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bannockburn said:
forward observer

Another museum quality display! Do you do this kind of thing for a living or is this just something you have an extremely talented knack for? And where did you get that awesome looking Bowie knife?
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Thanks for the kind words, but the displays are just the result of a melding two of my hobbies--that of collecting junk I like and photography. I really got into it after retiring from full-time work at the end of 2007. I've always collected dibs and dabs of historical paraphernalia to go along with my various firearms and have been at it for about 50 years now.

As to the Bowie knife, I was collecting them for a while and spotted that one on Amazon, of all places. It was made in Pakistan and was on closeout, so I got it with a matching scabbard for $25 delivered. Here it is with most of the rest of my oversized Bowies which reside in my living room display coffee table.
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doubleh said:
Here is a derringer. A long, long ago CVA kit build and incidentally the last checkering I ever did. It's never been fired.

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I found mine. Took me about 20 minutes of searching, but found it. I’ve had this one for 20 years and have never fired it. It doesn’t look like the previous owner ever fired it either.
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GunnyUSMC said:
Here’s another one of my black powder handguns.
I picked this one up at a pawn shops for $60 a few years back.
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I have one of those also. It was the first black powder firearm I ever built just to see if I wanted to mess with blackpowder. It's been shot a lot but not recently. That gun led me to build several rifles from kits and someone always wanted them bad enough I would sell them and build another. I finally decided to keep one for myself, a T/C Hawkin that had a nicely figuered stock and since then I have built a CVA Mountain rifle and a Lyman Plains Rifle. I have also gathered (quite sometime ago) up the components for another rifle. Got a Douglas premium 45 caliber 1 in 66" twist barrel, a fancy tiger maple stock blank, and a T/C lock & trigger. Maybe this summer when it's really hot and I want to stay under the airconditioner I'll do something to it.
 
Posted at some time in the past in the black powder subforum. An Allen & Thurber pepperbox six shot .31 cal smoothbore. The pepperboxes were favored by many of the potential prospectors who headed to California after the discovery of gold on the American River at Sutter's sawmill in 1849. They were popular because they were inexpensive compared to any of the Colt's revolvers at the time. Of course, hitting something reliably further out than across a table was another matter altogether.

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forward observer

Nice pepperbox and push dagger! Just the things for a prospector starting out in the gold fields!
 
IMG_1776.jpg This is already in the less trafficked Review Private Transactions forum , but it is Sunday morning , the churches are closed , and some of us have time on our hands , so ...

These two seemingly unrelated handguns just came back to me from a gunsmith. The upper is one of my regular J frame carries , the lower clearly has no practical application other than making me happy.
 
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