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Daryl - The cartridge is .50 X 1 1/2", I have a "baby" Howdah pistol in that calibre (posted here somewhere)
It is in Hoyem vol.3, I made cases from .500 BPE with difficulty as the chambers were very tight, probably made for foil cartridges as it is an early pistol
I will check out the auction pistols but way too much for me
TH44
Surprisingly "tiny' cartridges in "width" for the barrel size?
I agree, John - the barrels are very heavy for the ctg. dimension, almost as if it was a cut-down rifle, but the chambering is wrong for a rifle, of course, but, it appears to have been made to the same dimensions as a SxS rifle.
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