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Here are other photos that show no text under the loading lever and a mixed brass and steel trigger guard and blackstrap. Any idea what this Frankenpistol is all about? Thanks.

I’m curious about this 1860 I bought out of an online auction in Alberta Canada for about $500 CDN with taxes etc. Came with case etc. As photos show. The site advertised it as a Westerner‘s Arms Pietta with issues that might require a gunsmith. The Westerner‘s Arms barrel stamp doesn’t look...

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Thanks. Box has a sliding lid and is for patches. The five dimples are for round balls.

I had two muzzleloading pistols when I started out 10 years ago. A double barrel percussion and a single barrel flintlock. I made a stand to convert by slipping a different sized barrel holder over the upright Which is hinged and folds down. Fits nicely into the metal box I used to take them to...

Exactly my wife’s opinion. I definitely will never shoot it until fully convinced it has been made safe. Thanks. I was wondering if anyone had ever witnessed such a failure.

Trackofthewolf. Had to file down the post through the bridle to fit. Put the tumbler square in my drill press and held a small diamond file against it to keep it round. Slight difference in the length of the stirrup, but got it to fit by strong compression of the main spring when reinstalling...

Yeah. I have a fondness for backaction percussions. But there is sure nothing to complain about such a rifle as the front action above.

Thanks everyone. Advice is greatly appreciated. I’ll have another good look at the bolster threads tomorrow and move on from there. FYI here is another auction of a Daniel Risher half stock with some bio info I found after making my purchase.

I’m thinking they are too corroded. I just screwed in another nipple and it went in quite tight but likely making its own threads. Not safe.

I’ve just been working on an original Daniel Risher half stock back action percussion rifle from the 1840s. I have put in a new tumbler with fly. The old one would not hold on half cock. Now it does. Since the wood stock has shrunk a bit you have to set the trigger before cocking to get the sear...

Rainy Sunday. Went to the rifle range at our club meeting a friend there at 12:30 when we can be safe from the skeet clays. Debated on an easy unmentionables shoot or a more complicated Black powder foray. Decided on the more difficult, never shot, antique Jeager percussion rifle I got a while...

Thanks. When I first got it I didn’t know what the broken piece by the lock bolt was all about. Searching on the web, I found the pictures below on a European auction site. The top pictures are of my pistol as I bought it.

Charleville French army flintlock usually had a belt hook.

Antique pistol I got at online auction with broken tumbler shaft and broken off belt hook. I got it up and running. Very accurate shooter.

Nice gun and kit for sure. Welcome from Caledon hills Ontario Canada.

My screw into the bottom of the barrel is under the trigger guard at the front. Very strange. I removed it and left it out. The barrel is held on with a wedge. Actually it is one of a pair of boxed Jukar dueling pistols. They both had the strange screws. One was missing a screw to raise and...

That is my belief. They were small pocket pistols subject to a lot of bouncing around. I believe the cap guards also functioned to retain the cap from being dropped into the pocket. Yes, they may have to be reseated on the nipple as you turn the barrel, but at least you don’t have to rummage...

Welcome from the Caledon hills, Ontario Canada.

Well I wasn’t joking about steaming wood. Check out some of the repairs listed by Tim Owen on his web site http://www.cablesfarm.co.uk/. It can’t fix every antique wood issue, but it can bring back some dints, etc. Just trying to be helpful.