horsemaster

I don't think it would be. When you consider that camels carry far heavier loads. The rifle being heavy would cut the recoil by quite a bit. And the recoil would be distributed evenly over the back of the camel via the saddle. This would greatly reduce the perceived recoil. I don't even remember where I saw the picture. I do know that it had to be in a book as I was not using computers at that time. I wonder about the caliber. .62? .68? .72? The recoil from a .58 is not bad and I know folks that shoot .68 caliber rifled muskets in Rev. War reinactments. I don't think that this weapon would hace had a hard kick at all. It probably used paper or linen cartridges. I sure wish I could get a better look at the weapon. I would like to see if there is any writing on it anywhere.

Being quite the gun nut I'll put my two cents in. It seem to me that I've seen pictures of men on camels with a weapon mounted to the saddle. The weapons had something like that on them. I hope that helps.

Nice HSc. It's in much better shape than mine.