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Flintlock Pistols?
« on: March 14, 2004, 04:03:59 AM »
Haven't noticed a specific niche for flint pistols in the blackpowder section.  Just wondering if there are enough of us flint shooters to create a Flintlock Pistol area?
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2004, 08:22:04 AM »
Oops... had I read the title of this forum a little more carefully I would have noted that it does indeed include pistols.
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Flintlock Pistols?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2004, 01:58:05 PM »
Evil Dog.. I love flinters very much, whether long or short. I'm pushing 50 now and built my first flint pistol from scratch minus lock and a chunk of old rifle barrel before I was driving a car, long before. Built my first knives at the same time. My Fiance is also building herself a Harpers Ferry, a Queen Anne both pedersolis. She has a le page I am dying to shoot too :-D  I shoot cannon, fusils, percussion, flint, pistols, rifles, transitionals, have 6 cap and ball revolvers which are my choice in cowboy shoots, manufacture knives and am a licensed 07 FFL firearm manufacturer so talk away, I'm here and all ears, sometimes a mouth too. If it uses BP to launch a projectile downrange I'm game. :twisted: Hermit
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Flintlock pistols
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2004, 02:08:59 AM »
Any one know of any repros of the British sea service pistol, circa 1800?
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Building a flint pistol
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2004, 03:47:38 AM »
Hey Hermit.... I've a 50 caliber flint pistol that I have been building on for well over 15 years now.  It started out planned as a half stock percussion Hawken style replica.  It's now in the 4th revision, a full stock Kentucky style with a swamped barrel and all steel furniture.  Swamping a 12" barrel entirely by drawfiling took about 3 months... quite a chore, but I think that it was worth it.  I don't think that there are any of the original parts still in use.  Have been shooting it for well over 5 years now.  Still have to finish inletting the ramrod pipes then sand and finish the stock.  One of those projects that I work on when the mood strikes.  My wife says that it is project number 3,683 and I am currently working on number 17.
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British Sea Service Pistol
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2004, 06:02:09 AM »
Unspellable.... I don't know about their quality, but the price certainly seems reasonable.  http://www.militaryheritage.com/muskets.htm
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« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2004, 11:54:19 AM »
I had a japanese made stainless pistol labeled as a "Tower" Army pistol.  The Canadian sea service pistol you mentioned looks very like it.  Now I'm a bit confused as to which is what.  Perhaps I should have just hung onto the Japanese pistol.
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« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2004, 12:48:28 PM »
You might also take a look at Middlesex Village Trading Company.  Once again, I have no idea as to their quality.... but the prices don't seem all that bad.

http://www.middlesexvillagetrading.com/NEWpistol.shtml
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« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2004, 01:05:41 PM »
Evildog.. I can imagine the work swamping a bbl by hand 8)  That little 36 I did 35years ago was drawfiled half round. I have projects everywhere too. Got 5 ea 50 cal pistol bbls laying around. A couple will be scratch built underhammers in old Maine traditional style, one percussion with the squirel engraved lock at TOTW(Sweetie wants one) and 2 flinters. There is a book "Maine made guns and their makers" pretty interesting. Hermit
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