Build #17

[woody]

Started build #17. 12ga. blanket gun

[hotfxr]

You need a special gun to shoot blankets?   




Sorry, washed over by a sudden good mood, I just can't help myself. 

[old salt]

hotfxr shame on you are going to make folks think we are dumb  as I look.

[Hawken50]

       Cant wait to see this one Woody....please look over the smart alec,,  Cant keep him chained up all the time....

[woody]

Heck I've seen some nasty blankets in my days.....besides I built one for canoe hunting awhile back if'n yall recall!   

[William]

Ignore the cracks out of the Peanut Gallery and build away, I'm looking forward to seeing #17 come together.

[hotfxr]

Smart Alec? I have never claimed to be smart and my name is not Alec. At least I don't think it is. As much as I hate to promulgate my ignorance, I have never heard of a blanket gun. But I am going to go out on a limb here and assume (I know, I know) that a blanket gun is a smaller version of a canoe gun. (Being a blanket wraps around you so close that even Red Badger could hit it) I would even go so far as to guess it gets it's moniker by way of being able to be hidden under a lap blanket , say on a stage coach or train. How close am I?  Regardless of it's purpose in life, I am confident that if Woody builds it, it will be a fine example of a blanket gun.

[old salt]

Please forgive us for our out burst some times I confuses the pink pills for the red ones. I too am looking forward to this build




                                                       

[Red Badger]

Woody,
Your builds are an inspiration to those of us with eyes to see the beauty of your creations,  Please forgive our Californian brother ( Brother, in the loosest sense possible) as he has been so poisoned  living in that den of inequity he has forgotten even the most basic of rules here.... 

Carry on with the build and I hope to see pictures of another master creation of yours.... and just to enlighten us exactly what is a blanket gun? 

Red Badger

[beowulf]

Smart Alec? I have never claimed to be smart and my name is not Alec. At least I don't think it is. As much as I hate to promulgate my ignorance, I have never heard of a blanket gun. But I am going to go out on a limb here and assume (I know, I know) that a blanket gun is a smaller version of a canoe gun. (Being a blanket wraps around you so close that even Red Badger could hit it) I would even go so far as to guess it gets it's moniker by way of being able to be hidden under a lap blanket , say on a stage coach or train. How close am I?  Regardless of it's purpose in life, I am confident that if Woody builds it, it will be a fine example of a blanket gun.

you might find this interesting !  http://www.firearmstalk.com/19th-Century-gun-hacks-Native-peoples-modified-rifles-canoe-gun-blanket-gun-firearms-talk.html

[Watauga]

You need a special gun to shoot blankets?   




Sorry, washed over by a sudden good mood, I just can't help myself. 

Woody,  I hope you are not having trouble protecting things on your Trade Blanket    But a 12 gauge should sure do the trick.....

[woody]

You need a special gun to shoot blankets?   




Sorry, washed over by a sudden good mood, I just can't help myself. 

Woody,  I hope you are not having trouble protecting things on your Trade Blanket    But a 12 gauge should sure do the trick.....

It's for a friend, his barrel and lock. I'd say it should cover it and then some!

[Hanshi]

In the old tv western "Wanted Dead or Alive" starring the late Steve McQueen, the cut down Winchester repeater he called a "mare's leg", was a blanket gun.  He used a holster but.....
They are great weapons until you have to fire one.  Woody, yours will of, course, be a masterpiece as is your usual art.

[Jesse168]

I always thought a blanket gun was one built to be put on the trade blanket.
Jesse

[woody]

Due to the holidays, weather and other obligations I haven't gotten as far on it as I had hoped but at this point, bbl. in and pinned, butt plate, trigger and guard made, lock inlet, ram rod channel cut and drilled. As soon as I get the trigger and butt plate installed it'll be on to shaping.

As far as the names blanket gun, canoe gun, coach gun, etc., they are all modern or period terms given to these firearms, be they manufactured or cut down,  most likely reflect the way they may have been used or documented to have been used. For example, some of these cut down guns were among the weapons hidden under their blankets by Pontiac's followers at Fort Detroit (On May 7 1763, Pontiac entered the fort with about 300 men, armed with weapons hidden under blankets, determined to take the fort by surprise.) Plains Indians often used these cut down gun for hunting buffalo on horseback (often referred to as a buffalo runner gun).  A modern example, 18 in. bbl. shotgun (riot gun), the same shotgun with a youth length shoulder stock and a 14 in. bbl. (entry gun). No matter what we call them they most certainly did and do exist....besides...that's what he wants and  he can call it whatever he likes, I'm just happy to build it for him.