Daryl
I think there may be a bit of confusion - you have a false hammer gun by Moore & Grey and Joe also has one. Now I am no expert but I think your gun looks right and was built with dummy hammers. To convert a pin fire to a centre fire hammerless would have taken a complete rebuild to the mechanism - and why would you do that when you can simply drill through and put firing pins through and change the hammers over - wouldn't make sense. Now Joe's gun is different. Although there are 14 bore breechloaders it was a common muzzle loader calibre. I have to say that the cocking leavers on his gun do look a bit of an afterthought and not really in the style of the gun. Where the barrels fit the action it doesn't look quite right to me either. I am guessing it was a muzzle loader but exactly what I don't know. Again you have to ask the question ‘if it was a percussion then why replace a perfectly serviceable action with a completely new one?’. The back of the breach's look rounded so I doubt these ever had nipples - so these have probably been replaced as well. There appears to be more questions than answers to this one and maybe a real expert can shed some light. I could of course be completly wrong on both counts!!
John
