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    Eusebio Arizaga 28ga

    I've got one, too. Mine is marked CAL 28 TA on top of the breech, and on the underside is marked FA DE Teodoro Arrizabalaga Eibar. The Spanish proofmarks date to 1968. Also stamped 13.7--which I assume is the metric bore size. I've fired it with light charges and thinly patched .530 balls...
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    Unknown single barrel Fowler?

    I have a similar Belgian single barrel 12 gauge. I first thought the nipple threads were 1/4-28, but actually measure .260-28 as per my non-metric micrometer and thread gauge. Track Of The Wolf catalogs a .260-28 nipple, but I do not know if its thread pitch will interchange with the...
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    Pedersoli Shotgun Film

    Speaking of safety, I noticed that right after firing he he cocks the hammers and takes off the old fired caps. I was taught to leave them ON, so when reloading there would be less of a chance of air flow and a possible spark when reloading. I also noticed after capping the nipples, that he...
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    Allen and Thurber or Mowrey Gun Works

    Here's a far-fetched long-shot possibility: Googling "Jas Mowrey" shows there was a Civil War soldier in the Iowa Infantry with that name. https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=632C1EBD-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A Assuming the rifle is an original Allen And...
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    A Funny "ML For Sale" Ad On Cr@igslist

    Found this on a SoCalif. Cr@igslist antiques posting... Wow, it's at least "70 long years old", looking at the "patina" on the lockplate. It's gotta be worth at least 900 bucks, right? ;)
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    A friend of mine has a pirated copy of The Revenant, and I watched it last night on a smallish computer screen. (Feeling a little guilty about the origin of his copy... 60 million bucks to produce, and we watched it for free...) Mostly an excellent movie--it's long--about 2.5 hours. I thought...
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    Back Action Percussion Rifle

    Great job! You got most or all of the grunge off the iron parts, but still retained some patina. How did you clean the iron?
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    Shotgun Nipple Question

    I have an older Belgian shotgun that had what I first thought was a standard 1/4-28 thread on its nipple, but checking with a micrometer and thread gauge, it actually measures .260 x 28 TPI. (Not sure what the metric designation is... )TOTW lists a .260x28TPI nipple, and hopefully that will fit...
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    English Percussion fowler

    Shine, your second-to-last photo shows some words stamped on the barrel. One looks like "J R COOPER"? What is the other word? Wonder who/what Cooper was... A couple of years ago the Backwoodsman magazine had an interesting article on shotguns made from cut-down CW muskets. The author gave...
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    Indo-Persian 19th Century, need help IDing further.

    Hi, your second set of photos should appear if you add a .JPG extension to them: --I've left a couple of spaces in the example so it won't fully display, but here is the same link without spaces:
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    A Tale of Two Towers

    Great final-finish job on both guns, Cache! Many years ago I had a .45 smoothbore CVA Tower pistol, almost identical to your brown-finished gun. An idiot friend put some insane overloads in it, despite my protests. The barrel held together fine, except the tapped holes for the screws that...
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    Would you shoot this?

    I'd shoot the first few shots ONE-HANDED, as I'm doing here with the second shot through my new/old Belgian single-barrel 12 gauge shotgun. Photo is a frame-grab from a cheap video camera. I bought it a couple of years ago for $125 from a local antique store. It was in their front window...
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    Burst Barrel

    Dan states that 12L14 and 1140M steels dangerously "work harden" after a lot of use, so perhaps the 12L14 barrels tested by Jerry Cunningham MIGHT have failed under less pressure, if they had been fired many times before. Dan: "A brittle steel is considerably weakened when subjected to shock...
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