Shotgun Russian infantry soldier of 1845

The original soldier's rifle in good collectable condition. Steel, wood, brass, forging, stamping. The barrel steel, round. The barrel without rifling. Sights consist of an oval longitudinal shape of the front and rear sights. The lock capsule. On the key-Board stamp contains the abbreviation "T. O. C" (Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod) and the date of manufacture of the product – 1849. The trigger is smooth, strengthened with one winterpackages hook steel, C-shaped, smooth. Trigger guard is brass, round shape. Bed wooden handguard almost the entire length of the barrel. On the left side of the Lodge opposite the locking Board installed steel bracket. The barrel is fortified in bed with two aboitiz and screw on the tide in the breech (third, front oboimina missing). On the brass parts of the gun broken multiple acceptance mark. Tylnik the stock brass, smooth, l-shaped. On the tylnik punched the image of the Russian double-headed eagle and the number "99". In the fore-end embedded steel cleaning rod. The guarantee of authenticity. Visual inspection of gun evidence of the authenticity of all its parts, and good sound, despite the surface corrosion on the metal, scratches and small scuffs on the stock.

The most perfect example of the smoothbore weapons of the Russian army was the infantry rifle of the samples 1845 and 1852 years, Their development began with the end of the 1830s, when the government began to look for ways to transfer the army to the gun with a shock cap and ball lock. In the period from 1839 to 1844 gg has been tested system Montana, Bordino, Zhitinsky, Hartely, Reclus, jolie, Minya, etc., but none of the proposed systems did not satisfy the Committee on the improvement of fittings and guns. In 1842 Colonel Glinka was sent to the Committee a report on the newly adopted in France on the arms of the shock gun mod. 1842, caliber 18 mm. the French is not limited to the release of the new guns, to the stream was also raised alteration of the old flintlock guns to percussion. It should be noted that at this time the Russian army largely imitated the French, in consequence of which, with minor changes, in 1845 adopted a new sample gun, which was almost an exact copy of the French mod., 1842.