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That’s a pretty good price for a really well kept piece. I don’t own anything I haven’t shot.

As others have already stated, buckshot can be devastating at close range. However, the pattern opens up real fast no matter what choke...

Yea I discolored an area around the front sight but it does not look too bad. Black marker and only I know its there, granted I have...

mine was a smoothbore.

I have one of those.

I am going to try to solder it. The guns that I use regularly get well broken in so looks are not as important as function. I am used...

Not as far as I know but its made by Harris (Haris?). I don't know what its silver content is. Used to be called Staybright 8 but...

are there different kinds of stay brite solder?

I do not have the ability to dovetail. what is the best solder to use for someone who only has a plumbers torch?

the loading lever fell out of my 1858 pietta last night. almost looks like it broke off? there is a slight circular indentation that it...

That was my very first pistol. I bought it out of the back of a field and stream magazine when I was perhaps 12 or 13years old. Dirt...

I bet plenty of them got smoked with a 30-30 , 32 special and the 35 marlin/Remington. The 303 British which is considerably less...

Went on a pretty long ski hunt today. Did a bunch of trail work, lots of blowdowns so I brought a hand saw and an 1858 instead of a...

Clients tend to guys with money and little sense. Bad shooting is common so the guides are fully prepared to deal with a bad shot...

Some years in AK, more folks are mauled by black bear than Brown/grizzly (which are the same species by the way) only diet and location...