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sportster73hp
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Parts seem old or original but the hatchet seems added. The wood also felt newer.
Interesting for sure. Did you cough up the $900?
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NO !
May have coughed up a few hundred for the lock but not $900…
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This pistol likely is one of the better tourist items from the pre-1960 era. Built with a newer stock, but using an original lock, barrel, and ball trigger. They were built this way for the tourists while there were still a supply of original locks and barrels available locally. The brass axe head, and likely the brass trigger guard were likely added by some hobbyist later in the 20th/21st century. The hobbyist not knowing that ball triggers were rarely used in conjunction with trigger guards. The lock on the pistol is a very common Balkan miquelet from the period. And the barrel looks the same. Definitely not a $900.00 gun. Maybe $3-400.00 for the lock, barrel, and trigger. JMO I have a similar pistol less the axe and guard.
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straight out of the prop room for the Pirates of the Caribbean!
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That goes to prove the old complaint about a gun that kills at both ends.
It has Khyber Pass tourist gun written all over it to me.
Howsomever b there were old guns that looked like that
Done for boarding ships at sea. Shoot an enemy, hack an enemy or more important hack the rigging so the ships disabled
Done for boarding ships at sea. Shoot an enemy, hack an enemy or more important hack the rigging so the ships disabled
Gives you one single shot in combat and a sorry excuse for a cutlass or axe.
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I have purchased a similar wall hanger
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Saw the gun again this pat weekend. Actually talked to the seller. His price was $400. That’s a big drop from the tag. Still didn’t buy it.
Not meant to be fired. As was mentioned, Kyber Pass wall hanger for the tourists. I used to see them for sale in Shotgun News.
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It is a shame someone worked so hard to make it look nice and it shouldn’t be shot.
Tourist bait!
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Nice find, seen something similar 10-12 years ago don`t remember the price then I don`t know $900 asking, not for me $200-$300 in the lock perhaps I don`t see more than $25-$30 in the rest of it, then again my last "Show" was 10-12 years ago for those reasons, I do not stroke egos.
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