The gun show in Escanaba, MI, Part 1

Yesterday was the annual fall gun show at the Ruth Butler building on the grounds of the U.P. state fairgrounds in Escanaba, Michigan. We always make it a point to go to this show because it's one of the better shows in the Upper Peninsula. Of course, they always have the usual variety of firearms at this show, as well as reloading supplies and firearms related stuff. I always go to look at the vintage and antique firearms, that's my main interest in guns. I took a bunch of pictures of the older guns, as well as a couple pictures of not so old guns that I found interesting.

Here are some of the old guns that I found interesting. This is an old British made double barrel rifle of the kind that was used in India for hunting large animals such as tigers in the 1800s.

This gun has the old 3 leaf express sights that were popular on safari guns of the period.

On the same table was a Remington Rolling Block that was chambered for 20 gauge shotgun shells. This is the first Remington Rolling Block shotgun that I've personally seen. It's the gun in the middle of the picture. The Remington Rolling Block action has been around since the late 1860s, and was chambered in many different cartridges over the next 40 to 50 years of manufacture.

Then there was the old double barrel shotguns. There was a lot of these old, and not so old double barrel shotguns for sale at this show, in various gauges.

This is a modern reproduction of the 1863 Sharps carbine. These were used in the second half of the Civil War and were 54 caliber with a rifled barrel. These carbines used a paper cartridge that was loaded into the breech, and when the breech was closed, it would cut the end off the paper cartridge to expose the black powder charge to the sparks from the percussion musket cap that was used to fire the charge.

And for a little variety, a Thompson submachine gun. This is a modern made semi auto only version. Also in the picture, a semi auto version of the AK-47.

I have more pictures from the gun show, but I didn't want to make this post overly big, so I'll do another post tomorrow with the rest of the pictures that I took. More antique and vintage firearms for your viewing pleasure.

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