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This is an original gun from mid 19th century, smooth bore and no sights. At 20 meters almost all balls have punched the paper. Load is light due to the age : 40 grs BP, 100grs cormeal and ball 75 without patch (no room for it). Recoil is not very regular due to poor ball quality...

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and now, shooting the red cal.54 pistol at 25m : A lot of fun............

It is a cal.69 and probably a Spanish replica made circa 1970. It can shoot but at close range only...........

Some of these pistols have been tested at the range, see : http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=724011 http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=726758 http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=726462 http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=723175...

Here are some replica : Some are common and other are less usual...... All are in shooting order - firenze pistol cal50 and cal54, smoothbore - harper's ferry cal58 rifled - william moore cal45 rifled - queen ann cal50 smooth - engraved harper's ferry cal58 rifled - kentucky cal54 rifled...

PICS of a pair ; the blond one is cal.50 and the red one is cal.54 : Ever reach the USA ? regards

here is some shooting at 25 meters with my pistol (has been polished) : But here is an engraved model :

There are no sight but the barrel is round like a pipe and the idea is to align both ends of the barrel with the muzzle being only slightly visible (like a rising sun) on top of the tang. I have also tried to shoot duelist at 25 meters : 14 balls out of 15 punched the paper...

This is a ASM italian replica. A lot of work was necessary to get it shooting. After a lot of effort here is the result 2 handhold at 25 meters, aiming one meter below the paper ; 40grs BP, cornmeal and patched cal.65 ball. Out of 19 balls, 17 are in the paper A lot of...

This is a Pedersoli smoothbore pistol, . After a lot of tests and shooting at 8m and 15 meters, I was able to shoot at 25m 35grs BP, cornmeal and patched cal.65 ball 2 hands hold 20 balls out of 25 punched the paper The Napoleon saga !!! Another similar pistol was in...

This is another one also made by "PR" : The pistol is from a pair and a number "1" is on the tang. That's a nicely shaped .45 bullet too. Did you cast it? If so, please give the source for the mould. Bullets are REAL cal45

Hello, this is an Italian replica manufactured in 1972 by "PR" A lot of work was necessary to get it functional but now it shoots : 20 bullets shot at 25meters, duelist. 18 out of 20 are within the black zone. Very uncommon pistol, fully engraved with rifled barrel. regards

Back to the range with checkered grips : Light load and REAL at 25 meters : A pleasure to shoot... regards

Back to the range with a small bone inlay in the grip : still very accurate at 25 meters regards

The pistol has gone to the range again but before the cock geometry has been modified because the angle was not correct and flints were perpendicular to the frizzen. I have heated the cocks and bent them downwards. I have started shooting at 8meters and then 15 meters and finally at 25 meters...

There is one but it is very crude and I prefered to get rid of it, and have standard but smoothened trigger set Paolo Bondini manufactured many pistols before being transfered into Armisport around 1980.

here is the topic on tigerstripe : http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=708533

this is the leaflet of the Belgian manufacturer "RAICK brothers" 3 versions were proposed at the time : -none engraving and brass furniture - partially engraved with silvered furniture (the one of this topic) - fully engraved and gold furniture Maybe some arrived in the USA ...

This is a Belgian replica manufactured circa 1970, a few years before the closing of Belgian replica era. Ironically it is copied from an Italian original pistol that was in Liege (Belgium) museum. This Italian pistol was typical production of a town named "Firenze" (hence the name in...