Favorite Black powder firearm- What is it?

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Navy Arms early production repo 1863 Remington Zuoave,1968 vintage, 58 cal, bought new, this is the best shooter of several ML guns I have owned, 45, 50 and 54.
Load; 58 cal Lyman 505g Hollow base Mini, pure lead, base filled with modeling clay, 75 & 80gr FFF for general shooting.
 
Armorer 101 said:
Navy Arms early production repo 1863 Remington Zuoave,1968 vintage, 58 cal, bought new, this is the best shooter of several ML guns I have owned, 45, 50 and 54.
Load; 58 cal Lyman 505g Hollow base Mini, pure lead, base filled with modeling clay, 75 & 80gr FFF for general shooting.
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That would be an Antonio Zoli. Very good guns.
 
And that would be a "holieo molieo" !!!! That Hawgie is a regular encyclopedia of stuff!!!!

Awesome . . .

Mike
 
Zoli… Yep, I used Navy Arms, figured folks would know that name rather than Zoli They make some very nice firearms indeed. I also own a Dakota Sport, which is actually a Zoli Ambassador, with a small difference, nice O/U gun. :)
 
hawg said:
This is the gun that started it all for me. It's a Rigarmi 58 Remington I bought brand new in 1969 when I was 12. I probably put it through more hell than any original went through during the war. It was already rough looking so I defarbed it and aged it to look more like an original I once had.

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@hawg, what was your process to defarb and age that?
 
hrt4me said:
@hawg, what was your process to defarb and age that?
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A file to take the lettering off the barrel. I had to resort to a Dremel with a sanding drum to take them off the frame. Coated it with a mix of salt and vinegar to rust it up. It looks really nasty when it develops rust but it's only scale. I thought I had ruined it and I carded it off too early. I coated it three times to get that look. You have to be careful filing on the barrel flats or you will have a wide spot where you filed. If the lettering is stamped deep you may have to use a small grinding stone on a Dremel but if you use that you will have a deep spot where you used it. I was fortunate, mine wasn't stamped deep.
 
woodnbow said:
Ummm you missed the target! As nice as that pistol is it’s not really worth keeping around and I can darn near feel your disappointment from here! I’m a generous guy. I’ll trade you one that has hit targets and take that one off your hands. ;);)
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I got the Pedersoli Charles Moore from a friend who had made state champion with it many times. All he asked me is to compete at least once. That Charles Moore is just set up right and helped me also to get a few trophies, but I still prefer the Bondini. I have the perfect mould for the Bondini and used airgun pellets from my old gun club's pellet trap as the economy solution with Swiss black powder.
 
Twocanary said:
1800 Baker rifle. Wanted one so bad, ordered a Rifle Shoppe kit. Took me 8 months to finish. Drilling the correct angled holes into the lock and tang were white knuckle nerve wracking experiences. TRS cut all the dovetails, soldered the bayonet lug and built the lock for me. I also really like civil war carbines but thats a broad brush.
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The Shipping and Handling is very expensive at The Rifle Shoppe.
 
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