Video at the source.
Shooting fish in a barrel?
I see rifles having been lost in boating accidents is not a new phenomenon.
I want sumpin I can doggone Shoot!
That’ll give a few history buffs some sleepless nights.
The original pistol grip!
Where’s the BATFE?
I would not guess that there were a lot of people in that area of Wisconsin in 1815. Chicago wasn’t founded until 1830. Fort Dearborn was built in 1803, but was burned down in 1813.
Surprisingly this assault weapon is in remarkable shape considering the time it spent on the bottom a lake.
I have a 200+ year old pistol that was found on the Yorktown Virginia battlefield. I bought it 50 years ago at a yard sale in Yorktown for $10 the barrel is missing but the carving on the handle and the brass engraving is there. I wouldn’t take anything for it.
200 year old Flintlock rifle fished out of Lake Winnebago.
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-PJ
ID this catch! ;)
Chingachkuk— please pick up the white courtesy phone- we found your Kentucky long barrel- needs a little work.
I don’t know, the gun is cool, but I would rather have been the off-duty cop who reeled in $12 million worth of cocaine while he was fishing :)
Probably not a rifle: looks like a Trade Musket, the kind that used to made for the Indians as barter for furs.
The owner likely fell thru the ice or dropped it out of a canoe......There could very well be the remnants of a body somewhere on the bottom of the lake.
Not worth anything.
In good shape they are not worth nearly what someone thinks they are.
That barrel looks long even by musket standards.
Looks almost like it’s something an Arab would use so he didn’t shoot his camels brains out.
Possibly something used at a fort and not carried.
a buy back disposal ?
No way! Lake Wobegon is a mythical... oh wait, never mind!