✅ SOLVED Trigger guard?

[Deftone]

I got out of my pickup and saw some metal sticking out.To avoid flats I had to pick it up. Sure looks like a trigger guard to me. Maybe a shotgun? Looking for opinions.

 

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[creskol]

It looks like a corn husker's iron.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I'd say trigger guard, hard to say what it came off of though

 

[creskol]

With the little protrusion as indicated by the red arrow and that shape hook, I am still saying it is a corn husker's iron. Also, it doesn't appear th have any tabs on it that would secure a trigger guard .

 

[smallfoot]

Maybe so creskol, but it looks like the tab was snapped off..

 

[smallfoot]

I used to have a couple of the hand cranked machines I picked up on an uncle's farm but had to look up other tools. Here is one I found of hand tools.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

All the corn huskers I've ever seen were made of flat metal, not cast. Cast wouldn't hold an edge. It sure looks like a broken version of this shotguns trigger guard to me

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Maybe. It's missing any method to attach to a stock so it's partial at best.

 

[Deftone]

I found it in front of my house circle driveway. These other pieces I found in a trash pit way behind my house. Thx for the replies so far.

 

[creskol]

All the corn huskers I've ever seen were made of flat metal, not cast. Cast wouldn't hold an edge. It sure looks like a broken version of this shotguns trigger guard to me

The shape of this piece has obviously been deformed, bent, or otherwise altered from its original state. Since cast iron is brittle hard and non-malleable, it can't be bent, stretched or hammered into shape. Its weak tensile strength means that it will fracture before it bends or distorts.

 

[l.cutler]

It does appear to be part of a triggerguard. It is only the loop around the trigger, both the front and back are missing so the attachment points are gone.

 

[Older The Better]

I think I’m seeing a buttplate in your other objects which would boost the argument for trigger guard.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

in the other picture you have a left hand lock plate which is most likely going to be from a double barrel shotgun, and a fancy butt plate.