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Wouldn't the M1836 require a few extra grains of powder to prime the pan or did the trooper carry a priming powder flask or horn for that?

Thank you Captain Obvious for your non sequitur post trying to dispute a point I never attempted to make. In the same vein let me state that all of my pairs of socks will amazingly fit either foot. So you somehow obtained a toy cannon that could be shot with a firecracker without it blowing...

I didn't mean to imply that those at Gettysburg gift shop were exactly the same. I just meant that they are quite common and have the same common construction, i.e., a brass barrel made from a turned brass rod with no trunnions fastened to a cast iron carriage with a smaller brass rod pressed...

Evidently, nobody here has ever visited the gift shop at any major national civil war or revolutionary war battle field. That cannon type is like those typically sold in the bookstore/gift shop at various national battlefields purely as decorative souvenirs. They are sold in two or three sizes...

There was a Pietta LeMat that sold in a Poulin Auction today. It appeared to be in excellent condition and came in a plain generic glass-topped display case. It went for $1000 plus a 25% buyer's premium so that was $1250 total plus shipping. I used to want one but having read some of the...

The barrel is 2 and 7/16 inches long not including the tang. It's hard to measure the bore because it has an odd number (7) of lands and grooves so there is always a groove opposite a land. However, the set came with 7 cast balls hidden in a compartment under the bullet mold. It's claimed...

Here are two more of the US Historical releases--only from the 1980s. This is a pair of Deringers copied after the Lincoln/Booth assassination pistol presently displayed at Ford's theater in DC. The set is housed in a leather-covered case meant to look like a fine leather-covered book. The...

I guess one could call these rare. Both commemorative releases were first offered in 1976 during our Bicentennial with only 975 of each made. Both sets will be a half a century old in two years. They were way overpriced when they were first offered, around $3000 for a cased pair, by the US...

Two more favorite carbines--both model 94's made over 70 years apart. On top is a classic pre-Olin ownership model 94 carbine made in 1915. I found this in a pawn shop back some time between 1985 and 1990. I'd always hit the pawn shops after deer season was over since one never knew what...

Here's my present favorite carbine. It's a 5th model Burnside with a serial number among a group issued to a Yankee Texas cavalry regiment. I bet it's the only carbine posted that shoots ice creme cone shaped cartridges. Cheers

Yes, the owner did announce some other off beat and crazy projects most of which never materialized. However, the salient point is that they totally suspended their SAA's and any associated production in favor of this stupid ill-designed plastic 22 monstrosity. The owner sold off the tooling...

USFA did not go broke making SAA's and percussion revolvers. They went broke because the owner Doug Donnelly who was a bit of a kook came up with a God-awful plastic .22 cal semiautomatic pistol call the USFA Zip and used all of the company's resources trying promote and manufacture it at the...

I've read that those sword bayonets were generally disliked by the troops they were issued to. A typical triangular ACW bayonet weighed only 13 to 15 ounces while the sword types with their heavy solid brass handle weighed well over two pounds. Consequently, they were inordinately heavy plus...

His name is Domicik Carpenter. He used to have a website and offered quite a few different black powder cannon models from the 18th and 19th century up to some decent replicas of WW I type French 75mm in small to medium scales. He eventually cut his business way back and shut down his...

I had read somewhere that Crockett was presented with a fancy caplock by a group of admirers from a political party sometime before leaving for Texas but that he left it behind since he worried that percussion caps might be hard to obtain on the Texas frontier. The article linked below is not...

Yeah, he needs to hook up with Rock Island or Dan Morphy's--both sell some high dollar items and the bidders seem to have deep pockets--especially Rock Island. I see where RIA is opening a new auction facility in Texas. They had to abandon Illinois sooner or later due all the restrictions...

I voted other because my state--Arkansas usually ranks 2nd to 4th for the laxest gun laws in the nation by either Giffords or Everytown. That translates to 2nd to 4th best. How could you leave us off your list? It's right behind our rating for the number of people married to their own...

I finally got around to taking a picture of the bore using a fishing light lure to light it up. I took this with my phone so it's not a high resolution but you can still see how shiny it is. In fact, when I first looked down the bore I thought it was relined but I can see no signs of that at...

When I retired and downsized, I sold a shop full of power tools--mostly wood working stuff like a table saw, router table, joiner planer, and a band saw. I lived in a townhouse for a few years with no garage at all. Now, I have a garage again but haven't started collecting anything major in...

I actually have a Euroarms replica but it's a little too nice to use. Also Unfortunately, the barrels on the Euroarms models are a bit oversized compared to an original so the channel in the stock is already too large. It's a known issue with those models because most of the reproduction...