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    My latest daydream: A Kibler escopeta ...

    Dear Bill .Yes but only one My friend took me to a viewing of pre Columbia art . I might have notes on my museum visit I was thinking more of Catalonian Civil guards but the styles the same My lock might be Algerian copy but was all I had & I thought it suitable . "Ola y qua tal Y un muy...
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    My latest daydream: A Kibler escopeta ...

    Dear Bill. I don't laugh I've made an Escopeta ,Catalan Stock more Spanish border guard but typical enough' Escopeta ' .Only did it to put an original Belt hook into historic prospective . I seem to recall some on display at the Santa Fe Museum .Then that 1840s Matchlock pops up in gun...
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    Please Help to Identify smooth bore flintlock......Thanks!!!

    If you not talking about the' Steel 'the other S shape is called a' **** ' its not a' Hammer '& the Steel was by some called a 'Hammer' ',Battery & a' Hen'at some periods ..Logically enough. Which is that Rudyard being penicaty .But we don't call the lock an' action' or a 'platform'. I've...
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    Help identifying flintlock pistol

    Well the Pranceing horse looks ver y Juan de Soto but the counter mark dosnt fit
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    Help identifying flintlock pistol

    I was thinking Austrian stocking & perhaps a Spanish barrel the Poincions suggest that . So Ile dig out Lavin & Kieth Neales books see what who it might be made the barrel s (pistols made by the brace there might be its mate out there yet )Well the Prancing horse looks very Juan de...
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    Please Help to Identify smooth bore flintlock......Thanks!!!

    With the effort put into the mounts its odd if it has an unbridled steel (most call a frizzen ) first glance ime thinking a 'commercial' for some vollunteer house hold /.Estate Or Might be made in the Colonies by migrant arizans hence no proofs & no Bridle . I mean WE make guns...
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    WANTED WTB .510 RB mould

    Lem moulds in UK will make any odd size moulds . Rudyard
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    T.Walton

    Then its a mystery T Walton likely a retailer .Sorry cant help further Looks very rough workman ship Regards Rudyard
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    NMLRA membership increase

    Thrifty ? Ime so thrifty I make Scrooge look like a spend thrift . But you are right we do tend to be cautious with our money . Rudyard's view
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    NMLRA membership increase

    From the Glory days of NMLRA & huge activity at Freind Ship shoots in the late 70s early 80s It seems a great shame.to we older shooters who knew those days Also by the very nature of passing times find the 'Sticker shock 'of so much now that seems so much dearer. like all the Goex...
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    T.Walton

    While the bigger mark looks vaigley like the Birmingham Provisional proof the crowns make no sense & there is no T Walton in Bailey & Nies listings of Birmingham or Provincial firm's . Any other marks like crossed maces ?. Rudyard
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    Ottoman Guns

    Ide' Third it ' if you can have one? & I've not seen his ones on that topic .With all these 'Thirds' weve nearly got a whole quarter ! Rudyard's appreciation
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    Safely firing an antique gun

    Its got Nocks patent breach so the rod wont go down as if it where a common plug .Re nipple I dont alter them if sound as the threads are not the usual modern & can do more harm than good though my learned friend thinks opposite . Regards Rudyard
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    Safely firing an antique gun

    Good maker nice twist barrel looks sound as bell' looks like nicely altered from flint by the maker or as good I would have no worries. But its in your hands .Rudyard
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    W.G. RAWBONE, CAPE TOWN (Rifle/Fowler)

    Clear Birmingham proof marks in a Twist barrel NOT Damascus as such but good as . The Shop was still tradeing in 1970 in Cape Town I bought a pen knife from them nothing wrong about tradeing under another name .IF there is a bore size stamp that should clinch the if as first a gun...
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    Questions regarding an England and Scotland trip in 2025

    Dear War paint Well unless Ivan the terrible nukes it England & Scotland Ireland & Wales will still be there . Congratulation's Rudyard
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    New member from “old” England

    Not sure how this popped up might get the Bisley fire pic now ? Dear Martin might be a good plan to contact the MLAGB should be a branch within reach & there was a 'Southern Counties Patched ball group' attached to the MLA Used to have R vous in darkest Surrey but that was years ago...
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    How varied was the craftsmanship on original Kentucky rifles?

    I cant say how typical but while I strive to provide patrons guns good as I can. I am less critical on ones I made for me to use my favorite's oft a I 'got up' with old barrels ,reject stocks and what I figured warranted knocking up as a challenge .Sort of" Cobblers kids are poorest shod...
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    Building a TRS Scottish Pistol (?)

    'Like' but confused why use the TRS as a pattern & make new parts perhaps your going to make a wood stocked Scots issue ? that would seem a good idea. I only recently learned there where wood stocked' rams horn' issued style . I have known & made ' Lemon butt ' wood stocked...
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    Moroccan moukhala reproduction - legit?

    Looks like they are having fun I only saw a ceremonial charge firing off these guns on horses in Agadir for visit of King Hassan the Second back in 1965.But I did see an original Snaphance still in use in Algeria which wasn't too for away & East of Agadir fA fine old gentleman had it ...
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