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Rick, Dale, y'all are killin' me here! Beautiful examples. :cool: I agree, Rick, that the TRS #766 would be a perfect model to duplicate.

It appears the familiar current iteration dates to 1893, but it is indeed inspired by the ancient curule chair...

Just curious: if Jim Kibler -- or one of the better India houses -- offered an escopeta with a decent miquelet lock, would you be tempted to buy one?

Dale, it is just gorgeous. Congratulations on giving it a great home. You show fine technique in the video clip. May need to re-christen yourself Snap77smoothie. 😅

Mike, I would trust Pedersoli to not get it quite right and charge an arm and a leg. 😅

Kid, I am old enough with cataract surgery that seeing the sights is not the first priority!😅

Here's a nice one. As far as I know it was the primary Spanish long arm in the New World. https://jeff-john.com/occasional-gazette/f/the-spanish-escopeta

Yeah, yeah, yeah, laugh all you want. But I have been thinking about escopetas ahead of moving back to New Mexico and it occurred to me that if there was decent demand for one -- and a decent miquelet lock was available-- I bet Jim could sell dozens of them. Once you get up off the floor and...

I knew these weren't HC, but had no idea they came to us from Africa -- or what they were originally used for! Thanks for the link, Dave.

Offering these as a batch: Charles Hanson's "Trade Rifle Sketch Book," Hamilton's "Colonial Frontier Gun," Stevenson's "The Clash of Empires, The British, French and Indian War," and Jim Mullins' "Of Sorts for Provincials, American Weapons of the French and Indian War." All are in good to very...

Wow, Phil. No, you DON'T want to be behind it!

I'll third that. You guys that have the skill and equipment to shape metal with precision have my utmost respect.

Wonderfully executed, and the photo of you and your late father makes it particularly special.

One wonders if in practice they inserted three fuses of varying lengths and lit them all at once before "aiming" before each chamber went off.

Lived most of my life in ponderosa country—and a few years in digger pine country — but never tried this. Great job Waksupi!

SPF gentlemen. Will confirm when I receive funds and ship. Thank you.

Thursday bump.

Investarm is still making the classic Plains Pistol kit they used to make for Lyman and here is one that is NIB. Asking $300 shipped USPS priority insured, including an unopened box of 100 Hornady .530 swaged round balls.

Appreciate all the thoughts and replies, gentlemen. On a side note, when I hear the word kapok, I think back on the incredibly bulky WWII-surplus kapok-filled life vests my dad insisted on me wearing as a little kid in the 1950s. I can still hear him pumping up the surplus four-man life raft...

Sent you a PM. Thanks!