French pistol

[old ugly]

i am looking for ideas for a taller front sight without modifying the barrel. rite now it shoots about a foot high at 15 yards.

it is French made sometime between the late 1820s- 1850s. at sometime in its life someone made the front brass nose cap and covered up the ramrod hole. when i got it the nipple was flopping around in its hole so i re-tapped it with a TOW oversized tap and use and oversize nipple. it is smooth bore marked with a shotgun gauge on the barrel. it fits my 575 patched round balls perfect. it functions well and i will be shooting it lightly.

 

[Colonial Boy]

Make or have made a foresight with a hole in its base to fit over the existing sight, glue on with a glue that is strong enough to hold it but that can be removed easily with a bit of heat.
Nice looking piece

 

[82ndPA]

i am looking for ideas for a taller front sight without modifying the barrel. rite now it shoots about a foot high at 15 yards.

it is French made sometime between the late 1820s- 1850s. at sometime in its life someone made the front brass nose cap and covered up the ramrod hole. when i got it the nipple was flopping around in its hole so i re-tapped it with a TOW oversized tap and use and oversize nipple. it is smooth bore marked with a shotgun gauge on the barrel. it fits my 575 patched round balls perfect. it functions well and i will be shooting it lightly.

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Here's my solution to a similar issue with an original that I didn't want to permanently modify. It's a simple copper pipe clamp with an aluminum blade jb-welded, and offset to clear the ramrod. Works great.

 

[Gtrubicon]

i am looking for ideas for a taller front sight without modifying the barrel. rite now it shoots about a foot high at 15 yards.

it is French made sometime between the late 1820s- 1850s. at sometime in its life someone made the front brass nose cap and covered up the ramrod hole. when i got it the nipple was flopping around in its hole so i re-tapped it with a TOW oversized tap and use and oversize nipple. it is smooth bore marked with a shotgun gauge on the barrel. it fits my 575 patched round balls perfect. it functions well and i will be shooting it lightly.

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I really like your pistol! If it were mine it would be a dedicated critter gitter with #4 shot!

 

[old ugly]

good ideas. thank you
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