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Mr Person - are there any close-up photos you'd like me to get for you using Steve's excellent Baker rifle? It was as good a one-for-one copy of an officer's model rifle as Mr Dyson could make it, and he used his own genuine rifle to do it. Ten years ago this cost $7500 here in UK.

I have around ten thousand pictures of Oregon - top to bottom and left to right. Mrs tac and I never tire of being there. Our dear friend Bill in Oregon - on these very pages, knows what I'm talking about.

Welcome from near Cambridge - the real one, not the Massachusetts version. :)

After all, the king was the third Hanoverian king, and he imported troops, many of who fought for his government during the Revolution. The King's German Legion comes to mind, as do the Hessians - and others.

My shooting pal, Steve, has a Baker rifle built by Peter Dyson, using, we are pretty sure, TRS components. It took Mr Dyson about five years, BTW. It looks VERY good and handles much the same as the real thing - having shot four of the real thing, I can say that with a degree of assurance...

I'd move to a place next to our dear old friend Alma in a New York minute, if I could. This is the view off the deck - Breakfast with my two lovely ladies - one is Mrs tac and the other is dear friend Alma.... Sunrise - ..Mrs tac and me taken by dear pal Dick at Battle Rock Beach..

The broader 'belt' or 'band' made by loading a larger diameter bullet also makes for more accuracy.

That'll sting.

Meanwhile, over here in UK and in much of Europe, each and every one of these lovely handguns is classed as an individual firearm on a firearms license, and in the Republic of Ireland prohibited totally.....

Welcome from a long-lost Canuckian over here in Fenland Cambridgeshire! My family are all situated between 2 and 20 miles from Trenton ON. and tomorrow I'll be shooting a couple of Canadian Sniders - well, they USED to be muzzleloaders, right?

Hey, when you get around to it, they'll shoot a patched ball over about 15gr or so of 3Fg. Light loads are usual for that kind of target pistol - see capandball shooting his Pedersoli LePage pistol....on Youtube!

Kia ora! That is a lovely pair of late 1840's/early 1850's target or travelling pistols in the style of LePage. 11mm is about right, but we need to see the form of the backsight to be able to tell any more about them. Any maker's marks? Top of the barrel, maybe? A similar pistol here in UK...

The screw on my Uberti Walker revolver broke off like cheese the first time I tried to take it out....now THAT was a RPITA.

Welcome from a part-time PNW-onian and family!

Welcome from East Anglia, where we fly the state flag of Oregon every February 14th. :)

Metric please. It would never be measured in inches.

Surely your OWN safety should come first? Then that of anybody standing around you who might get hit by fragments of either of your guns. Or of you.

The United Kingdom was only at war in the 1850s in the Crimea. The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 was not viewed as a war, but an armed rebellion/insurgency. At least one of these rifles was 'sold out of service' to the commercial market. The crown with a vertical arrow is the sign applied when this...

'kay. Never been there, me. I'll look it up. Do ever visit Joe and Suzi in Springfield?

Where in Oregon? Just me being nosy, is all. We spend time in OR every year we can.