Anyone have a TVM "Matt's Pistol"

[JN01]

I was browsing TVM's site and saw their .50 cal smoothbore pistol. It looks sweet, but I was wondering how it is balanced, how it points, etc.

Anyone have one?

 

[wolffeone]

picked mine up last month. browned barrel and lock, and a beautiful piece of curly maple. handles and points just fine. the workmanship is top notch. wont be able to shoot it for a few months though.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

caliber and type of build? :hmm:

 

[wolffeone]

It's a flint, 50 cal smoothbore, octagon to round. there's a pic of it on their website under 'tennessee pistol'. great people to work with.

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

I have the mountain pistol in .62 smoothbore with a 12" barrel and it balances nicely with a slight forward bias. This new pistol looks to me like it would lie real sweet in the hand and in addition, these are fine folks to do business with.

 

[JN01]

wolffeone-

Is it muzzle heavy at all? How long did you have to wait for delivery?

 

[wolffeone]

not muzzle heavy at all. the barrel is oct to round so most of the weight is almost centered over the lock. also the grip is large, lot of wood at bottom, this also counters the weight of the barrel. as for delivery time, matt said about 6 months, i had it in 5 1/2. it was worth the wait.

 

[JN01]

Sounds perfect. Thanks for the info.

 

[colmoultrie]

I handled several at Dixon's two summers ago, and I was impressed enough to order a kit. Now I haven't put that together yet but that's another story...

 

[oldarmy]

Do they have a brass butt cap??

 

[wolffeone]

no buttcap at all

 

[jetcanoe]

Howdy!

Newbie question...just starting to study pistols and I'd love to have one of these. Would Matt's pistol (listed as an "earlier style") be "PC" for 1800's only, or is it more in a style for any given time period? Curious about any documented pistol, style or era it imitates.

Thanks,
Jet

 

[JN01]

It believe it is supposed to represent a mid to third quarter eighteenth century type pistol- particularly with the octagon to round barrel and butt shape. Early pistols usually had no sights or just a front sight. The "Kentucky" styles didn't really become prevalent until the 1790s or so. A lot of the early pistols seem to have somewhat fancy furniture and most have butt caps, although there are a few examples of plainer guns without butt caps.

 

[fyrfyter43]

Wolffeone (or anybody else), by any chance do you have a couple pictures of your "Matt's pistol"?

I'm thinking about my first build, and since I'm really yearning for a flintlock pistol, I think this may be the one for me. I was looking at it on TVM's website the other night, but I have a feeling the picture doesn't do it justice.

 

[wolffeone]

the picture doesn't do it justice at all. hopefully in the next couple of weeks i'll be able to post some photo's of it.