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I'd like to see the guns you've built. I'd love to have an all metal Scotch pistol.
Saw the ones made in India 😖.
Thought about a parts set from Rifle Shoppe but the castings are rough and they are soooooo slooooow with delivery. They do a poor job hardening frizzens.
I forgot to add this. (Another senior moment ?) The British experimented with sheet COPPER as a flint pad for their Brown Besses. Sounds goofy to me! But as the song goes..."Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun....."
Keep us "MC POSTED" Iwant to see it when finished. Part of my ancestry is Scottish (Campbell, Patterson, McSporran, Blair, Smith, etc) and always interested in things Scottish.
I've never seen an original flinter that still had a flint clamped in the lock that was wrapped in sheet lead. Its always been leather. Now flints and such get replaced umpteen times during long years of use but even the military flinters I've examined had LEATHER
pads. The military often used...
If you have a Tennessee rifle and you are happy with it, who was the builder ? I'm looking for a smith to fix me up. The gun I want is based on an original. I'm getting pictures done. I picked out the lock and hardware that are closest to the original. Its a plain gun. Now my budget is not over...
Thank you for your support. I helped Tim and Terry Todish with their book ALAMO SOURCEBOOK 1836 and I learned a LOT about the process. It was fun and challenging to put it all together.
The one I had cracked near the wood screw in the stock. Wood pin and epoxy and glass bedding worked but sold the gun anyway. The one I had used a swivel in the mainspring linked to tumbler. Brass barrel.