Mountain rifles at Grayling Long Range Artillery Match

[Artilleryman]

Some different examples of mountain rifles at Grayling this year.  There are a couple in this group that I know very little of, but hope to learn more about.



Pack Parrott, 2.9 inch bore.



Ellsworth, 1.5 inch bore.



Hughes gun, 1.6 inch bore.



British mountain rifle,  this gun had two sets of sights, and the barrel could be removed just ahead of the trunnions.



Details unknown to me.

[steelcharge]

Really cool pictures, thanks for posting!

The last one, I think, is a Broadwell mountain gun?

[KABAR2]

From other photos the carraige looks wrong and the tube is not long enough... to be a broadwell .... The tube may be a Krupp bag gun the carriage may be new made... Krupp used stampings for the cheeks they were not rivet and plate construction.....
http://www.bulgarianartillery.it/Bulgarian%20Artillery%201/Broadwell%2060mm_Gb.htm
I believe the negitive may have been reversed... as it is set up to open to the right instead of the left....not carraige is very different......
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimrw863Y5c
one of Cannonmn's video's I believe he has it mounted on a period carriage but not the correct on for that gun...
 

[steelcharge]

The reason I wasn't sure about it being a Broadwell was exactly the carriage as it looked strange.. but I've never seen a Krupp gun with such a front sight and all Broadwell's I've seen have just that type of front sight.
The tube in the picture also looks exactly like one Broadwell gun on a pack saddle in one picture I have.
The Bulgarian Artillery link you posted about 6cm Broadwell gun, shows a picture of some early Krupp mountain gun.

[Artilleryman]

This gun has a vicious recoil.  I wish I had a video that shows it going off.

[Double D]

Looks like a Britsh screw gun!  Shades of Kipling!