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    kibler fowler

    KIbler's cnc machining allows precise inletting with the lock fitting perfectly. Making the lock in-house guarantees the compatibility of the lock and stock inlet.
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    Help identifying 10 bore

    Has the flint leather been cut away to allow the flint to be mounted further back?
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    A brace of brand-new wheellock pistols - and a couple of shots......

    I'm so old that I remember when the milk was delivered by a horse drawn wagon. Those are an impressive pair of pistols!
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    Belgium made percussion pistols

    Bought a basket case Centennial 1860. Cylinder pin was ruined. No spares available, made one starting with a die maker's bolt. That is when I discovered that the threads in the receiver were Imperial. Don't know about the rest of the screws. Looks good, excellent shooter.
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    Lock ID and parts help please

    Bridle and tumbler without an axle are characteristic of the old Dixie lock. Frizzen spring sure looks like one as well.
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    Ruggles Patent Underhammer Pistol

    Back to the stock for a moment... I got out my copy of Logan, and scanned through it. Your stock is certainly similar to the ones illustrated, and quite appropriate for your pistol.
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    Ruggles Patent Underhammer Pistol

    Your project is coming along really nicely! Speaking of Ruggles, I have a Ruggles underhammer drilling. 2xshotgun with rifle underneath. Barrel selection is made by a swinging hammer nose. Not the Ruggles who started the underhammer business, perhaps a family member.
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    Tanegashima stock construction.

    I am surprised that no one has ever offered a set of detailed drawings for one of these guns. There is the interest in making reproductions.
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    Brown Bess ID help

    That is a rather nice looking India Pattern musket. The double throated cock is the second pattern, post 1806; the earlier version had a goose necked cock. If you study the right side of the butt, you may find the storekeepers stamp, which will indicate the year the musket was accepted into...
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    Unknown Bess? the at

    Keep in mind that I saw this stock some 45-odd years ago. The right and left lock area panels were the sides of the plank from which the stock had been machined. There was an unfinished area on the bottom of the forend just in front of the trigger guard, no doubt where the blank had been...
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    Unknown Bess? the at

    Back in the early '70s, I was at Numrich Arms, picking up a load of barrel blanks. While there, Ira Trast showed me a machine carved, unfinished stock for a Bess, made by a company "Wysowski Brothers", in NY State. Does that ring a bell with anyone? The carving machine was tape controlled...
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    Dixie Gun Works 28 gauge

    Years ago I bought a somewhat similar gun. Full stocked, in that there is a strip of sheet brass wrapped joint in the forend. Wire ramrod. Shot it quite a bit hunting ptarmigans. Actually not a bad shooting little gun. It is my understanding that these guns were made for sale in South...
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    Flintlock rifles in Alaska

    I recall a 737 coming through Frobisher Bay with a load of dynamite for the mine at Nanisivik, on northern Baffin Island. There was a polar bear hunter who wanted to use a muzzleloading rifle. He got caught with his powder horn and possibles bag when checking in for his flight north, lost his...
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    Flintlock rifles in Alaska

    Flying with black powder in checked luggage... When I lived on Baffin Island in the Canadian Eastern Arctic, I knew a chap who shot a bit of black powder. He carried it in his luggage. I never happened to be on the same flight. Don't know what I would have done if he was checking in on the...
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    Flintlock rifles in Alaska

    There is an excellent museum at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Quite a number of guns on display. Of course Fairbanks isn't all that close to Anchorage. There is also a gun collection on display in Ketchikan. Once again, not close to Anchorage...
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