highwall_v2P
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Mark Twain had a few things to say about the pepperbox in Roughing It, part 1:Now I need some pepperbox guru to tell me what that is.
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I can see it now. A group of men standing around a body laying on the ground with one of them saying, "Well, he'd be fine if he didn't fall on that ramrod and run it thru his middle when he fell off his horse."Hi Highwall
Spence is correct in his description.... The one unique feature is that they were intentionally made without a provision for a ramrod. The soldier would carry a seperate ramrod suspended around the neck with a throng. This made it faster to reload the pistol and prevented loss of the ramrod while loading from horseback.
Rick
I too also have one of them. they were indeed a BELGIUN HORSE PISTOL. they were carried in a pair of holsters on the front of the saddle. and the reason that there is no place for a ram rod under the barell, is because the CALVERYMAN, carried one on his side in a leather devise. I still shoot mine at the range.I have that pistol. It is Belgian, made for either Belgian or Russian military, called Belgian Dragoon pistol ca.1830-40.
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Spence
you will also notice that it has been converter to percussion. still a really beautiful pistol!LOL !!!! Good one Zonie. The so called "captured" ramrod was another method during the same period to assist in loading and preclude the loss of the ramrod.
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