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Holsters for 1851 Colt?
For a quality, true to the era holster, I've found El Paso Saddlery to be a superior source. -
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Non-Firing replica 1766 Charleville Infantry Musket
What we have here....- Dave Fox
- Post #73
- Forum: Flintlock Rifles
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Non-Firing replica 1766 Charleville Infantry Musket
I'll add a gratuitous observation. Several posts discuss taking one of these India-made muskets to a gunsmith to have the vent drilled. Were I such a gunsmith I wouldn't consider the task: I'd be taking a non-firearm and making it into a firearm. Ergo, any liability for injury would certainly...- Dave Fox
- Post #50
- Forum: Flintlock Rifles
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Revolver photos
There's a reasonably priced beauty currently listed by Shiloh Relics....Look under "Pistols-percussion". -
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Antique Firearms
- Dave Fox
- Post #98
- Forum: Original Antique Firearms
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Could a round ball about .001 inch less than bore diameter be used?
As an aside, North-South Skirmishers fielding smoothbores routinely dimple their musket balls claiming enhanced accuracy and perhaps other advantages.- Dave Fox
- Post #22
- Forum: Percussion Rifles
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Iron vs Brass Furniture on Period Correct Rifles
A bit of 19th Century thinking on one aspect of the subject of iron vs. brass on firearms. From the beginning of U.S. musket production in the 1790s, iron furniture was utilized. Use of brass was confined to some models of rifles. In the 1850s Master Armorer James Burton sojourned in England to...- Dave Fox
- Post #10
- Forum: General Muzzleloading
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Colt 1860 Vs Remington New Model
two questions here. Which revolver suits the owner best and which is a better revolver. As to the latter, how many open top revolvers are manufactured today? -
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Revolver photos
Beaumont-Adams P.1856 .44 five-shot. extremely accurate, though the lack of a recoil shield is a tad disconcerting. -
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Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights
It is an inaccurate(!) stereotype to picture the Redcoat, even in the hay day of the Brown Bess, to be indifferent to individual marksmanship. In his chapter on the subject in "Small Arms of the British Forces in America 1664 to 1815", De Witt Bailey opens with "One of the most misunderstood...- Dave Fox
- Post #24
- Forum: Percussion Rifles
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Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights
- Dave Fox
- Post #22
- Forum: Percussion Rifles
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Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights
The peep sight, located near the shooter's eye, is a far superior combat sight. Pretty-much every expert in the discipline concurs. Cost savings, if any, are a secondary consideration.- Dave Fox
- Post #21
- Forum: Percussion Rifles
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Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights
Not necessarily arguing against your statement that British soldiers were effective in the Crimean War because they were well trained and disciplined, friend Statheman, but as the new P.1853 rifled-muskets were often substituted for older, obsolescent weapons in the field during that horribly...- Dave Fox
- Post #18
- Forum: Percussion Rifles
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Springfields 1855 vs 1861 sights
The change from the ladder to the leaf rear sight occurred in 1858, during production of the M.1855 rifle and rifle-musket. The leaf rear sight adopted in 1858 was slightly altered in 1861 and, again, later. Willyard in his fine book "U.S. Model of 1855 Series of Small Arms" infers on page 66...- Dave Fox
- Post #17
- Forum: Percussion Rifles
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.62 caliber military muskets (Rev war)
Here's a 1719-dated Tower Colonel's Musket from my accumulation, with thumb escutcheon bearing an earl's coronet and "O" and the buttstock a brand of a coronet over a "1" for the Earl of Orkney's 1st Regiment of Foot. With a 40", approximately .68 caliber barrel, it about qualifies as a carbine...- Dave Fox
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- Forum: Smoothbore
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Shot the Philly Derringer today to check penetration.
I believe a doctor repeatedly inserted his finger in the entrance wound in Lincoln's skull to relieve pressure caused by clotting. In my little museum in my town's old courthouse I have a modest display relating to the Lincoln assassination. It includes newspapers with an announcement of the... -
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Shot the Philly Derringer today to check penetration.
Respectfully have problems picturing a "nipple/cap protector" which one could flick off with the same hand one is drawing and cocking a weapon that's already grossly inferior to what's currently on the market for pocket carry. At derringer velocities, expansion would not be a factor.