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Bill, I'm not an attorney and this isn't legal advice, but what I learned online is that it's the shipper's responsibility to comply with shipping legality. Fuse can legally go via USPS but it must be by ground only, not air, and the box must be marked hazmat. Mine came marked like that and I...

75 yards, can you believe that!!?? Well, neither can I. Actually, it was 10 yards.

Frontstuffer you found the fun and now you just need to fine tune it. :thumb: Here's my target from today. Fuse and punk makes all the difference. Next time out I'm going to 15 yards.

FYI, the touch hole diameter of my handgonne barrel is 3/32" (.093"/2.36mm). I just received 2mm fuse and it fits perfectly and snugly. Previously due to something I had read, I posted that 2.5mm should work, but that would have been too large.

Hooray, Huzzah, Yipeekyoh! No matter how you pronounce it, fun is spelled handgonne. I'm expecting my fuse tomorrow or Friday. Keep us posted.

Well I pronounce it "hand gun-uh" to differentiate from "handgun". Gotta go, wife wants to know if I want toe-may-toe or toe-mah-toe on my salad.

No, the one they sent me was essentially as pictured except it was in the white and the squared sharp ends of the powder chamber area and muzzle are smoothed somewhat. Nicer looking. You can find some pics of mine on this forum.

OMG, did you forget to ask her that?

I hope your dealings with them mirror mine, and I bet they will. That old saw about salt or honey is true. 🍀

Yes, from comments made by others in this forum section I'm not doubting that, and it's good that you point it out. In my experience, though, I decided to turn loose some of my income tax refund $ so I emailed them with a couple questions and got a reply within a few days. Knowing of the...

Just for the heck of it I calculated the Taylor Knock Out factor of the 50gr 3F load that I've been using in my gonne. The 550gr .715 diameter ball is leaving the muzzle at just a bit over 800fps. That gives it a knight in armor busting TKO of 45. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of...

I bow to Flint62's vast experience and knowledge, but offer this for consideration. Yeah, BillinOregon, whichever way you go, you gotta get in the game!

You know, I asked myself today if I felt lucky and honestly those five were the best ones of the day, and the final ones I shot. Harry Callahan must have been smiling down on this punk. Yeah, I'm a convert, I drank the Kool Aid. :thumb:

The fun never stops and the accuracy was totally unexpected. Five shots offhand at ten yards. Tiller rested on right shoulder and pressed down tight with my left hand. Handgonne loaded with 50gr Goex 3F and a.715" ball with a coffee filter wad fore and aft. I touched it off with a long punk from...

Man, that is a beauty. Get set for fun.

You're right about that! The 28th of this month, 521 years ago, the battle of Cerignola, Italy, was fought with the Spanish forces annihilating the opposing French. There were over 15,000 combatants on the field and at the end of the day Spain lost about 500, but for the French the number was...

Wow, I wish WE were friends. Excellent work!

You might try this from Lowes and under $10. I sanded, stained, and woodburned it. Just a little tapering to fit the gonne socket and a liberal dose of JB Weld and I was in business. A couple coats of neutral shoe polish finished it off. Good luck.

I hope you do it, Frontstuffer070, you WILL have fun. The handgonne is mounted to a tiller b/c that's what the gonner uses to aim the shot much like a tiller is used to guide a boat. Hang in this forum and you will learn, as I am, a lot from the guys who are into these guns that started it all.

Yes, thanks flatcreek. That's a good thought but I'm holding drilling as a last resort because the flame shooting up from the present hole, which is 3/32", is so tremendous I don't want to increase it unless absolutely necessary. It's taken me 77 years to get a handgonne, so I can wait a bit...