Found a gun today at a Texas farm...

[linx310]

Found at a friends place today while clearing out some brush....

Any idea what it is?

It is single action and when I pull the trigger the hammer still works. If I can find out what it is I am gonna get a cylinder for it.

Only markings I could find where some type of serial # on the barrel.

[Prometheus168]

Its a pistol... that much I have determined...... other than that, it looks like a Colt......

Rusty

[swampdragon]

I'm not sure what it is exactly, but it damn sure looks like something Hondo owned at one time or another.

[AK-J]

Looks like a remington cap and ball revolver.. minus the cylinder and ram-rod assembly

[linx310]

Found out what it is...its a Whitney revolver. I found a few more markings that said N. Haven and looked it up. They were made from the late 1850s to early 1860s and they did serve during the civil war.

[alismith]

Check out Dixie Gun works for more info and parts. They have a lot of parts for obsolete BP firearms.

http://www.dixiegun.com/

[Vorkutinetz]

cool find, man. Nice.

[AKTexas]

I'm not sure what it is exactly, but it damn sure looks like something Hondo owned at one time or another.

[gpwasr10]

I'm not sure what it is exactly, but it damn sure looks like something Hondo owned at one time or another.

HAHAHAHAHAH, this place is the fucking greatest

[Maser**]

I hope you turn that over to the proper authorities.

[Prometheus168]

I hope you turn that over to the proper authorities.

And who would that be?

Rusty

[mriddick]

Does the action still work? That is a very neat find and not in too bad of shape. I wonder if it's been outside long? Since you can see the serial number you might ask the local LEO's to run it.

[skorpion]

I hope you turn that over to the proper authorities.

Sure, Maser, if you are so worried about it you can go ahead and dig up the grave of a 19th century law enforcement officer, inform him that the rusty frame of a mid-1800s blackpowder single-action revolver was found on a farm, and hand it over to him. These nasty baby-killing assault blackpowder single-actions are being used thousands of times per day on horse-back ride-by shootings and we don't need these out on the dirt streets. I found a squirt gun once, I guess I should have handed it over to the water gun police.

With that said, interesting piece of history you found there, Linx. Makes you wonder how long ago that revolver was forgotten and whether or not it was used in the Civil War at one point.

[American Rage]

Very cool, Linx310.


Rage

[NAPOTS]

I hope you turn that over to the proper authorities.

For a troll you're not a very good one. You know you can get a reproduction shipped to your front door right?
Let me guess you are a member of the brady bunch that believes that all handguns should be registered if not banned outright.

[shadow65]

That is sweet. You just can't help wondering about the history behind it.
I found an old bull barrel .22 rifle in my Grandmother's shed once. Had a new firing pin put in. Still works.
Dave

[O.S.O.K.]

Its a Whitney

I knew it wasn't a Colt or a Remington but would've had to research it some to find the match. Well done.

And you can add Buffalo Arms to the list of parts sources. But Dixie probably has what you need.

Cool!

[sevlex]

And who would that be?

Rusty

Me, of course.

[AKTexas]

Great find!Who was it that fished up a Mini-30?

[dfariswheel]

Long, long ago, a lot of these "worthless" old guns were given to the kids to play with and they got lost in gardens and fields.
Generations later they turn up and make us wonder about the history they must have seen.

Being in Texas, I can pretty well guess that it didn't lay in some desk drawer when it was newer.