Pedersoli Queen Ann .50 cal. Brass Barrel

[springfield art]

Just bought a Pedersoli Queen Ann flint pistol in .50 smoothbore in exc. cond. from a friend who is bailing out of the Pirating enacting business.
It has the older Brass Barrel; the current Dixie catalog lists them as polished steel/German silver. Current price is $575.(!) for the finished gun. Kit
is $435. I paid $100 even and couldn't turn it down. It has the face casting on the butt and cannon-type rings on the barrel. I figure I can use it
for Trade material or cash sale at at show. Sometimes real bargains come your way, anyone else have a story about something they couldn't turn
down? (Barrel is proofed, so it's a 'live shooter; Pedersoli recommends 30 gr. FFFg, .490 RB, .15 patch.)

 

[Nobade]

Is it rifled? I thought they were all smoothbore. Just wondering since the load recommendation.
You sure done good on the price! Mike Bellevue's youtube video on those is pretty entertaining.

 

[Jay Templin]

My “best deal” came to me back in 1994. My buddy Bear was getting ready to move cross-country. I’d loaned him $50 and he wanted to pay me back before he left, but he was broke, so he gave me a rifle he’d picked up and had never used, threw in a couple tins of caps and a bag of balls. I was a dedicated flintlock shooter at the time, so that poor Lyman Great Plains .50 languished in my closet for about a year. I wasn’t going to sully my hunting with any caplock! Then I got a call from Steve, who said “you know how you said if I ever sell my musket, you want it?” Well, I was just finishing college and between jobs, so I didn’t have any money. Asked him why he was selling, and he said “I never use it, and I found this thing called Rendezvous. It’s mountain man stuff, so I need a percussion gun.” I thought I would offer the Lyman as a down payment on his Pedersoli carbine, but when I said “I have a .50 Hawken,” he said “I’ll trade you!”
I tried to tell him it was an unequal trade, that his was worth more than mine, but he said it wasn’t worth anything sitting in his closet. I told him I’d throw in the caps and balls. He said he was throwing in 100 balls and a bag of flints. We swapped, and I felt so bad that I gave him a ride to work for a couple of months.

Which is how I turned $50 into a Pedersoli Brown Bess carbine that got used for almost all of my reenacting for 20 years, carried hunting for a decade, and used as my Rendezvous gun for my first several camps. The funny part is that after I got into Rendezvous with OVPR, I ended up buying a secondhand caplock Investarms Bridger in .45, and she’s killed every deer I’ve ever killed on purpose.
Jay

 

[springfield art]

Is it rifled? I thought they were all smoothbore. Just wondering since the load recommendation.
You sure done good on the price! Mike Bellevue's youtube video on those is pretty entertaining.

It was a smoothie.

 

[wiscoaster]

...
It has the older Brass Barrel; .... (Barrel is proofed, so it's a 'live shooter; ....

You might want to hang on to that as a possible future collectible.

 

[Commodore Swab]

yone else have a story about something they couldn't turn down?

I traded a blunderbuss I just finished building for a 1929 Buick coupe.

With a little work I had her running and had driven her over a thousand miles in the first week. Haggarty insured it sight unseen for 20k.