TrapperDude
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That is pretty amazing. I didn't realize those pepper boxes had double-action triggers, let alone that anything wasn't single-action that early on.yes, it is a bar hammer, and the double-action trigger cocks/lifts the hammer and rotates the barrel cluster... here are the internals of the 1837 Patent version after I first got it and opened the cover plate:
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more close-ups of the dirty internals:
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the 1845 patent version is similar
Have you ever had a chance to fire it, or is it not safe enough for that? If you do fire it, you should make a YouTube video of it.