Talk:A Captain at Fifteen (Pyatnadtsatiletniy kapitan)

Harris's Rifle

I do not think that this is a Berdan, but rather some kind of percussion lock rifle. Firstly, there is a side plate on left side of the stock, which is not there on the Berdan and implies that there is some kind of lock plate on the right side. Secondly, there is no cheek rest on the Berdan. Thirdly, That vertical tab on the Berdan is a spur on the back of the striker to cock it, so it comes out of the back of the cylindrical receiver. On this gun you can see that at the point where the spur on this rifle is the receiver/barrel has ended and there is just the wooden stock at this point. My guess is that this is the hammer of a percussion lock, as I think it is actually mounted on the right side of the gun. --commando552 (talk) 11:29, 14 December 2015 (EST)

Your arguments are convincing so I concur. This vertical piece baffled me. Many thanks. Greg-Z (talk) 11:49, 14 December 2015 (EST)

It's only my guess, but I think, that percussion musket maybe the Infantry Musket M1845. Pyramid Silent (talk) 16:36, 14 December 2015 (EST)

Russian percussion cap musket M1845 - .70

It's not, as the screen gun has a different barrel, too long and with different shape of the muzzle part. There is some possibility that it's a Russian M1856 percussion lock rifle] but it cannot be confirmed or disproved. In fact it can be a military gun, converted for hunting and fitted with a non-standard long barrel, or maybe some musket of foreign origin, captured during some war of second half of XIX century, or something else. I don't think that we can identify the exact model. Greg-Z (talk) 02:29, 15 December 2015 (EST)