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    Holsters for 1851 Colt?

    For a quality, true to the era holster, I've found El Paso Saddlery to be a superior source.
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    An old Walmart rifle for eye candy.

    That's just....
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    Non-Firing replica 1766 Charleville Infantry Musket

    What we have here....
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    Non-Firing replica 1766 Charleville Infantry Musket

    I'll add a gratuitous observation. Several posts discuss taking one of these India-made muskets to a gunsmith to have the vent drilled. Were I such a gunsmith I wouldn't consider the task: I'd be taking a non-firearm and making it into a firearm. Ergo, any liability for injury would certainly...
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    Revolver photos

    There's a reasonably priced beauty currently listed by Shiloh Relics....Look under "Pistols-percussion".
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    What are your excuses please.

    Tell her? Why?
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    Antique Firearms

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    Could a round ball about .001 inch less than bore diameter be used?

    As an aside, North-South Skirmishers fielding smoothbores routinely dimple their musket balls claiming enhanced accuracy and perhaps other advantages.
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    Iron vs Brass Furniture on Period Correct Rifles

    A bit of 19th Century thinking on one aspect of the subject of iron vs. brass on firearms. From the beginning of U.S. musket production in the 1790s, iron furniture was utilized. Use of brass was confined to some models of rifles. In the 1850s Master Armorer James Burton sojourned in England to...
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    Colt 1860 Vs Remington New Model

    two questions here. Which revolver suits the owner best and which is a better revolver. As to the latter, how many open top revolvers are manufactured today?
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    Revolver photos

    Beaumont-Adams P.1856 .44 five-shot. extremely accurate, though the lack of a recoil shield is a tad disconcerting.
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    Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights

    It is an inaccurate(!) stereotype to picture the Redcoat, even in the hay day of the Brown Bess, to be indifferent to individual marksmanship. In his chapter on the subject in "Small Arms of the British Forces in America 1664 to 1815", De Witt Bailey opens with "One of the most misunderstood...
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    Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights

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    Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights

    The peep sight, located near the shooter's eye, is a far superior combat sight. Pretty-much every expert in the discipline concurs. Cost savings, if any, are a secondary consideration.
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    Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights

    Not necessarily arguing against your statement that British soldiers were effective in the Crimean War because they were well trained and disciplined, friend Statheman, but as the new P.1853 rifled-muskets were often substituted for older, obsolescent weapons in the field during that horribly...
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