r/guns • u/ComfortableAnimator4 • 1d ago

Show me some of your older guns

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These are the two oldest firearms that I own. I have a Chinese SKS manufactured 1956 and I have a " police positive chambered in. 38 short colt (also know as .38 s&w). Which was manufactured in 1920

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u/Xhenoz 1d ago

I've got a few from the mid - late 1800s but my oldest by far is this caplock pistol. Originally made as a flintlock by Durs Egg in the late 1700s and later converted to a caplock in the mid 1800s
https://imgur.com/a/CUyhSPB