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Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:16 pm

1800s Lantern Flintlock Pistol - just what you need for that nightly jaunt to the Outhouse...

http://www.alloutdoor.com/2015/11/22/ta ... from-1800/

mack · Post by **mack** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:00 pm

Something about the flame in the lantern, just above the flash pan, doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.......

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:22 pm

mack wrote:Something about the flame in the lantern, just above the flash pan, doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.......

Or in the outhouse, if you had too many beans...

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:40 pm

And here I thought lights on guns was a relatively new thing...

mack · Post by **mack** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:49 pm

AJMD429 wrote:
mack wrote:Something about the flame in the lantern, just above the flash pan, doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.......
Or in the outhouse, if you had too many beans...

You've tried my wife's cooking? She did a a chili with black beans on the side last week that could have run my Silverado for a week!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:18 pm

Gawd, I love Steampunk....Looks like a Tesla....

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:36 pm

One posit by a poster suggests that it is a late 1800s "Watchman's Lantern/gun" because the lamp is apparently an 1881 "police lantern" of a specific european make....

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:40 pm

Now that is very cool!

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:43 pm

The lamp is a post 1881 Dietz
"bullseye" police lamp, that originally had a oil burner instead of the
candle.
...
If I had to "Venture" a Guess, this was a "Constable's" Pistol/Light Combination (a Late 18th century, Early 19-th century Police Officer Night Patrolman's Gun)...

Hawkeye2 · Post by **Hawkeye2** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:11 am

An 1880's lantern on a flintlock? I could believe it if it were a cartridge gun or a very much earlier lantern was on the flint pistol. They fit together like an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on the deck of the Constitution.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:01 am

Can you get them in stainless???

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:04 am

Hawkeye2 wrote:An 1880's lantern on a flintlock? I could believe it if it were a cartridge gun or a very much earlier lantern was on the flint pistol. They fit together like an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on the deck of the Constitution.

We are talking Europe here...

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:43 am

gamekeeper wrote:Can you get them in stainless???

You mean "stained less"?

Panzercat · Post by **Panzercat** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:31 pm

gamekeeper wrote:Can you get them in stainless???

That WAS stainless

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 12:46 am

Wow. Very interesting!

tman · Post by **tman** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:46 pm

Coon gun.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 4:49 pm

Now THAT is the coolest gun I have ever seen! Whoever dreamed that up must have wanted to get even with a wolve that blocked his path to the privy last week. Like ma said, "Thar aint nothing new under the sun! Once I challenged her when she told me there was no two snowflakes alike.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:11 pm

And now, for your entertainment and enlightenment...

Here is the MODERN equivalent!!!

Swiss Army Rifle.jpg

I think our resident Doc has a tricked-out A/R & lever with some goodies on it...

Old No7

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