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Dear friends of the black stuff Each to his own ! I can only talk from my own expirences with old target pistols , which were made after ca 1840 . ( OK , some flinters from the early 1800 , too ) The ones , which I personally own and also those , which I could handle from friend's collections...

Be sure : ALL OF MY ORIGINALS are carefully inspected and test fired in a safe place with a string , clamped to a kind of vice , before I shoot them ! And remember : more than one that I inspected after I've bought it , turned out loaded ! ALLWAYS BE CAREFUL !

You may call me a "barbar" , but for over 30 years now , I'm shooting but original , vintage pistols . I started BP shooting with my first pistol , a Pedersoli " Le Page" , which was , and still is a very nice and precise pistol . Then , I could shoot my first "original" , a Belgian "mid...

Congratulitions for Your gorgeous revolver . Me , too, am shooting an 1854 Adams beauty , made and singned by LAC ( London Arms Company ) in competition . It's not a CSA signed gun , but only for comparison . There were not only Colts in the ancient world ! Others , too , made great guns ...

This main spring is not from an underhammer type , where the trigger guard is also acting as main spring like the Billinghurst etc. , but from an original , vintage Ruggles patent gun .

The with of the spring is slightly less than the with of the "system" and the slot is also close to the with of the penetrating trigger . Please see the attatched photos of an original , vintage spring .

If You are interested , there is another thread that might give You an idea what could be made even from some "scrap" material : https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/goodies-i-like-to-own.120297/

... and still some potential for some higher score :D:D:D

Today , finally our shooting range has opened for the first time since Corona and I've promised to show , how my new built "Corona - Spl." performs . Load is 6,5gr Swiss No.1 , .290 RB pure lead , 0,01 patch , spit . 25m distance . I shot free hand standing on intl. competition target (...

Auch von mir ein herzliches Willkommen ! Falls Du irgendwelche Fragen hast , darfst Du Dich gerne auch an mich wenden . Ich sammle und schiesse schon seit über 40 Jahre Vorderlader , von militärischen Waffen verstehe ich allerdings nicht allzu viel ...Dafür aber umso mehr von Scheiben/Duell -...

Thank You . Now I not only have read but hopefully understood the rules .

Hi , Zonie , Your'e absolutely right , but in this thread one or the other might be thinking of a reconverted pistol here and therefore proposed it to formerly have been a breechloader , in the first instance remembering the invention of a French gunmaker . I'd also were glad , if the...

be sure , as a collector/shooter , I never made , make or will make any fakes ! I'm also not interested in making much money , but rather to preserve beautiful antique works of art

Thank You very much for Your input and most of all , the attached drawing of the system , which really shows some similarity with my pistol ! For a pure target pistol , if wouldn't make much sense for having a side cocking hammer that would destroy the clear line of sight , and it also would...

I don't think so , when you take another look , You will find , that te nipple is installed with a slight upward ankle , also the size of the breech plug hook is too narrow and is also a patent breech plug that couldn't have been converted

Most European target pistols had similar trigger guards then , I have and handled dozens of them ... BUT : Your motto really impresses me !

This was also my first idea , but the Flobert parlor pistols were made later and are breech loaders . Some of them were converted in Germany from the 70' on by threading in a nipple and grinding the face of the hammer flat , due to the very restrictive German gun control , which only allows...

Fortunately , the base of the hammer was still present . With lots of thoughts/drawings/trials , I was lucky to reshape it as I think , it should be , and most of all , it works . But still , I don't know , who could have invented/built this entire pisto/system l 😞 Really astonishing , but...

For over 40 years now , I'm a collector/shooter of vintage target pistols and litterally hundreds of them , I was able to handle/possess , restaure /shoot/trade to fellow shoters , but recently , I've got that one chance in my collecting live ,having been able to purchase something , what I...

I know , my post is a little out of topic , but maybe , there is someone who likes to read it since I also had a stuck load : It's almost 40 years ago that I offered my help to the local museum of my home town , who had a really nice collection of different , scarce and interestig , but...