Shotgun soldier infantry of 1845 with an eye Enroth

Общая длина: 1465 мм.
Длина ствола: 1082 мм.
Калибр: 19 мм.

The original soldier's gun with a complete lack of repair interventions in an entirely original Assembly. Special value attaches to gun rare sight system of Enroth. Steel, wood, brass, forging, stamping. The barrel steel, round. The barrel without rifling. Sights consist of an oval longitudinal shape of the front sight and movable bar at the breech, designed by the engineer Anatom and introduced in 1855 with Prinyatie cylinder-hemispherical bullet Nessler to increase the accuracy of the guns. Especially for this bullet was introduced a special sight, consisting of two Shitikov interconnected by a hinge at a right angle, so that raising one sitic, down the other, which served as a heel for the first. Unfortunately, one of the flaps is missing. The gun is equipped with a pod lock. The trigger has cutting. Lock cap and ball percussion. Key-boards are located behind the trigger and is fastened with a screw. Handguard full length of the barrel. The barrel is mounted in the bed of the three brass Obamacare. Trigger guard is oval in the middle has the extension. Trigger C-shaped. On the trigger guard and one oboimina fixed two rings of rectangular shape. The shank ends with a brass overlay.

• At the breech is stamped the following stamps: image of the eagle, year of release of the product – 1847, image bow and arrow, the Russian double-headed eagle in a circular cartouche, the part number, No. 6825.

• On the Board there prosterto the mark of the manufacturer made in the form of inscriptions "IGY" (Izhevsk arms factory) and the date of manufacture of the product – 1847.

• On the trigger guard, the butt tylnik and abuminah stamped hallmarks: 1847 (date of manufacture), "f" (first letter of the surname of the inspector?), bow and arrow (the mark of the Izhevsk plant), and "A".

Visual inspection of gun evidence of the authenticity of all its parts, and good sound, despite the surface corrosion on the metal, scratches and small scuffs on the stock.

The most perfect example of the smoothbore weapons of the Russian army was the infantry rifle of the samples 1845 and 1852. Their development began with the end of the 1830s, when the government began to look for ways to transfer the army to the gun with a shock cap and ball lock. In the period from 1839 to 1844 gg has been tested system Montana, Bordino, Zhitinsky, Hartely, Reclus, jolie, Minya, etc., but none of the proposed systems did not satisfy the Committee on the improvement of fittings and guns. In 1842 Colonel Glinka was sent to the Committee a report on the newly adopted in France on the arms of the shock gun mod. 1842, caliber 18 mm. the French is not limited to the release of the new guns, to the stream was also raised alteration of the old flintlock guns to percussion. It should be noted that at this time the Russian army largely imitated the French, in consequence of which, with minor changes, in 1845 adopted a new sample gun, which was almost an exact copy of the French mod., 1842. The bed was made of dry birch and walnut wood. Iron ramrod consisted of a cylindrical stem and a conical head with savinovna socket for screwing pirinica.