Crescent Firearms company

[Charlie Strong Horse]

I just got a Crescent firearms Peerless Model SxS hammerless double.

I cant find any information on this gun as to whether it is damascus barrels or not.

Does any one have any oppinions as to whether it would be safe to shoot.

Any replies would be appreciated.

 

Charlie

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Plenty of information on Crescent on the Internet. Try highroad.org.

[Red Hooker]

There is a test you can do to determine if you have Damascus or twist barrels or solid barrels. You sandpaper away the finish in a small patch of the barrel in an inconspicuous area (the undeside of the breech, for example). Then apply a little acid, using appropriate precautions- eye protection, gloves, et c. This should show up any pattern in the metal due to the layering. If no pattern, it's a solid steel barrel.

Oddly, this test was originally designed to determine if a barrel was a "painted" solid steel barrel being fraudulently passed off as a "superior" (as they then believed) Damascus barrel.

This sandpapering shouldn't adversely affect the value of the gun, as it was originally an El Cheapo, mass-market grade of gun in the first place, the sort of thing Farmer Brown would keep in the barn to kill foxes in the henhouse.

[Fairshake]

Cresent Gun Co. made several guns for different people. During that time period a hardware store would have Cresent make the gun and put the name of the store on the barrel. They were your basic plain vanilla type of gun but very capable of doing the intended job.

[Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795]

My shooting partner has one labeled from a Hardware store in the Cleveland area. Picked it up at an antique store, had a firing pin made and it's basically been his main match gun ever since......Buck

[Bramble Mountain Buzzard]

The Crescent brand was usually a cheap hardware store brand