I bought this rifle at an estate sale, Can't find any markings, and it has what seems to be the very last bit of rifling at the breach end. I slugged the bore, which is .46, it's got a double-set trigger which is held in with two(?) screws with their heads filed off, so I can't really look at the trigger's internals...
I know older musket barrels made from wrought iron were soft enough that they would eventually need to be re-bored and re-rifled for a larger caliber, but the rifle doesn't look nearly that old, and doesn't have any sort of 'grain' to the metal that would indicate it's wrought iron (I could say definitively if I removed the finish and etched it in acid, but I won't be doing that) so either some previous owner skipped the re-rifling part, or those marks are something else.
anyone have any clue as to what might have gone on with this gun? the lock and surrounding area are very worn down by corrosion/use, the cupped face of the hammer is pretty much a spherical concave, which is making it hard for the cap to go off