It was a GREAT weekend, as I attended the annual Colonial Trade Show in Portsmouth, NH where many fine builders and sutlers were on hand. The show was larger this year ... and if they didn’t have it ... you didn’t need it.
With that said, my ’BP bucket list’ is almost complete. I commissioned Brian Anderson of VT to build me a 58-cal rifle version of the John Alden "Mayflower" gun (actually built by Beretta in the 1500s) using wheel lock ignition from a The Rifle Shoppe parts lock kit (which I actually got in less than a week from them ... and that’s another success right there!).
When done, my black powdah collection - all shootable - some original, rest replica builds, will span all BP ignition types (less a miqulet) going from the:
- 1360 Tannenberg Castle hand gonne
- to arquebus to matchlocks of tiller & trigger function
- to wheellock to snaphaunce
- to flintlocks, spanning from late 1600s of 75-cal and 60” barrels to your typical Golden Age flint longrifle, and then
- up to and including an original in the lineage of the LAST of ths flintlock evolution, the Hall breech loading flintlock rifle of patent date 1811.
I do have one ‘cap gun’ that I enjoy shooting, a replica US Civil War 58 rifled musket, but I like to focus on the earlier BP arms.
It was a good weekend!
With that said, my ’BP bucket list’ is almost complete. I commissioned Brian Anderson of VT to build me a 58-cal rifle version of the John Alden "Mayflower" gun (actually built by Beretta in the 1500s) using wheel lock ignition from a The Rifle Shoppe parts lock kit (which I actually got in less than a week from them ... and that’s another success right there!).
When done, my black powdah collection - all shootable - some original, rest replica builds, will span all BP ignition types (less a miqulet) going from the:
- 1360 Tannenberg Castle hand gonne
- to arquebus to matchlocks of tiller & trigger function
- to wheellock to snaphaunce
- to flintlocks, spanning from late 1600s of 75-cal and 60” barrels to your typical Golden Age flint longrifle, and then
- up to and including an original in the lineage of the LAST of ths flintlock evolution, the Hall breech loading flintlock rifle of patent date 1811.
I do have one ‘cap gun’ that I enjoy shooting, a replica US Civil War 58 rifled musket, but I like to focus on the earlier BP arms.
It was a good weekend!
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