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    Anyone recognize this manufacturers mark?

    They aren't circa 1800. A lot of those late 19th and even early 20th century Belgian guns get listed by all sorts of places as 18th century or early 19th century.
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    percussion rifle I found laying around my dad's house

    It is an inexpensive percussion shotgun with a Birmingham, England, proofed barrel.
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    My new old rifle

    Most of the American combination guns I have seen have come from New York, Wisconsin, and Michigan, but without any maker's marks, you'll have a hard time identifying the maker.
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    ID: French, English? Dueling or Target? Maker?

    Very much French in style.
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    Flintlock identification required.

    Looks like a cut down East India Company 1771 Windus Pattern Musket named after Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Windus. That pattern was also adopted by the British as the "India Pattern" and used c. 1797–1854.
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    Is this a Beaumont-Adams or a Deane and Adams Revolver? And a few other questions

    The standard Adams is double action only and usually doesn't have a spur on the hammer. The Beaumont-Adams is single/double action and has a spur on the hammer. A Beaumont-Adams will generally have an Adams patent use number on the right side of the frame and a Beaumont patent use number on the...
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    NOV 3rd Mountain Men - Ultimate Marksman

    You know, I’m not sure about how much we are permitted to talk about the show and it’s processes, especially before it comes out, but there was of course a selection process for who was featured on the show. Some of you probably recognize two of the other muzzleloading guys in the preview.
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    NOV 3rd Mountain Men - Ultimate Marksman

    Lots of great people were involved, including respected muzzleloading craftsmen. It’s a competition show not a mountain men era reenactment.
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    NOV 3rd Mountain Men - Ultimate Marksman

    Nope, its a variety of people. It should be a really cool show. I was one of the contestants. I'm the one in the blue short sleeve shirt walking out at the front of the group in the preview:
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    I am totally…..

    Don't give up! FYI, Grafs & Sons has musket caps in-stock if you are willing to buy 1,000: https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/category/categoryId/3511
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    Civil War Revolver ID

    It is most likely a Model 1849 Pocket, the most popular 19th century percussion revolvers. Colt sold over 325,000 of them. They were carried by thousands of soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. Despite often being called the "Model 1862 Navy" and Colt's website still listing them within the...
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    flintlock w/ axe ?

    Real ones are going to have the axe on the same end as the muzzle. For example, take a look at the Swedish boarding axe pistols: https://collections.royalarmouries.org/object/rac-object-30982.html https://collections.royalarmouries.org/media/emumedia/356/900/large_DI_2011_0600.jpg/img] There...
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    Ketland Flintlock Pistols...

    No need to play semantics. It is a screw or bolt by definition and not truly a nail though "side nail" is one of the common names for them as is lock screw or lock bolt. Ed, You can get ramrods from pretty much any muzzleloading supplier. Track of the Wolf has various options. You'll cut it to...
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    Ketland Flintlock Pistols...

    Yep, with the T. Ketland & Co. marking this was manufactured c. 1813-1821. A spliced repair could be done to fix the stock, and you can get a lock screw to replace the missing one. If you can confirm the threads, you might be able to get one that fits. Otherwise, you'd need to retap the threads...
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    Ketland Flintlock Pistols...

    Looks like a fairly standard "trade pistol." The marking between the Birmingham proofs is fairly common marking on Birmingham guns: http://www.researchpress.co.uk/rppublishing/rplibrary/rpl002-why-the-tombstone.pdf
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    Looking for BP shooters in Northern IL or Southern WI

    Where at in Northern Illinois? I'm not aware of any proper clubs in the area other then the Rock Run Long Rifles over in Rockford and haven't done anything with them personally.
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    Inherited a flintlock pistol

    Those are not standard London Gunmakers Company proofs and are likely period forgeries. The standard London proofs should include a "crown/GP" proof mark of slightly different style and then a "crown/V" view mark. The Birmingham makers didn't have their own formal proofhouse until 1813 and...
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    Unusual cased French pistols.

    Not to mention the relatives of the French that fought in the American Revolution. The United States would almost certainly not have won the Revolutionary War without the aid we received from French. Them coming to our aid with arms, money, expertise, and later thousands of fighting men and a...
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    Anyone looking for a ’serpentine’ matchlock?

    That's a serpentine lock not a snap matchlock. A snap lock would cock and have a trigger that released a sear allowing the serpentine to fall onto the pan. This is the early, most basic style where the serpentine and trigger just pivot on a screw/post in the stock.
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    DUAL-caliber early matchlock!

    That is a wheellock rather than a matchlock. I've never seen anything like that sub-caliber insert for a muzzleloader, and I have my hands on hundreds if not thousands of muzzleloaders every year.
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