Which long gun for fireplace décor?

[lionking]

Well you could march to the beat of your own drum away from the traditional, and while warming by the fire always help to remind you that thankfully you live in Alaska, and not in California, NY, NJ, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington state, Illinois, and soon to be Virginia.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

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Interesting use of what appears to be pallet wood. Up here, we build sheds, and sometimes homes, out of that stuff.

 

[Kleanbore]

Was there a decision?

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Was there a decision?

LOL. Sort of but not really? I'm leaning toward some sort of flintlock. However, that fireplace has become a backdrop to zoom meetings that are required for my work, so I've postponed putting anything up yet. I did put up a nice caribou antler shed though. In any event, we've decided to, at some point in the next couple years, to rip the entire fireplace out and replace it with a wood burning stove, so...I'm not sure how that will all go back together and where a gun would go.

 

[Ivy Mike]

Embodies America?

Nickel plated revolver with mother of pearl grips and a can of Cheez Wiz.

 

[CoalTrain49]

An old double hammer 12 gauge side by side. Preferably a damascus barrel.

You can find those old timers around in pawn shops and online for cheap. Most are antique black powder breach loaders so no FFL needs to get involved to ship. The hammer gun thingy went out of vouge around the turn of the century, not the last one but the one before that.

The Alaska gold rush happened in 1899. I'm sure there were plenty of hammer guns in Alaska around that time. We had and used an old Remington hammer gun when I was in high school in AZ in the 60's.

https://sportingclassicsdaily.com/last-of-the-great-hammer-guns/

Flintlocks in AK? Nobody even knew Alaska existed until 1898. Flintlocks were long gone by then amigo. AK isn't KY.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Embodies America?

Nickel plated revolver with mother of pearl grips and a can of Cheez Wiz.

"They're ivory. Only a pimp in a cheap New Orleans whore house would carry a pearl-handled pistol." - George S. Patton

 

[valnar]

Well this doesn't evoke America, but I have my Swedish Mauser m/96 above mine for one specific reason - it's too long for my safe! It also happens to be a very nice rifle that functions, so I'm not putting up something fake. I'm not worried about it being stolen where I live and with my security system.

 

[Robbins290]

I have a M91 Finland capture above the fireplace.

 

[Drifter27]

Apparently I dont know how to quote. What Lion king said +1000

Im waiting for a certain someone to go to a conference before putting something similar up

 

[crestoncowboy]

I don't have any guns over either of my fireplaces. But I do have an old Hamilton side by side hanging on one one side of my pool table and an 1898 marlin pump on the other. Hammer fired pump shotguns look good and old. Plus could still be useful. The old double was actually found in a barn that burned. Be interesting to know it's story but the gun is worthless

 

[Ignition Override]

..."flintlock or percussion or musket".

Yes. Character and living history.

 

[Terry G]

Trapdoor, butchered.

 

[AFSG]

I have a real Pennsylvania long rifle hanging in my house made by James Bown and Sons between 1830 and 1870.

 

[SharpDog]

I would suggest something like this. Easy to take on an airline and it will come in handy if you, say, suddenly find yourself backpacking:

 

[theotherwaldo]

ed.

I've got his uglier brother.
Sad, really.
Not something that I'd put over my mantle- if I had a mantle.

 

[tactikel]

Brown Bess.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

I'm sure glad someone brought this back from the grave. (That's my one and only Halloween pun.) I've thoroughly enjoyed re-reading every comment.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

An ‘03 Springfield or M1 rifle.

Loaded.

 

[Paul R Zartman]

A beat up pre 64 94 would be cool...or a Damascus SXS ... but what you prefer would be best...

 

[Kleanbore]

I'm sure glad someone brought this back from the grave

Happy to do so.

I like old guns.

I do like wood stoves. That would influence the decor.

I f it ware for me so say, I would choose something civilian, American, and fitting with the settlement of Alaska.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

...I would choose something civilian, American, and fitting with the settlement of Alaska.

That would pretty much narrow it down to some sort of lever action. Winchester 92, 94, or 95; Marlin 94 or Savage 99.

 

[Kleanbore]

That would pretty much narrow it down to some sort of lever action. Winchester 92, 94, or 95; Marlin 94 or Savage 99.

Or shotgun.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Or shotgun.

True. Although I think rifles are more common hunting tools up here. Our waterfowl season is really short (30-50 days.)

You know, your earlier comment gives a new idea. I could go with more than one display gun. I could break my ideas down into themes. For example, the Anchorage Museum, at one time, had a display on "How Alaskans Eat." It had a lot of food from the 1940s-60s. Something that was displayed for subsistence hunting was a Model 54 bolt gun, a Model 12 shotgun, and I forget what 22 rifle was there, along with vintage boxes of ammo. I could do something like that. Or, to break with your civilian motif, I could go with a WWII Castner's Cutthroats theme; those guys carried either an M1 Rifle or their own personal hunting rifle, and a Colt Woodsman pistol.

 

[Ivy Mike]

An ‘03 Springfield or M1 rifle.

Loaded.

Nothing embodies 'murrica like a German rifle and a Canadian rifle.