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Here's a little big gun for you. It's an accurate 1/3rd scale functional model of an 1861 10 pdr. Parrott rifle. This model is a smoothbore though. The barrel is cast iron with a seamless steel 1 in. bore liner You can see some of my other black powder cannons in the background. They are all over my house and I can't walk through the place without tripping over one. The original full size 1861 Parrott had a 2.9-inch bore, so its 1 in. barrel is not quite to 1/3 scale. However, the 1861 Parrotts were eventually replaced by the model 1863 Parrott, which had a 3-inch bore. This allowed them to use the same ammunition as the more popular 3-inch ordinance rifle. This model was hand made by a gentleman from Washington state who competed with it in small scale cannon matches. I got it from his son who inherited it after his father passed away.

As soon as the weather is good, a friend who has a place with some appropriate land said I could
bring it out to shoot.
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Here it is with one of my two 1/9 th scale IX inch Dalhgrens
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Cheers
 
Here is a 50 caliber mountain pistol I built from a CVA kit. I bought it and then decided I didn't have time to build right then. It sat and sat and then sat some more for years until I dug it out and put it together. You get a big boom, a big cloud of smoke, ans a pretty good whop went you fire this thing.

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This one sat in a box quite a bit longer than the one posted above. It's another CVA kit and I finally put it together a few winters ago. I embellished the stock a bit. Made some pin estuchions, did some carving on the bottom and sides of the stock, and added some wire inlay. I've never shot it and probably never will.

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Edited to add: Sorry for the crappy picture. It looks good on my computer but it's not much here. I have no idea why.
 
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Speaking of scale models, here's a rough-and-dirty pic I took for my own records. A stripped, regular 1911 with the corresponding parts from a Model (1, 2, or 3, I can't keep them straight) Llama .380 with the locked breech.

That Llama is just about an exact 5/8 scale model of the 1911 with some minor differeces, like the ventilated sight rib on the Llama and the clever adjustable rear sight. The 1911 has Crimson Trace grips on it.

People who see this pic (or the actual gun) are intrigued by it. I carried that Llama in my car for years, and it has also seen a lot of miles in my (shhhh, don't tell anybody) cab when I drove for a local cab company. It even got lost in my plane luggage and ended up in Boston once. (This was long before guns got to be EEEK GU-UHNS OH THE HORROR !)

The left grip got cracked somehow and its replacement wasn't quite right and left part of the safety plunger tube exposed. Oh, well, it still shoots.

I bought it NIB in about 1968 or so.

I s'pose one of these days I'll do another strip-down and better photo of the parts comparison in a more publication-worthy manner.

Terry, 230RN

Edited to correct "rube" to "tube."
 

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Here's a little big gun for you. It's an accurate 1/3rd scale functional model of an 1861 10 pdr. Parrott rifle. This model is a smoothbore though. The barrel is cast iron with a seamless steel 1 in. bore liner You can see some of my other black powder cannons in the background. They are all over my house and I can't walk through the place without tripping over one. The original full size 1861 Parrott had a 2.9-inch bore, so its 1 in. barrel is not quite to 1/3 scale. However, the 1861 Parrotts were eventually replaced by the model 1863 Parrott, which had a 3-inch bore. This allowed them to use the same ammunition as the more popular 3-inch ordinance rifle. This model was hand made by a gentleman from Washington state who competed with it in small scale cannon matches. I got it from his son who inherited it after his father passed away.

As soon as the weather is good, a friend who has a place with some appropriate land said I could
bring it out to shoot.

I have wanted to build something along the lines of each of those only somewhat smaller and have the tools to do so but have lost the will to put them to work on a project of this size. Probably an age related thing.
 
Here’s my Last Ditch Type 99 Arisaka.
I traded some stock work for it, from an old friend, years ago. Butch told me that his father had picked it up after a battle, during the Island Hopping campaign, and sent it home with the bayonet. He said that there was a scabbard for the bayonet, but it got lost years ago. This is one of my rifles I will never sale. About two years after we made the trade for the rifle and work, Butch had a lung transplant and his body rejected it. I miss that crusty old fart.
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I see your Walther P1s and raise you a Manurhin P1, at one time in service with the West Berlin Police Force.
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@kidneyboy, nice collection; what is the little rifle in the blue stock below? I had a Remington 40XC .308 Win. in that style stock which was marvelous match rifle for XTC competition, it was very accurate and worked well in all positions, but was an especially good offhand stock. Then picked up a 40XR, which was also a mod. 700 Rem.
action, but in .22 RF. Same weight/feel as the .308. Both great rifles.

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@kidneyboy, nice collection; what is the little rifle in the blue stock below? I had a Remington 40XC .308 Win. in that style stock which was marvelous match rifle for XTC competition, it was very accurate and worked well in all positions, but was an especially good offhand stock. Then picked up a 40XR, which was also a mod. 700 Rem.
action, but in .22 RF. Same weight/feel as the .308. Both great rifles.

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hps
Thats a Marlin 2000 also known as a Marlin Biathlon. This is an early one with the match chamber, very accurate and loads of fun to shoot.
 
Here's a little big gun for you. It's an accurate 1/3rd scale functional model of an 1861 10 pdr. Parrott rifle. This model is a smoothbore though. The barrel is cast iron with a seamless steel 1 in. bore liner You can see some of my other black powder cannons in the background. They are all over my house and I can't walk through the place without tripping over one. The original full size 1861 Parrott had a 2.9-inch bore, so its 1 in. barrel is not quite to 1/3 scale. However, the 1861 Parrotts were eventually replaced by the model 1863 Parrott, which had a 3-inch bore. This allowed them to use the same ammunition as the more popular 3-inch ordinance rifle. This model was hand made by a gentleman from Washington state who competed with it in small scale cannon matches. I got it from his son who inherited it after his father passed away.

As soon as the weather is good, a friend who has a place with some appropriate land said I could
bring it out to shoot.
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Here it is with one of my two 1/9 th scale IX inch Dalhgrens
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Cheers
My great-great-grandfather was a gunner on an 1863 Parrott. That's a neat scale cannon.
 
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