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Originally Posted by Iggy
You made it all better Giz. Nice work.
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Iggy,...
You'll get a kick out of the backstory, Amigo.
MVT Co. lists the gun as a Ketland Officers' Fusil. One thing I do know...that it ain't.
It was patterned after an original gun bought at auction. The folks over in India did a great job recreating it. Even got the lock plate, etc. right and the missing sideplate. If you look closely at the pics, you'll see the gun is cut down. The original they copied has ramrod entry tubes that aren't equally spaced, thus the missing 4-6" of original barrel.
What we actually have here is a copy of a Indian Trade Gun...as in American Indians! The Brits were famous for making import guns for the tribes that sided with them for trade purposes...
So we now have guns Made In India, representing Indian Trade Guns...now that's funny, I don't care who you are...