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Unread 05-09-2025, 11:50 AM   #21
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Art, I took some measurements and yes, the metal cap is a friction fit, hence not waterproofed.
The length with the cap is 3 3/4 and only 3 1/4 without the cap.
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Unread 05-09-2025, 12:58 PM   #22
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Is it some kind of game call Angel?
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Daryl, I don't think so. The way the metal cap fits, I think it was meant to hold something.
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Possibly a quick loader for a large (4 or 6) bore single barrel muzzle loading shotgun? The capped tube would hold the pre measured powder charge, the hole in the end would work for a neck lanyard. Wads and shot flask would be carried separately. I said a single barrel because I can't imagine anyone having just fired a 10 or 12 Dram right and left would want to quickly fire a third and fourth.
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What does that marking on the side of the cylinder say?
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It says Made in Italy.
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Those dimensions around the head and rim are very close to an 8 gauge industrial shotshell, which incidentally, fit my 1873 W&C Scott and my 1876 Webley.
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