Unknown inheritance cool old gun

[ramairthree]

I had inherited a couple of guns from my father that were his dad's.

My uncle is pushing 90, and gave me a rifle I did not know about in the family.

It was my grand mother's.
I did not know about it.

She is from Canada.

Her mother was First Nations.
This was from her family, a wedding gift or dowry given to her father.

The leather is in horrible shape.

But the gun is close to 150 years old.

I can't see where the caliber is listed.
The firing pin is offset, so not center fire. One of the old 40 ish rim fires I guess.
Plan on it being a wallhanger as much as I would like to shoot it.

I never knew my grandmother had it. He got it from her.

He has a son and daughter, but we share an Infantry, airborne, Ranger history so we have always had a rapport. He was 101 for the big one then a Ranger company in Korea.

Photobucket is dead to me.
I hated Imgur.
So this is a google photo test.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dTr2AceuIXBMU8cw1

[Buckaroo]

Wow! That's very cool. I'm sure your grandma was a real empowered lady.
Great family legacy, please thank your uncle for his service!
Thank you as well for keeping my family safe.

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[Lefty223]

Nice! Am just guessing at 32 rimfire here. A non-takedown Remington rolling block, also guessing as a model 1 or 1-1/2 action, as dimensions are close and the length of the lower tang can tell the model. #1 sporters had a lower tang longer than the upper tang. You should find patent dates, the Rem roll mark and then the caliber up on the barrel flats, hidden by the materials.

First one I've seen (from my limited expeirence with them) with swivels to the barrel, so dayum that one had some use! Ah the stories it could tell.

Beads as a decoration were prevelent from most NDN tribes and I'd further opine the beads on the red portion were of more importance, perhaps signifying kills.

[sgtrock82]

Definitely a remington rolling block. They did chamber some in a 12.17×42 rimfire. Not sure about other rimfire chamberings

[ramairthree]

I still wonder how the hell it got where it did.

She was in her mid 90s and died about 17 years ago.
The gun dates about 25 years before she was born.
So it was five or six years old when her mom's family gave it to her Dad.

I don't think there was too much hot action war wise for a gun in Quebec from 1870 on up.

It did reportedly do a lot of hunting and get carried along on endless miles trapping.
That would explain the sling.

[sgtrock82]

Im sure it has its own story but these were very popular civilian hunting rifles with a great many made for civilian use so no military action or connection necessary to get it were it got to. Just money or trade

[ramairthree]

According to my Uncle,
It was her Dad's prized possession.

It replaced this,

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BMbB1Zff4sNeSnfF3

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KIzbYJhkUIKxonmi1

He had it checked out,
And was told it was a Civil War era British imported Yeoman Carbine.

Again, how the hell it ended up in Quebec in the hands of an immigrant making his own way in the world I have no idea.
Although when I look into the history of the time,
It seems very common for a francophone or anglophone dude to get off the boat in coastal Canada,
Make his way West enough to work hunting and trapping, take his earnings after a few years, grab a local wife, work a few more years and get a little land and build a cabin as the kids start entering the picture.

I apologize for the pictures.
Photobucket had become all but unmanageable,
Then became unusable.

Imgur is some weird social feeding thing I don't want to use.

I need to find the equivalent of what photobucket was about a dozen years ago.

This gun is in my hands at the moment but is going to another family member.

I never knew she had them.
They must have been in the attic.
Her husband's 1890 22WRF, Steven single shot .410, Sears Roebuck bolt action 12 Guage, and pair of 1950 ish Winchester model 70s in 30.06 and .270 were all I knew about.

[RazorBurn]

My family had an old rolling block rifle, but sadly it was stolen when we were robbed when I was a teenager. I didn't pay much attention to it back then other than I knew it was in 32 Rimfire.

Yours is certainly a neat rifle, and congratulations on the history you have inherited.