Trapdoor identification indian scout?

[TeamMiller]

Hello everyone, This is my first post!!!

I have here an 1884 marked trapdoor, it looks like an 1888 round rod bayonet but i am not sure, here are some bad pics, but you may be able to start. I will take better ones soon.. can anyone tell me anything about the uss and crossed arrows silver emblem on the stock?

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[TeamMiller]

Here are a few more pics,

Thanks in advance evryone

[Emri]

Yes, that is a rod bayonet model. I don't have a clue about the "decorations".

HTH,

Emri

[KenK]

Close as I could come to your question. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...fScoutFlag.jpg

[lboos]

My thinking is, the gun being a rifle instead of a carbine, which would be the weapon you would think a cav. scout would have used in the 1890s.
The rifle being made in 1884 with a indain scout badge [USS between two crossed arrow's] on it which was used from 1890 to 1926.
Im a long way from being an expert, it just look's to good to be true, maybe some one here that has more knowledge can help?
It is a great looking old gun.
That is not a 9th or 10th Texas indian scout emblem.

[smellie]

Seminole-Negro Scouts unit was disbanded only in 1914, so an '84 rifle is possible.

THREE Medals of Honor!

Haven't seen something this nice since I was a kid! Remember the brass-tacked '66 Winchsters in the hardware store at Hargrave (population 75).

BTW for you jaded guys: there are still Very Nice Things out there. Custer was killed with Crooked Lightning Gun; it still has not surfaced. VERY powerful Medicine, that one!
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[lboos]

BTW for you jaded guys: there are still Very Nice Things out there. Custer was killed with Crooked Lightning Gun; it still has not surfaced. VERY powerful Medicine, that one!

could you explane what your talking about?...crooked lightning gun, it still has not surfaced , and very powerful medicine .

[A square 10]

i think he is alluding to indian folklore regarding the rifle used to end the last stand , ive no new info to add , but the idea is that its closely held within the inner circle and highly revered , the few friends i had among the nation all spoke of it but i cant really say they were believable any more than my comments here ...........just no facts , only verbal comments

i think i hear sounds of 'gary owen'

"I can hear firing to the north, the continued booming of field guns and the crackle of rifles. Custer is dead as is most of his command. His mad plunge down the coulee toward the center of the Indian village met with disaster. Custer was hit at least once while charging at the head of his column just as we entered the water of the Little Big Horn. The massed Indian fire was appalling. The cavalry column seemed to freeze, saddles emptied, and our ranks were broken by the screaming hordes of red Indians. About half of the 210 men that Custer led toward the river were able to turn and flee to the surrounding buttes where we were able to hold off the enemy until Benteen could arrive. Custer and his brothers Tom and Boston along with two dozen troopers dismounted on the first high hill from the river. A protective cordon of troopers tried to protect the wounded Custer, but the advancing Indians quickly overran them. The last time that I saw the General, he had struggled to his feet, placed his revolver to his own head, and pulled the trigger. Our contingency managed to hold the hostiles at bay with our sustained fire and the fact that large numbers of the hostiles stopped at Custer's hill to disembowel and dismember their fallen foes. Benteen, after linking up with the remnants of Reno's command, finally began to force the Indians up stream. An Indian rear guard action allowed the squaws to break camp and the entire gathering of Indians began to move up the valley. Benteen and Reno ceased the attack, coming to us, and together we have set up a defensive perimeter strong enough to prevent the Indians from over-running our position."

who knows - none of us today were there

[lboos]

A square 10,
Just courious, could you tell me where you read this, and who wrote it?

[RETREAD]

If the Insignia inletted into the stock is authentic, it is worth a small pile of money by itself.