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I would contact the museum at Colonial Williamsburg and ask who made the P1776 that they have on display. Probably English made but you never know.

Lee are fine but want at least double cavity, prefer 6 cavity. Someone has to have one they are not using. Thanks.

Whichever one had groves and lands of equal width. Although I know most period barrels were not cut this way. I think there's way more variables in barrel choice than number of grooves.

THANKS ALL! I downloaded and read the instruction sheet to get an understanding of how these things are supposed to work. Then I disassembled, cleaned and lubed the triggers. After reassembly and some trial and error adjustment the triggers are working. I think the adjustment screw must be short...

Previously I pulled the trigger and cannot get it to set out of the rifle. I'll pull it again tomorrow and degrease the assembly.

A few years ago I picked up a used percussion Lyman GPH, LH in 54 caliber. I'm just now getting around to shooting it but I cannot get the set trigger to work. The front trigger will fire the lock but is stiff. The rear trigger will not set the front trigger. I've pulled the triggers from the...

A magazine, which is now defunct I believe, called CIVIL WAR TIMES had an article on revolver shooting during the ACW. Specifically they compiled filed reports which specifically mention the use of revolvers. One of the interesting things in the article was several field reports mentioned which...

Among other interesting items the Appomattox Courthouse museum is a Remington revolver with shoulder stock. It's the only stocked Remington I've ever seen and I've been in a LOT of museums.

I was in the Army in the 80's and we were still issued an unmentionable pistol designed by John Browning. One year I was assigned Range NCO to the pistol range tasked with qualifying young LTs. We got so fed up with hearing how you cannot hit anything with the issued service pistol that I...

This spring, in a LGS, I found an ASM steel frame 60 Army Sherriff that looked unfired for less that $200. First time to the range it swallowed a cap and mushroomed the top of the trigger. I tried reshaping the trigger and hammer notches and thought it was fixed. Next range session the trigger...

Hey, If Louis L'Amour could stretch credibility to the breaking point with some of his characters shooting ability so can you. After all, embellishing some of the finer points of a story is in the finest Western story telling tradition.

Maybe it's the photos but those seem like excessive drag lines. Is there a timing issue?

I don't know the story behind these so you can make up whatever you like. The one on the right is marked Sheffield. It's a shame about the one on the left because it has a pretty good feel to it in the hand. These would look good in a shadowbox display, maybe with an old trap or other...

Very nice! If they ever get caught up enough to offer a left handed fowler I'll probably place one of the first dozen orders. With CNC programing it should be just a matter of time.

It's an English made shotgun with Birmingham proofs. The US Parker Brothers did import damascus barrels but they were Belgian barrels, not English. The English Parker gun company predates the US Parker Brothers by about 100 years. By the proof marks I'm guessing it was made sometime after 1900...

Is that a smooth bore with no rear sight?

Further research indicates this tomahawk is probably an item that was marketed as the Balanced Throwing Tomahawk and was made in Europe probably in the 60's or 70's. It's a pretty good copy of the Lewis tomahawk made by the Sheldon Wells Company, Kinzua, PA. in the 40's and 50's. Sheldon Wells...

This is an odd style and I don't really know the history. I've heard the shape called a Cherokee style hawk. The handle shown I do not think is original but I find the round eye odd. It may have been nickel plated at one time. I'm pretty sure it's steel rather than iron because of the slight...

Blade is approximately 5 1/4" long One side is marked E.C. Solingen Germany in three lines. Other side is marked 82X, Sheath is marked West Germany. I think the handle is antler, not plastic. This is very sharp whoever sharpened this knew what they were doing. Possibly a factory edge. USPO MO...

P.I.C., Solingen, Germany, in three lines. From what I've found on the internet P.I.C. either Precise International Company or Precise Instrument Company, was the company in NY who imported these knives and many other sporting items in the 50s and 60s.