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  1. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Hi, Yes. The ball can be bigger than the bore so when fired , it expands fully into the barrel with or without rifling making a perfect gas seal much like a modern bullet and better than a patched ball loaded from the muzzle. Second, you simply fill the powder chamber so you always load the...
  2. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Ah Clark, You need to stop thinking like a machinist and more like an 18th century gun maker. Just kidding my friend! They are a challenge for sure. Fortunately, the flat side with the flint **** can be laid flat on a surface if you can clear the pan. That allows it to be held in position...
  3. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Hi Suss, Thanks for the comment. I always start by doing research. Then I devise a plan and jump in. I learn this stuff by studying but also by just going ahead and doing it. Sometimes that doesn't work out too well but I always learn something useful. dave
  4. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Hi, Done. I just have to make the barrel wrench. I am pretty happy with it. It is the second turn-off pistol I've built from TRS castings and that first experience really helped, primarily with constructing the lock mechanism. The barrel is 50 caliber and rifled. I did almost all the...
  5. dave_person

    Pedersoli to CoS conversion

    Hi CG, Good project! Double check the thickness of your lock plate where the slot for the sear spring is located. Often, they cut the mortise too deep such that there is almost no thickness left to the plate. If you do any engraving on that outside surface you may break into the slot...
  6. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Thanks for looking everyone, Bob, it is 50 caliber and rifled. I wish it was not rifled and more like 56 caliber. I suppose I could send the barrel out to someone like Bob Hoyt to get it reamed but the museum has not asked that I do that. I finished all the engraving including engraving "DP...
  7. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Hi, Thanks for looking and commenting. Got most of the engraving done. It is not ideal because I cannot get rid of all the cast in engraving. It is too deep and too much metal would have to be removed. So I have to reduce it as much as I can then use it as a guide for new engraving. It...
  8. dave_person

    Making an English Turn-off Pistol for Fort Dobbs

    Hi, I was asked late last year to make a 1730s English turn-off pistol for the Fort Dobbs museum from TRS parts. I built up the mechanism early last spring but then had to put it aside for several months due to other more pressing work. I got back to it early this month and am nearing...
  9. dave_person

    Rebuilding an old Indian made 1756 Brown Bess Musket

    Hi, Good on you! It came out pretty well. The handrail is a little too long and the shaping of the side plate panel is a little off but those are minor things. It looks a lot better than the stock India-made Besses. Hopefully the lock is good inside and out. Well done. dave
  10. dave_person

    Access Heritage Baker rifle cleaning rod modification

    Hi, That swell in the rod was designed to fill the forward ramrod pipe so the rod did not rattle loosely in the pipe. You can see the proper shapes in Bailey's book "British Military Flintlock Rifles" on page 113. By the looks of your gun, it is supposed to be a pattern 1805 or later...
  11. dave_person

    Latest build - English export fowling piece

    Hi Rich, Nice gun! I am guessing it is #154.MM in Neumann's book? So it is an English export gun restocked in the colonies in cherry (the original). Hence, the slight "Roman nose" stock and short baluster wrist. dave
  12. dave_person

    Kibler Fowler, Fusil conversion

    Hi Nick, I certainly have not shown that you can convert a Kibler, just speculated that it might be done if someone can accomplish the steps I described. I think it could be done having seen some original fusils that looked like slim fowlers with the changes I mentioned. Of course those guns...
  13. dave_person

    Kibler Fowler, Fusil conversion

    Hi, Yes, officers did use their bayonets when needed. Remember, we are discussing line officers here not senior commanders on horseback. The interest in arming line officers with fusils grew out of the British army's experience fighting in the forests of North America where it might be every...
  14. dave_person

    Kibler Fowler, Fusil conversion

    Hi Tenngun, No you are wrong. Officer fusils had bayonets that were carbine or full sized and officers were expected to use them and fire the gun particularly when in the forested environments in North America. Some generals, Clinton, Burgoyne, and Cornwallis, discouraged fusil use but Howe...
  15. dave_person

    Kibler Fowler, Fusil conversion

    Hi, As someone who built several authentic British officer's fusils, I think you could do it and it might turn out quite nicely. However, some things to think about. First, it would be best if the gun was 16 gauge. I don't know if Jim offers that size or not but that would be close to the...
  16. dave_person

    Help with identifying flintlock rifle

    Hi, What James wrote. Nice early 18th century English gun. dave
  17. dave_person

    Rice Golden Age 48” barrel finding a stock blank

    Hi, Dave Keck will do either. You can buy wood from him, send your barrel and he will inlet the barrel and ramrod hole as well as profile the stock or you can send him your own wood. dave
  18. dave_person

    Rice Golden Age 48” barrel finding a stock blank

    Hi, An option is to contact Dave Keck at Knob Mountain Muzzleloading. He has a website so search online. He can put in the barrel, drill the ramrod hole and profile your stock for any number of Lehigh Valley guns including those by the Rupps and the Molls. The Killdeer rifle is a fantasy gun...
  19. dave_person

    Original notched breech plugs

    Hi, Yes, I cleaned it up inside and out and intend to use it to make an early 18th century Spanish gun. Here is a picture of the bore. It will be stocked up, polished, temper blued, and the markings gilt. dave
  20. dave_person

    Original notched breech plugs

    Hi, Here is one by Nicholas Bis made no later than 1713. Bis is considered by many to be the greatest barrel maker during the late 1600s and early 1700s. I cleaned up the barrel and breech plug and polished off the corrosion on the inside. The plug has the 7 threads found on almost all Spanish...
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