trapdoor with hole in hammer

[free1954]

109..jpg found this rifle with hole in hammer, anyone ever seen one before? thanks for looking.

[Dick Hosmer]

I would SUPPOSE it was a crude attempt by Bubba to speed-up the lock time, by lightening the hammer. I'm sure SA didn't do it!

[free1954]

thank you sir for your reply. if it was bubba'd it was very well done.

[jnz]

Don't know for sure, but I am wondering is someone wasn't trying to make it look like a flintlock hammer for a play or other production. Also, it may have been a bubba-ized way of attaching it to a wall via a screw passing through the hole and into the wall. The Cracker Barrel chain of restaurants does this to many fine antiques;(

[John Sukey]

It might have been a Movie gun. I think jnz could be right. Trapdoors were often used by hollywierd to stand in for flintlocks, some extra bits may have been added at one time. I do remember a scene from "Treasure Island" where long John Silver was using a trapdoor cut down into a pistol with some fake bits on the hammer.

[free1954]

thanks for the replies.

[jims8507]

On page 327 of the Frasca/Hill book 1 on the .45-70 Springfield, there are a couple of pictures of an experimental Springfield sight that is mounted through a hole in the hammer. This experimental setup looks similar to the hammer in your photo.

[free1954]

On page 327 of the Frasca/Hill book 1 on the .45-70 Springfield, there are a couple of pictures of an experimental Springfield sight that is mounted through a hole in the hammer. This experimental setup looks similar to the hammer in your photo.

thanks for the reply. i don't have that book and this is what the rifle looks like now. i found it last year in my friends scrap pile with the barrel lightly threaded into the reciever.