Might be one of the old Stevens falling /rolling block single shots - a "Favorite" or related model.
Nemo me impune lacessit ! Wisdom is knowing what to do; Skill is knowing how to do it ; Character is what lets you actually do the job.
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Maybe a chopped-off Crackshot with busted off tangs, though the "Miserable Loader" also had the same shaped frame.
Knew an old coon hunter who told me that when he was a kid, he and his brothers used to make pocket pistols out of old Crackshot rifles to use when they had to climb up a tree after a coon, so they could get a close head shot and not take a chance of damaging the hide and lessening it's value.
Of course, that was back in those common sense days that are long-gone.
Keep your eye out for human bones.
No lever, so I guess a Remington No.4
Ancient aliens. Proof of an technologically advanced ancient society.
Next time a nearby municipality has one of those gun "buy back" schemes.....
Do something! You're dead a long time, and it's later than you think.
Gonna say....possible murder weapon?
I agree Remington rolling block small frame, missing parts...