Russian hunting rifle of the Sestroretsky factory, 1827

An extremely rare and interesting find of our store is a very long hunting rifle made at the Sestroretsk Arms Factory. Russian rifles themselves are very rare, and factory-made (unlike private masters), they do not occur at all. The presented rifle can be an excellent purchase in any private or museum collection as a rare example of a Russian long-barreled hunting weapon of the reign of Emperor Nicholas I.

The gun has a smooth barrel with sighting devices consisting of a very small front sight and a diopter sight. The lock is flint, of the French battery type. This type of castle was created in 1610 by a French gunsmith from Lisieux (Normandy) Marin Le Bourgeois (1550-1634). It was an order of magnitude more reliable than the wheel, thanks to which it spread throughout the world for the next three centuries, as the main mechanism of hand firearms. To prepare such a lock for a shot, the shooter had to (having loaded the weapon itself, that is, having hammered a powder charge, a bullet and a wad into the barrel), put the trigger on the safety platoon; open the shelf lid; if necessary, clean the seed hole; pour a small portion of gunpowder on the shelf; close the lid; put the trigger on the combat platoon. The trigger is steel, reinforced with a single screw. The abbreviation is punched on the key board "STRCC" (one of the variants of the brand of the Sestroretsk arms Factory) and the date of release of the product is 1827. The powder shelf is brass, the lid is steel. The trigger is steel, slightly pronounced C-shaped. The trigger guard is brass, oval in shape. The bed is wooden, the forearm is 4/5 of the trunk. A steel ramrod is embedded in the forearm. The back of the butt is L-shaped, brass.

very good, traces of metal cleaning, scratches and scuffs around the perimeter. The lock is working, the spring is tight.