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    17th barrel flintlock!?

    Or 'anti-boarding gun'. Good for clearing packed decks or narrow hallways. Probably a ripple-fire.
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    holy cow what a gun

    For those of you looking for inspiration, in the French style: An original, on auction http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=55148409 And a very nice reproduction, by Mr. Donelson http://www.donelsoncustommuzzleloaders.com/pistols.html Note his comment - This project is shown as...
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    holy cow what a gun

    You can not cut a breech loading long arm down to a pistol length breechloader, without proper approval and registration. As for welding up a breechloader so that it can't function with cartridges, I dunno. It'd be easier (legally and logistically) to find a reproduction double barrel...
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    holy cow what a gun

    http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/antique_guns/purdey_howdah/howdah.html Read about large bore double pistols, particularly the recoil effects (last paragraph)
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    holy cow what a gun

    No, it's illegal to cut down a breechloading shotgun or rifle to pistol length - even if the pistol is muzzleloading - without proper registration and paying the tax.
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    Steam Canon

    How about in .69 caliber? :winking: [url] http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/may/winans-steam-gun.htm[/url]
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    Tower pistol? Refinish an old CVA?

    Springs. Big deal. Here's an original percussion version, for inspiration -[url] http://www.forthehunt.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?item=54795986[/url]
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    Tower pistol? Refinish an old CVA?

    And another original, for inspiration[url] http://www.antiques--art.com/items/5861/item5861store.html[/url]
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    Tower pistol? Refinish an old CVA?

    CDG, Here's an original, for inspiration. http://www.horstheld.com/0-Tower.htm Note how the stock is shaped under the muzzle, as well as the rather large belt hook and the brass-tipped wooden ramrod. While the Japanese/Dixie/CVA 'Tower' pistols have shorter barrels, no reason you can't copy...
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    Fun project

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    Fun project

    The guys with 37mm launchers use 35mm plastic film containors for their chalk carriers.
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    Fun project

    Just imagine what a 1/4lb of chalk dust would do to a company of Doodles at a reenactment! :rotf:
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    Fun project

    caulk or chalk? :grin: A big poof of orange *snoke* would be hilarious.
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    Fun project

    Cool. :bow: How far did ya launch the tennis ball?
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    Fort Crevecoeur?

    New research rekindles debate over old French fort 19 June 2006 Associated Press BEARDSTOWN, Ill. - Marty Fischer thinks this small central Illinois town has been robbed of a stake in history long credited to its bigger neighbors about 75 miles up the Illinois River. Fischer says his research...
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    New Style Chambers Lock

    Nice. How many hours did that take?
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    What do I do with it now?

    Make a cutlass-pistol? Stylin' flintlock repro http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/cas/images/1052-G.jpg Elgin original http://www.nagelsguns.net/Elgin_Cutlass_Pistol.htm A potential donor blade could be the 1860 Navy cutlass http://arms2armor.com/store/product301.html Sarco has the same...
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    Fun project

    Cool. While we're waiting, does anyone have close-ups of the one in the West Point museum collection?
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    Fun project

    Roy and GoF, How are your grenade launchers coming?
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    Jamestown's GODSPEED on tour

    Ship's Tour Launches Jamestown 400th Anniversary Commemoration AP Monday, May 22, 2006 JAMESTOWN, Va. ”” A replica of one of the three ships that carried the founders of America's first permanent English settlement to Virginia in 1607 embarked Monday on an East Coast tour. The voyage of the...
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