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    Welding brass

    Specifically, snapped trigger guards. Any tricks or tutorials out there?
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    Major Georg von Reichwein's snaphaunce revolver

    Saw this elsewhere, don't recollect anyone ever discussing it here - touted as "the world's oldest revolver was made in 1597 by a weapon produser named Hans Stopler in Nüremberg Germany." http://www.maihaugen.no/en/Top-menu/Knowledge/Collections/Historical-object-collection/Weapons-collections/...
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    1860 Colt Shoulder Stock

    Well? :PhotoSmile:
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    Quayside cannon in Cork, IE?

    Stumbled upon this and thought folks here would be amused - http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/grandparade/cannon/ Particularly with Cork City Council Archaeologist Ciara Brett's comment that it "stylistically represents the inverted barrel of a cannon". Right.
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    Black powder hand mortar

    Have you seen this? http://www.veteranarms.com/ReproductionMuzzleloadersandFlintlocks/Hand-Mortar.html
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    Kings Howtizer Build

    What sort of living history presentation do you do with it? Any chance of a youtube video of that?
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    Grandpa's Cannon -- Need Some Advice

    I'd vote to remove the original three wheels and two axles, fit a pair of replacement axles onto a new set of wheels. Check your PMs, I think I found a set on ebay that would suit your needs.
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    Large Caliber Smoothbore Percussion pistol?

    The Lemat revolver has nine .44 chambers around a 20 gauge smoothbore barrel.
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    The Brown Bess in California history

    http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/paal/thunder-cannon/chap4.htm http://www.warandgame.info/2008/03/weapons-of-mexican-war-18461847.html A VERY GOOD MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR PERIOD "PAGET" TYPE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK CARBINE, ca. 1835: http://www.ambroseantiques.com/flongarms.htm...
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    I have a very strange old cap and ball rifle or shotgun that I re

    Neat article on hunting with the Thai tribesmen and one of their muzzleloaders
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    Flintlock Double Barrel Coach Gun?

    They're in the Free State of New Hampshire, don't know what you'd need to do to get it into the People's Republik of Kalifornia. http://www.middlesexvillagetrading.com/contact.htm :idunno: Seriously, shoot 'em an email.
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    Flintlock Double Barrel Coach Gun?

    Actually, it was MVTC's weapon - good price, too. Contact him directly at his website.
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    Can we see some Fowlers...

    That just gives it an extra-special MoJo and the stock characterizin' is great! Can anyone recommend a source for a Germanic 1750-1760 halfstock fowler (just the stock, only)?
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    Muzzleloaders turned breechloader

    Kabar, That'd be dandy - looking forward to those pics, and thanks for the illumination. :thumbsup:
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    Muzzleloaders turned breechloader

    Anyone see this? $25k, such a bargain! http://www.ima-usa.com/original-british-1895-bronze-6lb-breech-loading-cannon-from-the-northwest-frontier.html obsolete late 18th century muzzle loading bronze cannons left over from the Napoleonic wars were pressed into service one last time. These were...
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    The Great Rev War Flint Musket test of 2012

    ..while using period drills : 1764, Von Steuben, French, Prussian (Hessian).
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    Punt guns

    Found some interesting videos and updates on these guns, figured I'd share them. Punt Gun demonstration at Ballywalter Game Fair, April 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9r_ZckAmkc Punt Gunner Andy said: "The punt was made in Coleraine and has seen action on Lough Foyle and Larne Lough...
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    Rev War Artillery

    Check out http://www.americanrevolution.org/artillery.html see also http://www.jaegerkorps.org/amusette.html
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    The MVTCo 1740 Potsdam Musket

    Just to clarify, the Model 1809 Prussian Musket is a Germanic copy of the Charleville design (barrel bands, etc), while the 1740 and it's derivatives (1782) are more along the lines of the Brown Bess (pinned barrel). The captured Hessian muskets held by American forces after the war were all...
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    Two Man Weapons Teams

    Bench rifles like the Jack Morgan, or heavy barreled Kentucky look-alikes like Hinson's. Jack Hinson's neutrality was shattered the day Union patrols moved in on his land, captured two of his sons, accused them of being bushwhackers, and executed them on the roadside. The soldiers furthered the...
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