First Date with a French Dragoon

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Notchy Bob said:
I went back and watched the video. Again, you did a fine job building the pistol, and that's good shooting, too! I think I heard you say on the video that it was loaded with forty grains of powder, and I gather from post #16 that it was loaded with shot. Can you provide more details about your load?

I don't know if anyone is interested, but here is a tale of another old French flintlock pistol, and its owner, who traveled from Montreal to Montana, back in the Shining Times: Hugh Monroe's Pistol

Now I want one. Dang it....

Best regards,

Notchy Bob
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Be glad to share, but it's rather basic. The load was 40 grains of 3F, and I rammed a 1" square piece of denim down on top (my over-shot wads didn't arrive yet). I dumped in a small pile of #7 shot, the load was about as high in my cupped hand as a ball would be, and then I rammed some damp denim (from spit) atop the shot.
That was my first go at it with my Dragoon pistol. Worked pretty well I think :)
I will check out that story link, thanks Notchy Bob.
 
Well, every time I try to watch your video it tells me an error has occurred and to try again later, tried later several times and apparently "later" never delivers. Anyway I really like your pistol, nice job!!!!
Robby
 
Robby said:
Well, every time I try to watch your video it tells me an error has occurred and to try again later, tried later several times and apparently "later" never delivers. Anyway I really like your pistol, nice job!!!!
Robby
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That’s strange you are getting that message. Did you try viewing the video on a computer or phone?
 
What a beautiful job you made of that pistol - it's just so elegant and graceful, you can have a hard time reminding yourself that it's a martial pistol, and not one of a pair made for a wealthy gentleman traveller of the day. From what little I've seen over the years, French firearms designs tended to be more graceful than either their German or English counterparts - certainly true where the Charleville musket was concerned, and this lovely pistol here.

Many congratulations on its completion and successful first firing!
 
TFoley said:
What a beautiful job you made of that pistol - it's just so elegant and graceful, you can have a hard time reminding yourself that it's a martial pistol, and not one of a pair made for a wealthy gentleman traveller of the day. From what little I've seen over the years, French firearms designs tended to be more graceful than either their German or English counterparts - certainly true where the Charleville musket was concerned, and this lovely pistol here.

Many congratulations on its completion and successful first firing!
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Thank you TFoley. I agree with you about the gracefulness of the French pistols. I have always admired the British Dragoon pistol shape and look, though in comparing these two, the British seems so much heavier and stocky.
 
How much of a hassle was it to build that MBS kit? I’ve been eyeing an English Dragoon kit.

-Jake
 

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