ARmy Rumour SErvice

**wrighty** · 26-06-2009, 01:22

Gents, could anyone shed some light on this rifle for me?

Its not from a dealer, some drunken old farmer in the Ukraine keeps it in his shed. Would like to know if it is collectable and to offer the old bloke a half decent price if it is.

Cheers!

**Sparky2339** · 26-06-2009, 01:30

A Daisy BB rifle from the US of A??

edited to add;

Sorry, is it a single shot rifle? Does the action break etc?

Are you working just from a photo or have you handled it youreself?

**wrighty** · 26-06-2009, 02:00

Photo at the moment, my boss took them. The old geezer swears blind its British from the Crimean war, i highly doubt it but you never know.

**whiffler** · 26-06-2009, 07:24

If it's from the Crimea it might even be Naval, as there were small raids/landing/sabotage parties.

Not sure whether rifles were their thing at that time, or whether matelots would still have been more comfortable with cutlasses.

**4(T)** · 26-06-2009, 07:50

Doesn't look like anything British military. Probably a cheap Belgian/ European trade shotgun or garden gun. Maybe a Flobert.

**polar69** · 26-06-2009, 07:52

Looks like a piece of crap to bo honest, more shotgun than rifle

**wrighty** · 26-06-2009, 14:10

Cheers, yep i'm going with worthless crap atm!

**para_medic** · 26-06-2009, 15:35

Looks a bit like these:

well, a cheap and shitty version anyway...

**Mag_to_grid** · 26-06-2009, 15:40

Does look like a cheap garden gun, type used for killing mice and other small vermin.

**tropper66** · 26-06-2009, 15:40

I think it's a German Army long barreled flare gun, The action most certanly is and I think some were made to fire a small granade only I can't remember the number but they were made by HEBAL from the 1880s