Indian gun

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a type of muzzle-loader prominent among the trading goods of the fur companies.

Quotations

1784

Two picking oakum, Armr. mending Indian guns.

1913

I never did get up to the use of the "Indian gun" nor get over my surprise at the fine shooting the natives did with it.