Went to the West Leb gun show
Last weekend Paulie and I packed up a bunch of stuff and went to the West Lebanon gun show. it was a pretty slow show. We didn't sell much, but we did a lot of horse trading. And of course,a lot of talking...
He came home with a big brass blunderbuss with at least a 1" bore. It appears to have been built using a Pedersoli Bess lock that has had the markings ground off. All of the furniture seems to have been cast at somebody's backyard foundry and the barrel is like nothing we've ever seen. It will take a bit of tweaking to get it working, but once it is done it will really be a one-of-a-kind piece.
As for me, I came home with an assortment of pistols and a Long Branch (Canada) Enfield #4 Mk1 dated 1942. Here is a pic of the pistols. From the upper right, you are looking at an 1895 Nagant revolver, built in 1926, marked CCCP. Continuing clockwise, the next one is a Belgian Bulldog pocket pistol in .32 S&W (notice the quarter in front of it for a size reference, the thing is tiny!). My gusee is that it from the last quarter of the 19th century. Of the same vintage is the next one, a British Bulldog, also in .32 S&W. This one has had it's hammer bobbed to make it easier to pull out of your pocket in a pinch. Finally, on the upper left, a CZ-52, a Czech cold war era military pistol. This one fires the Soviet bloc 7.62/25 round, an oddly shaped pistol round that is similar to a 9mm at the back but is necked down to use a smaller (therefore faster) projectile.
Now I'm shopping for a 1903 or a 1903a3 Springfield. Pete Knight has one of the new rifle display racks complete and the other mostly done. Visitors will have a better laid out collection to look at and examine. This coming week, Jeff will probably be building shelves to display the rest of our helmet collection. This place is slowly but surely turning into a museum!
He came home with a big brass blunderbuss with at least a 1" bore. It appears to have been built using a Pedersoli Bess lock that has had the markings ground off. All of the furniture seems to have been cast at somebody's backyard foundry and the barrel is like nothing we've ever seen. It will take a bit of tweaking to get it working, but once it is done it will really be a one-of-a-kind piece.
As for me, I came home with an assortment of pistols and a Long Branch (Canada) Enfield #4 Mk1 dated 1942. Here is a pic of the pistols. From the upper right, you are looking at an 1895 Nagant revolver, built in 1926, marked CCCP. Continuing clockwise, the next one is a Belgian Bulldog pocket pistol in .32 S&W (notice the quarter in front of it for a size reference, the thing is tiny!). My gusee is that it from the last quarter of the 19th century. Of the same vintage is the next one, a British Bulldog, also in .32 S&W. This one has had it's hammer bobbed to make it easier to pull out of your pocket in a pinch. Finally, on the upper left, a CZ-52, a Czech cold war era military pistol. This one fires the Soviet bloc 7.62/25 round, an oddly shaped pistol round that is similar to a 9mm at the back but is necked down to use a smaller (therefore faster) projectile.
Now I'm shopping for a 1903 or a 1903a3 Springfield. Pete Knight has one of the new rifle display racks complete and the other mostly done. Visitors will have a better laid out collection to look at and examine. This coming week, Jeff will probably be building shelves to display the rest of our helmet collection. This place is slowly but surely turning into a museum!
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