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  1. Ike Godsey

    TULLE - need advice please

    Howdy, I am looking for advice. I would like to get myself a TULLE de Chase from a US maker. Could anyone suggest any good US maker that is able (and willing) to ship a custom made gun over seas to Germany?
  2. Ike Godsey

    unknowen smoothbore need help please

    Howdy!! My brother stopped by yesterday afternoon, and with the words „Merry Christmas!“ handling me a huge carbonbox. I opened the box and a gun came up. LOOOONNGG one too. Pretty beat up stock in the muzzle section – Perkussion lock. As we had tea, we talked abut this gun and he send me...
  3. Ike Godsey

    Land Pattern 1740 Musket from Loyalist Arms, Halifax, CAN.

    Howdy!! After a couple of years fighting my cancer and some other things, I have enough time to start up and resattle my reenactment gear for FIW. I do remember some years ago there have been many of you guys qualified as TOP NOTCH specialist on FIW and AWI topics. As I said back then, I...
  4. Ike Godsey

    Colt 10 gauge revolving shotgun?

    Howdy! Again there is a interesting gun up for auction here in Germany. Seller worte its a 10GA Revolving Shotgun(5 Shots) by COLT. Here are some pics: The stock looks just not right to me. Any thoughts? Ike
  5. Ike Godsey

    Swedish Dog Lock Musket

    Howdy! Here in the "German version" of Gun Broker is a original Dog Lock Musket up for auction. These are the sepcs: Length: 147cm Caliber; 21,00mm Barrel: smoothbore Stockwood: Birch The starting bid is 195,00€ which is close to 220US$. The seller says, the muskets origin is...
  6. Ike Godsey

    Double Lock Brown Bess?

    Hi Gang, on the net I ran across this double lock musket: The guy on the photo wrote this about the musket: I found this video, showing the same type of musket: https://vimeo.com/223338343 I think, it is pretty cool. Ike
  7. Ike Godsey

    M1841 Mississippi Rifle .54 caliber

    Hello to the experts here, I am fairly new to this forum after my break in 2015. I am from Germany and so I ask for patience, cause my english is not very good, but I do hope you could understand what I am trying to say”¦ Somewhere in a book I red the story about Kid Carson. There was also...
  8. Ike Godsey

    Upgraded Musket?

    Howdy!! I just ran across a flinter that was new to me, so I thought I share it with you. Well, at the beginning, it startet its life as a French 1717 musket. I am sure you all know the specs: 46“ barrel, which was pinned to the stock, .69 Cal., and its most unusaual feature, the ”žvertical...
  9. Ike Godsey

    Brown Bess on the Market...

    Howdy Folks!! I know I have not been "on Board" for a long time, so first of all, YES I am still alive. Thanks to Grumpa for the wishes and some others for the mails. Before you ask guys - yes I am still fighting my cancer, but I am doing well. OK, lets talk about some much more important...
  10. Ike Godsey

    Unknowen Musket

    Hi Folks, over here is a musket on sale. Noone really knows what this is and a question to the seller does not enlighten me cause he just sales it, he is not the owner. The musket itself has those specs: Cal. 17mm Overall: 118,5 cm Barrel: 81cm Rain ressistence lock with brass pan. To me...
  11. Ike Godsey

    1757 Spain Infantry Musket

    In an earlier post on this forum I spoke about a copy of the Spanish 1757 Infantry Musket made by Mendi in Spain. I receently had the chance to get my hands on one, so I thought I provide some pics, hoping they are of interests. This last pic shows the official spanish BP proof...
  12. Ike Godsey

    Long Land Pattern 1742

    Hi Folks, I ran across a bunch for pics of an well used LLP. One of them is this: What makes me wonder is the frizzen. It lacks the engraving, the frizzen screw looks like to be screwed in from the locks inside. Also the frizzen spring looks different. A repair? Or just a cheaper way of...
  13. Ike Godsey

    Rocklock Smoothies

    Hi Gang, A friend of mine send me some rocklock pics, I thought I share them with you. Ike
  14. Ike Godsey

    LLP Parts Mix Up while re-stocking?

    Here is an example of an american restocked Long Land Pattern that has a mix up of older and newer parts.... ...very strange. Thought I share it with you... :hmm: http://jamesdjulia.com/item/2137-358/ Ike
  15. Ike Godsey

    Smoothbores in the Colonies

    Howdy, I am thinking of the use of ”žolder smoothbores“ in the colonies. Meaning weapons, which have been made maybe in 1720 or so, made by gunsmiths in the colonies, used as a hunting/militia weapon and then, given to the next generation(s) in the family. I have seen some very beautiful...
  16. Ike Godsey

    French Muskets Sells in the AWI

    Howdy! In the AWI there have been shipments of ”žold broken muskets“ from France to the Colonies. When the French re-armed their troops with the new model 1777, I wonder how this was done. I assume that in the French Army Muskets of various Models have been in use, some maybe as old as the...
  17. Ike Godsey

    British Brown Bess Pattern 1777 Carbine

    Found this on the net, thoughtt I share it with you: If this is a 1777 model, I wonder what the carbines the Highland Regiments looked like in the FIW period. :hmm: Ike
  18. Ike Godsey

    Stock Repairs on Kings Muskets?

    By all that is written here about the conversion of The Kings Muskets from wooden zu steel rammers and the cut off of demaged muzzles etc., I wonder if there have been any stock repairs made to such muskets to keep them in duty with the regulars? I also wonder if there any pics exist about...
  19. Ike Godsey

    Lock for Smoothbore? P1756?

    Hi Gang, here on a local gun auction, this lock came up for auction. starting at 100,00€ (close to 125 US $) Can anyone here identify this lock? Is this a british mark on it? What date would it be? Thanks for your help :hatsoff: Ike
  20. Ike Godsey

    Private Commercial Long Land Pattern

    Hi Gang, is there any knowen fact on how any of the Private Commercial Long Land Pattern Muskets have been build in or imported to North Amerika prior to the FIW?
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