Need help identifying an OLD rifle..

[browningautorifle]

The rifle would have just used a round ball

Still, a round ball with spin imparted will fly better than one driven at speed.

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[Eaglelord17]

That is a pretty darn big chunk of lead. Would you gents be willing to put a rough guess on a date? Down to a decade or two? ��

Unfortunately I don't know enough about these rifles to put that accurate a date, however based on my limited knowledge I do know that rifling was becoming popular (for the wealthy) in the mid-1700s, and percussion technology became popular around 1816 and later, so I guess that puts your rifle somewhere in the 1750s-1800s, unless someone more knowledgeable has a better guess (I am just doing a rough guess based on what little I know, my area of expertise is bolt action rifles).

Still, a round ball with spin imparted will fly better than one driven at speed.

100%. Also likely the reason it doesn't have a range elevation as your accuracy would be gone long before you needed to raise the elevation.

OP definitely a cool rifle, thanks for sharing. I really enjoy learning things about firearms that are outside my primary area of interest.