Peruvian home made blackpowder gun

Posted March 8, 2009 in Rifles by Steve Johnson with 4 Comments
Tags: blackpowder, blackpower, homemade, peru, rifle, rifles

James of Hell in a Handbasket spotted this photo on a Peruvian travel blog. It is homemade percussion lock gun. The owner apparently uses homemade gun powder (not hard to do … but kids don’t try this at home).

If you have read this blog for a while, you know how much I like examining homemade guns 🙂

Smooth bore or rifled? Probably smoothbore, looks like a pipe for a barrel.

More info about the gun at Hell in a Handbasket.

Steve Johnson

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