Hi
I carry a glock for duty, I shoot an ar for fun and consider my favorite firearm to be the Marlin 39. I do tend to like most things related to shooting and this is an area I have never explored.
Having said that, a co worker was showing me a couple of pistols the other day and when I showed an interest in in an old fashioned percusion muzzlle loader he offered to sell it to me for 90 and I bought it. The looks like like it has never been fired and I figured its worth 90 even as a display piece,
The pistol appears to be a "kentucky" type, it has a 10' octagnal barrel, black with the brass sights set in dove tail mounts. ( The rear sight is slightly loose )
It has a percussion lock that appears to be color case hardened on one side with decorative dimples around the plate, and a plane brass plate on the other side. Please forgive me if I am getting the terminology wrong here.
The pistol is marked Made in italy, cal .44 with Pedersoli in tiny print over the letters DAV set inside something that looks like a W with extended arms on it
on the side it is marked xxvi ( the i is faint so not sure if thats a i or just part of the stamp ) I think this is some sort of date code it also has what I think is a proof mark, with PN below it.
What I would like to find out is, well everything about it.
What do I have? What do I need to shoot it? ?
How do I properly operate and maintain this?
What do I need to shoot this and where can I find it?
I have been doing some research, and from a search on here I think what I have is an older pedersoli "kentucky" pistol that should be fired with .430 round balls and .20 patch and around 18grains of a black powder or bp sub.
I am going to try to attatch a couple of pics
Thanks for any information on this.
I carry a glock for duty, I shoot an ar for fun and consider my favorite firearm to be the Marlin 39. I do tend to like most things related to shooting and this is an area I have never explored.
Having said that, a co worker was showing me a couple of pistols the other day and when I showed an interest in in an old fashioned percusion muzzlle loader he offered to sell it to me for 90 and I bought it. The looks like like it has never been fired and I figured its worth 90 even as a display piece,
The pistol appears to be a "kentucky" type, it has a 10' octagnal barrel, black with the brass sights set in dove tail mounts. ( The rear sight is slightly loose )
It has a percussion lock that appears to be color case hardened on one side with decorative dimples around the plate, and a plane brass plate on the other side. Please forgive me if I am getting the terminology wrong here.
The pistol is marked Made in italy, cal .44 with Pedersoli in tiny print over the letters DAV set inside something that looks like a W with extended arms on it
on the side it is marked xxvi ( the i is faint so not sure if thats a i or just part of the stamp ) I think this is some sort of date code it also has what I think is a proof mark, with PN below it.
What I would like to find out is, well everything about it.
What do I have? What do I need to shoot it? ?
How do I properly operate and maintain this?
What do I need to shoot this and where can I find it?
I have been doing some research, and from a search on here I think what I have is an older pedersoli "kentucky" pistol that should be fired with .430 round balls and .20 patch and around 18grains of a black powder or bp sub.
I am going to try to attatch a couple of pics
Thanks for any information on this.
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