppkatt]

Well if they shoot, they are okay for some types of hunting, so there is that.

 

[E.Shell]

Yeah, if its the same stuff I've found. My mother-in-law also ended up with a Remington model 700 (her husband won in it in an NRA raffle years ago) thats never been fired and a Ruger 22L rifle (not sure of the model). She wants to transfer them to me so I am calling MSP today to get details for her.

Just take those long guns to your local FFL and have them arrange the transfer. MSP doesn't get involved in long gun purchases/transfers.

 

[Ghost40]

Well if they shoot, they are okay for some types of hunting, so there is that.

Yup!

Just take those long guns to your local FFL and have them arrange the transfer. MSP doesn't get involved in long gun purchases/transfers.

Ahh OK, good to know. I was reading online last night and the information is all over the place for transfer to in-laws

 

[trickg]

Here's another pic of a Hopkins & Allen shotgun that looks very similar to the one in your pic.

Yeah, if its the same stuff I've found. My mother-in-law also ended up with a Remington model 700 (her husband won in it in an NRA raffle years ago) thats never been fired and a Ruger 22L rifle (not sure of the model). She wants to transfer them to me so I am calling MSP today to get details for her.

I'm not saying you should do this - I'm certainly not advocating this - but IMO there's no reason to put paperwork on a gun that previously has no modern paperwork or footprint in any state system. Hypothetically, of course. Besides, I seem to recall that your father-in-law gifted those guns to you prior to his passing.

 

[toppkatt]

Oh, and it looks like it's missing one screw. Probably not hard to find, or make.
Also noticed the tape around the wrist and the broken wrist of the above image so it seems that narrow wrist is a 'weak' spot as it is in many designs. Thin wrist= easy to break :-(