Recent content by DutchmanDick

I have a Pietta 1860 Army replica I bought from Navy Arms years ago. I recently fitted it with a 3" snub-nose barrel and a (non-engraved) R&D conversion cylinder from Taylors & Co.. The cylinder indexes and locks up perfectly, with no modifications to any part of the gun. I have not had a chance...

Hi! Been a while since I was on the forum last. I am building myself an AR (while I still can...). Parts have gotten scarce and often expensive (lots of people of a like mind to myself - "get it while you still can" :fire:). Right now I am concentrating on getting the hardest-to-find stuff first...

Don't discount the rimfire or pinfire guns, if you're willing to fiddle around with reloading. Reloadable rimfire cases that use .22 acorn blanks for primers, and reloading kits, are available from: http://www.hc-collection.com/ I have a S&W #2 that was made in 1864 that I got for under...

Here's a link to the report done on the one musket that is known to have blown up, and which seems to have started the whole flap about India-made guns being "pipe bombs": http://www.middlesexvillagetrading.com/special/HPWhiteReportWithPersonalInfoBlocked.pdf

I have two of the India-made guns from Middlesex Village, a steel-barrelled blunderbuss (not the doglock, unfortunately, but alas, they were out of stock for a while), and the double-barrelled percussion howdah pistol. I haven't had a chance to shoot the blunderbuss yet - I'm awaiting the...

Anybody who owns a 20 gauge Pedersoli or Middlesex howdah pistol - have you chronographed your guns using .600 ball loads? If so, what powder loading did you use? I'm trying to find out what sort of m/v I can expect with a 350 grain .600 ball and 60 grains FFg from a 7-1/2" barrel, and I don't...

I have a book about classic firearms, by Stoeger Publications. One of the chapters featured a breechloading howdah by Rodda of Calcutta and London, chambered in the .577 Snider rifle round. Taylor knockdown index placed it at just slightly under a .44 magnum. Also, Firearms of the American...

No, this was before conversion cylinders were commercially available. The only ones I know of that existed at the time I bought it were the custom Gren conversions, which completely altered the gun.

I bought one of these with a well-worn finish at a gun show about 20 years ago for $50. Shot it a few times, and it cracked between the part of the frame the cylinder pin screws into and the cylinder hand slot. Totally ruined. I probably got one of the ones with QC problems. Traded it to a...

Not a Spiller and Burr (no matter what the auction description might say), but a Whitney navy, which the S&B is a brass-framed copy of. For one thing, besides the fact that ALL S&B revolvers have brass frames, none has barrel threads showing. This was supposedly done in the originals to keep the...

This was on 9 & 10 News tonight. The sheriff and prosecutor both said that no charges would be filed against the homeowner, that he was doubly justified in shooting the burglar (both in defending his home from an intruder, and in shooting a fleeing felon while making a "citizen's arrest"), that...

I share custody of my two kids with my ex. I do not keep loaded guns in the house when they're here. Instead, I keep a wakizashi and a long-bladed traditional tanto by the bed. Not the best weapons for home defense, true, but better than nothing. I have been teaching my kids not to touch my guns...

Might be a GREAT way to discourage tailgaters, though...:evil:

Agreed on the lifting of gun laws causing crime to go down, though since the thugs have had their way for so long it might take a few years for them to get the message. As for the museums closing, I don't see it happening any time soon. The oldest ones - the Field Museum and the Museum of...

I believed I mentioned a muzzleloader would not be the best choice. But since in many places they are not as heavily regulated as "modern" firearms, I thought it MIGHT be a way to avoid all the idiotic paperwork, permits, fees, and laws that plague differrent places. As I said, ANY gun is better...