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    Surprise

    Found this discussion by chance . Swivel pistols , however cleaver designed , were just a fancy toy , with time they always became weak at the swiviel pivot . By 1700 they were already just a curiosity or a fancy gift . The one found at Michilimakinac is from 1640- 1650 . In...
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    Blunderbuss ID?

    Pictures of a weird spanish wall hanger here , http://poudrenoire.forumactif.com/Armes-longues-c1/Fusils-a-silex-f1/identification-d-un-vieux-fusil-t9621.htm Does the flash hole connect the barrel ?
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    Blunderbuss ID?

    My guess: Spanish made from a mix of original parts ( english butt plate , spanish barrel ... ) assembled after 1940 on a 1940 made stock. How are the bore and flash hole ? Is it a crown over the " V " stamp ?
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    Who builds the best Tulle fusil de chasse

    "..... I was not aware that the Tulle came without a buttplate, for instance....." Oups ! did I miss something ? The 1666 " mousquet " ( matchlock ) did not have a buttplate http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/fr/image_41.asp?page_id=31 , the loading is done holding the gun up in the air in...
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    French Locks?

    Actually , Rifle Shoppe choose to copy a St Étienne lock , not a Tulle , they do look rather similar anyway.
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    Who builds the best Tulle fusil de chasse

    "Fusil de chasse " translates as hunting gun . It means a smoothbore used for hunting , from flint to modern day cartridge gun . The real name of the gun we are talking about was " fusil de chasse et de service pour la colonie " : hunting and service gun for the colony . They were made...
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    French Fusils

    " one of those " you mean a 1690 ?
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    Matchlock pistols?

    Yes , You are right ! ( I was thinking of the one made in Argentina ) So we now know the Middlesex Village repro is based on an genuine gun . I am convinced .
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    Matchlock pistols?

    overall length: 4.63 in , No doubt , it is a toy .
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    Matchlock pistols?

    Lovely , I will make one someday ! Any indication of its size ? Still ,it does not look much like the one at the beginning of this discussion .
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    Arkebuse Project: Part V

    Oh ! Should I understand that as an explanation why the lever style lasted longer than the trigger ? This is the gun that I would like to reproduce : http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/fr/image_41.asp?page_id=31 Would this lock...
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    Arkebuse Project: Part V

    "....They always make the same mistake and redesign the trigger so it's flinty. That won't work unless the pivot in the middle of the plate is a precision part, which they weren't....." What do you mean by " flinty " ?
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    Matchlock pistols?

    I do not have to stand up to the PC police and defend what I own and do with my reproductions, I allow no one to spoil my fun. I have no intention of spoiling your fun as long as you do not try to spoil my history .
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    Matchlock pistols?

    So , there are two positions : A- wait untill evidence is shown before spending hard earned money . B - buy something that could have existed and is easier to make and/or cheaper to buy than the hard fact documented thing . In this case , if one does not yet have the horse , the "...
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    Matchlock pistols?

    ",,,I hardly think any small arms manufacturer plans to make a fortune by "inventing" a matchlock pistol..." If you go at a reenactment event , such " improvements" of the past is very common . Just for the F&I war period , slat chairs lantern holders , straw tricorns , wall tents ...
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    Matchlock pistols?

    Who ? Wich regiment When ? 1601 ? 1699 ? Where ? Germany ? There where no country of that name in the 17 th cent. It was an empire of many province , Prussia ? Bavaria ? former republic of Venice ? Where is the original it is supposed to be a repro of ? etc.etc.
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    Match lock powder charges

    With a match lock , the powder charges were generally kept in small wood botles http://www.engerisser.de/Bewaffnung/weapons/Bandolier.html often called " apostles " , actually that name was given by 19 th cent. collectors . So , I would like to know from wich wood those botles were made ?
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    Canadian gun builder?

    Not only Peter Alexander is well alive , but he builds in the the Greenville County style , as the title of his book suggests. It would help a lot if a period was mentionned . Something called " Canadian Gunsmithing " would have to be after 1760 or it would be French , after that it...
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    Fusil de chasse

    if you compare it side by side with an original, you'll bust out laughing. They are cartoon carichtures of the real thing. You mean , like this ? On top the exhibit in a museum ( that I will not name ) under , over the plexiglass plate , a India made gun Military model ,
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    Thoughts on "Northwest Passage"

    About the baloney , or Bologna sausage , the Italian name is " mortadella " , the word is in use since the XV th centh. but the recipe must have been different since the name comes from the latin " murtus " wich is a berry . The use of the word bologna in english is from 1815...
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