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Rudyard
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RI'm glad you enjoyed them, Rudyard! For years I have been searching for contemporary photos of these in use but never managed to find...
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ROf course, there would have to be at least 4 versions of the stock for the kit, 4 or 5 versions of the lock, two barrel lengths, an...
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RRudyard replied to the thread New from California.Welcome from NZ A photo of your pistol should help identify it there are some very learned members on this Forum . Rudyard
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RYes, the M1874 Peabody-Martini, M1870 Berdan №2, & Shishane were all obsolete but common guns in the regions of the Ottoman...
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RRudyard replied to the thread Ottoman Guns.What Brilliant photoes quite made my day . The inlays in one earlier pic shows that there are some very able & patient owners still who...
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RThanks Cyten for posting these pics. Notice the fourth photo down from the top shows an 1870's Martini-Henry - and two others still...
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RThese are so rare to find on the market and even so in contemporary photos, so I thought I'd share some I found recently
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RHi, Get a copy of Goldstein and Mowbray's book, "The Brown Bess" which will make it pretty clear what you have, Irish or not. dave
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RRudyard replied to the thread I have a Brown Bess....Being a member of the forum the poster refers too I don't recall he got any' its a Yank stuff ' .The 92nd Regiment of foot where the...
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Hi David, I was about to write the same thing. Were those bayonet lugs all over the place on India pattern and new land muskets made in... -
RRudyard replied to the thread India-made flintlocks.Kit Ravenshear has been dead over twenty years . But yes he Did do that stuff I ended up with parts he replaced by his new bigger...
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RRudyard replied to the thread Italian museum photo.They do look like Japoneese snap match locks seems odd but not impossible they are in Venice though similar guns where made in...
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RThose are Japanese matchlocks known as teppō or tanegashima. The Japanese favored a snapping matchlock design based off a Malaccan...
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