Hamilton and Burr the amazingly intricate reality.

[Coinneach]

I have to share this one, "The History Guy" is really worth subscribing to.

The Hamilton-Burr story is really interesting considering the lead up to the actual Duel.
Try to overlook the Percussion pistols featured, and yeah its inaccurate in that regard.

 

[Artificer]

Interesting. What the History Guy refers to as "cheating," is in fact a single set trigger. Since both pistols have both front and rear sights, I would bet both originally had this feature, though one may no longer be working OR was modified in the years after it was made.

Matter of fact, I would bet those pistols were originally made as target pistols rather than dueling pistols, and then used for dueling. Rich gentlemen in the period often had one or a pair of target pistols with which they practiced, but dueling pistols were often seen as more "gentlemanly" when smooth bored, MAYBE a front sight, no rear sight, and of course no set trigger/s.

Gus

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

Very interesting ! I think the American Historical Society produced replica pairs of the Hamilton and Burr dueling pistols. The was back in the possible mid to late 1980’s. I handled a pair at a gun show many years ago.

 

[Coinneach]

Very interesting ! I think the American Historical Society produced replica pairs of the Hamilton and Burr dueling pistols. The was back in the possible mid to late 1980’s. I handled a pair at a gun show many years ago.

I read that they were a Wogdon brace of duelling pistols, and Uberti produced a limited run of them in a cased pair.

 

[SOLANCO]

I wish our politicians still fought duels. Often. Televised. And with submachine guns. Hold my beer while I get some popcorn.

 

[bud in pa]

I remember reading some years back that when the pistols were examined it was found out that they indeed had single set triggers.

 

[bud in pa]

In my youth I went to Weehawken high school. The dueling grounds looked like a swamp.