Lefaucheux
32 Cal.
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I greet you all from the Netherlands, Europe.
This forum was suggested to me by someone and I think it is a good one for me. Since 1989 I am a sport shooter. I am active in more than one disciplines.
Also I have great interest in pistols and revolvers with the accent on S&W revolvers. I have three, a 617, 686 and 696.
The last few years my interest in antique guns has grown. These are free to own here. Replica's not, they are licenced. I started collecting pinfire revolvers and restoring them but now I move to percussion and flintlock pistols.
I like to restore them. Something that keeps the hobby acceptable in costs and a gun I have punt so much effort in I have a much better 'relationship' with then a bought and ready one.
Currently I have one percussion pistol and two flintlock pistols. I have yet to shoot with one of them but have muzzle loading experience with a Uberti revolver. However that was more than 10 years ago when we (shooting club) could shoot outside.
The one pistol I have restored is this one. Because I do not unidentified it I started to look around to good forums and through 2 other forums I am now here.
I hope to indentifie the percussion pistol. (I took pictures of the unreadable name before restoring). Furhet I hope to find info about making flints to the right mesurements and find tips on restoring. And maybe I can give tips as well.
Jeroen
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This forum was suggested to me by someone and I think it is a good one for me. Since 1989 I am a sport shooter. I am active in more than one disciplines.
Also I have great interest in pistols and revolvers with the accent on S&W revolvers. I have three, a 617, 686 and 696.
The last few years my interest in antique guns has grown. These are free to own here. Replica's not, they are licenced. I started collecting pinfire revolvers and restoring them but now I move to percussion and flintlock pistols.
I like to restore them. Something that keeps the hobby acceptable in costs and a gun I have punt so much effort in I have a much better 'relationship' with then a bought and ready one.
Currently I have one percussion pistol and two flintlock pistols. I have yet to shoot with one of them but have muzzle loading experience with a Uberti revolver. However that was more than 10 years ago when we (shooting club) could shoot outside.
The one pistol I have restored is this one. Because I do not unidentified it I started to look around to good forums and through 2 other forums I am now here.
I hope to indentifie the percussion pistol. (I took pictures of the unreadable name before restoring). Furhet I hope to find info about making flints to the right mesurements and find tips on restoring. And maybe I can give tips as well.
Jeroen
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After