Need help identifying an OLD rifle..

[Patrick Chadwick]

Could you please post a photo of the top of the sight? Does the "bell" in the tower rotate or slide in any way?

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Any thoughts on what a bayonet for this thing might look like?

In the 18th C. it would probably have been a hunting-style broad knife, almost sword-like, with a straight quillon, thus effectively converting the front-end into a boar spear.

If you want to see what happens if you try to stop a wild boar with a more modern military bayonet, take a look at this:

Ungeeignete Ausrüstung kann lebensgefährlich sein (Seite 1 von 2) – Stöberhunde – Foren – Community Jagd – landlive.de

Which is why "Saüfänger" or "Hirschfänger" (google these words!) were very, very robust.