old ugly
40 Cal.
does anyone own one yet?
how nice is it?
Im always liking a double flinter.
how nice is it?
Im always liking a double flinter.
I agree 100%.The basket weave checkering is super ugly and inappropriate. Not sure why they thought it was a good idea. The cocks look weird to me. The barrels are too short. It appears that the Italians did not bother to examine an original. I have never understood that type of lack of research on the part of mass market gun makers. It would have cost the same to do it right as to do it wrong. So, they made an expensive gun that looks cheap. I predict it will be a flop, and rightfully so.
There was a write up on in in a recent magazine, probably muzzle blasts. I can not find it right now.
Unless I'm missing something, that's not a write up of the gun, its just more speculation based on pictures and videos, some by the same people on here. The one link posted to an actual write up was to an article I had already found (https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/shotguns/pedersoli-classic-side-side-shotgun/) and highly discounted due to its inaccuracies on some pretty basic stuff. The guy at the shotshow who actually handled the piece really didn't say anything about it.Find a write up on the gun here.
The only write up I have seen by people who have actually seen and held and shot one of these was in Muzzle Blasts magazine a couple of months ago. They were at Friendship and had it there just about all week and multiple people got a chance to actually hold, look at and fire it. From the write up they all liked how it felt, handled, and shot. A friend of mine was at Friendship and got a chance to hold and look at it, although he did not shoot it, and he said the workmanship on it was good. He did not personally like the basket weave, but credited it as based on an original, and he was somewhat suspect of the barrel (only because he wasn't sure where it was made), but overall he said it looked like a good gun.Unless I'm missing something, that's not a write up of the gun, its just more speculation based on pictures and videos, some by the same people on here. The one link posted to an actual write up was to an article I had already found (https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/shotguns/pedersoli-classic-side-side-shotgun/) and highly discounted due to its inaccuracies on some pretty basic stuff. The guy at the shotshow who actually handled the piece really didn't say anything about it.
I saw at least 1/2 dozen for sale at the last antique gunshow I was at in February. You can't just sit at home and hope they fall into your lap.Ugly guns, but I agree that original flintlock doubles are not available in the US.