Lets see some flintlock pistols!

[toot]

Years ago I made a powder horn for a man that made beautiful flintlock guns. He must have seen something in me that I didn't know I had and sent me a block of wood, a barrel, and a lock that didn't work too good, with the admonition, just make the #$%^ D&#% thing right. I bought a trigger guard and fabricated the rest. I had no idea what I was doing and still don't know where this might fit in any historical era, if at all. I still get get a kick out of making guns and hopefully have gotten a little better at it. Thank you Tom for all the joy I have experienced in 'Americas first art form'.
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In this state, if you have the components to load a black powder hand gun in your home you have to register it on your pistol permit. I engraved No. 1 on it for a serial number.
Robby

very nice!

 

[toot]

Made this for Dad, in the last year of his life. Made the lock (not so well) from a kit of castings, started w a 9" octagon bbl "turned" it round, slightly tapered & swamped, with my file. Really don't care for machinery. To save $$, the silver inlays are two-piece, a thinner silver one soldered to a thicker brass inlay the same shape. The pistol is in a Kuntz style.
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Old Geezer with a file

nice.

 

[toot]

Not as fancy as some, but I always feel this pair meant business.View attachment 99096View attachment 99097View attachment 99098View attachment 99099

you got that right!

 

[toot]

Picked this up in a pawn shop for $75. Japanese repro of a Tower Light Dragoon. Took 3-4 hours to restore View attachment 100040View attachment 100041

you did an outstanding job of restoring it! and at the price. they are fetching north of $200.00 now!

 

[toot]

Picked this up in a pawn shop for $75. Japanese repro of a Tower Light Dragoon. Took 3-4 hours to restore View attachment 100040View attachment 100041

what did you use to clean it up that nice?

 

[toot]

Here are two Japanese tower pistols the first bought at 2nd hand store and the bottom one at a gun show. Note the fine carving and thinning of the bottom guns stock.

I for one rely like them & have 7 of them. they are real heavy clunkers, but they all seem to be real good sparkers., and good shooters. I also have one that is made in KOREA! thanks for showing them.

 

[toot]

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beautiful!!

 

[zimmerstutzen]

12 ga pistol made in Germany, Aluminum lock plate

 

[enfield]

Just about my original vintage H.W.Mortimer & Son in .69 in perfect shooting condition !

 

[Walt For 2A]

Just about my original vintage H.W.Mortimer & Son in .69 in perfect shooting condition !

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Purty!!!!

 

[Walt For 2A]

what did you use to clean it up that nice?

Wire brush on a drill to remove the heavy rust then 000 steel wool

 

[toot]

thank you.

 

[Scoper05]

Hey guys! Just got my first flintlock pistol and I am over the moon. I would LOVE to see everyone else’s!

Well now you're just showing off. LOL

 

[hanshi]

The photo I posted of my one and only is gone for some reason. So with your indulgence here it is again. Basically rather plain and nothing special, but it is accurate and reliable, .50.

 

[hawkeye2]

The photo I posted of my one and only is gone for some reason. So with your indulgence here it is again. Basically rather plain and nothing special, but it is accurate and reliable, .50.

2 out of 3 ain't bad!

 

[Tradbow]

Very nice hanshi

 

[grey8833]

This is (was) a Moroko (Japanese) pistol I got back in 1974. My first black powder gun > it was a typical of the time, pretty poorly done. I decided to do an upgrade project on it - I used the lock (after I remade the broken main spring) and purchased a stock blank that I gussied up. The barrel was a mess - with a very long direct drilled touch hole. So I also drilled out the long (whoosh - wait for it - bang!) touch hole and installed a liner. Shoots nice now (flash/bang) Very accurate.

 

[mhb]

When this thread was active, I couldn't find where I'd hidden this one (from myself!): It's a sort of Continental Officer's pistol, 20 bore, with cherry wood stock and belt clip, by Claude (Pappy) Suffolk, and signed by him. It's one of my favorite shooters, and shoots very well...

mhb - MIke

 

[rickystl]

12 ga pistol made in Germany, Aluminum lock plate

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WOW!! I once owned one of those. Bought it new at Cline's Sporting Goods in a Chicago suburb in 1964. Paid around $35.00 for it as I recall. Shot blanks with it in the back yard. I was 14 then. Cleaned the barrel with an old baby bottle brush and one of those surplus .50 caliber machine gun cleaning rods.
Believe the gun was marked Hy-Hunter.

 

[11th corps]

Pedersoli Harper's Ferry, built from a kit. .58cal

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Fly, it's a beautiful pistol. How does it shoot? I have read both good and not so good reviews of the lock and its geometry.