1911A1,

One of my hunting pards from Llano county was contacted by a family member in Fritztown that had a pair of guns they wanted to sell. And they knew he was an indivitual interested in such things. Anyway he ended up with them both. A rifle (with a pillared breech for the Tigne bullet system!) and a smoothbore. They had come withe the family from Germany in 1846. I don’t think there were any descendants left in the family interested in such things. Here they are (both in impeccable condition!).

Im holding them at our annual Llano co. Hog hunt.

Rifle
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Smoothbore

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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester

"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

WS