I know that trade guns had a turtle type- solder on front sight. Today on a single plain barrel most beads have a thread but the taps seem too precise for earlier times. Were beads used and how were they installed on fowlers, etc.?
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I don’t recall ever seeing a bead on a gun made befor cr 1900 except for hand guns. In those cases the bead seems to be tapped in.
I did have a smoothie that had a drilled hole and had a bead riveted in :td:
I did have a smoothie that had a drilled hole and had a bead riveted in :td:
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British sporting fowlers had front beads throughout the 19th century. I believe they were pressed in. Haven't messed with the beads on mine.
accidently dbl loaded my 12 ga once and it blew the bead out
Even a good few 18th Century guns had beads, but I would imagine they were riveted in. Does not take much to hold a bead in. Ones I have seen with a missing bead had no threads at that time, as far as I could see.
At that time though, soldered on were more common.
At that time though, soldered on were more common.
