[Craig T]

Originally Posted by daepp

Antique air spoon my buddy owns. He claims it goes back nearly to the time of Lewis and Clark

I recently visited the Cody Firearms Museum, in Cody Wyoming. They have the actual air spoon rifle that Lewis and Clark carried on the trip down the Columbia River. It looks exactly like your buddy's. Lewis and Clark used it mostly as a demonstration of technology for the Native American tribes they encountered along the way, but said it could bring down a deer if within it's range of accuracy.