powderhead,

The history behind them would be interesting. You might want to give the bottom one a closer look...don't think many break-action Favorites were  made.       

OH ME! and I new it was a Marksman.  Just wasn't thinking as I typed.  As far as legality goes, neither is any where near functional nor could ever be again.  Thanks for the heads up though.

That makes perfect sense, especially for someone without any means to scrounge up a Stevens 35.

Chuck,

Now you've got me thinking about late nights and carbide lamps.    
       

My dad was a dedicated coon hunter back in the day. Think he quit in the late 1950's. He always used a .22 rifle as I recall.

Climb the tree, shoot at less than ten feet. Don't damage the face. Cut the price of the hide in half. Teen age boys, would not, could not do it now.
Chuck

As someone has said above, "...finding relic guns is always nice to have happened..."

That statement is especially true if one were to fine buried Civil War guns, and any and all other Civil War relics.  Of course, if such relics are found on a National Battlefield owned by the U.S. Government, the item/s legally belong to the citizens of the U.S. and are, accordingly, required to be turned in for safe keeping.   

Having said that, I would be remiss if I didn't add that there were troop movements and encampment all around Gettysburg on lands that are actually outside of the Park Service boundary lines.  Most of this private land is in cultivation and relics are continuously being un-earthed during plowing operations and after heavy rain falls. 

I have a friend who's father found a percussion Sharps carbine laying up in one of the rafters of a hay barn in the 1940's where a cavalry trooper placed it on his way out of Gettysburg after the battle.  I understand that many boys had had enough at Gettysburg and "wanted out" and desertion was the way they found peace.

Lots of munitions turning up still to this day in and around Gettysburg.

CMM