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Four-Barrel Mule Ear Custom Rifle from the 1850s (Ad-free) (Patreon)

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2025-08-09 12:00:07
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This is a custom rifle made by gunsmith P.E. Hall of Ashtabula, Ohio most likely between 1948 and 1854. It has a cluster of four .36 caliber rifles barrels (24 inches long) in an octagonal frame. The action is a quadruple set of mule ear hammers, two on each side, with a double set trigger. Pretty neat!

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Four-Barrel Mule Ear Custom Rifle from the 1850s (Ad-free)

This is a custom rifle made by gunsmith P.E. Hall of Ashtabula, Ohio most likely between 1948 and 1854. It has a cluster of four .36 caliber rifles barrels (24 inches long) in an octagonal frame. The action is a quadruple set of mule ear hammers, two on each side, with a double set trigger. Pretty neat! All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices: weaponsandwar.tv The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.forgottenweapons.com

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Glenn Miller

Fascinating firearm! If I were around then I most definitely would have tried to fire all 4 barrels at once. And definitely not a smart thing to do.

Paul Hofmann

This is a volley gun, a long range shotgun. The hammers on each side are meant to be cocked together. It`s got a set trigger because it has to trip all four sears at the same time, which probably requires too much force with a normal, unassisted trigger. That maybe also explains the broken trigger. While it is possible fire the barrels individually but I do not think that was the main intended purpose. It would not have been difficult to integrate a proper selection mechanism or to add half-cock notches for pre-capping all the barrels. It`s a four gun single shot ;-)