DanielA
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CMC 85247 A. Is only markings on a single fire muzzleloading pistol. VERY old all my searches comes up no results found. Can anyone point me in right direction to get info on this find
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Classic Arms. A lot of these were sold as kits. Single shot, snake eyes, pepper box and twister I think.
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My Dad bought several of the Classic Arms pistol kits iirc back in the 1970's at places like K Mart. I have the New Orleans Ace and the pictured ethan allan pepperbox. The pepperbox was still in kit form when I decided to assemble it after having it sit in my closet for more then 20 years.
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After assembling the pepperbox I had to take it to the range. It was wildly inaccurate, I think the roundballs I loaded it with were undersized. This was my "group" from about 5 yards away.
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Enough to discourage an attacker in the 1840’s…
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If nothing else the noise and the multiple barrels probably scared the crap out of would be thieves.
Have you read what Mark Twain said about pepper box pistols? Your's is shooting good.
Just be careful if there are mules in the neighborhood.
George Bemis . . . wore in his belt an old original "Allen" revolver, such as irreverent people called a "pepper-box." Simply drawing the trigger back, cocked and fired the pistol. As the trigger came back, the hammer would begin to rise and the barrel to turn over, and presently down would drop the hammer, and away would speed the ball. To aim along the turning barrel and hit the thing aimed at was a feat which was probably never done with an "Allen" in the world. But George's was a reliable weapon, nevertheless, because, as one of the stage-drivers afterward said, "If she didn't get what she went after, she would fetch something else." And so she did. She went after a deuce of spades nailed against a tree, once, and fetched a mule standing about thirty yards to the left of it. Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to buy it, anyhow. It was a cheerful weapon--the "Allen." Sometimes all its six barrels would go off at once, and then there was no safe place in all the region round about, but behind it.
- Roughing It - Mark Twain
- Roughing It - Mark Twain
I have the pepper box and the New Orleans Ace, bought them about 50 years ago. Never fired either one. Maybe I'll get them out and shoot them.
