I have an old 1960 Stoeger Catalogue with a bunch of Belgian muzzle loading guns, some for the African trade of the 1930's or later, mostly flintlocks. I was fascinated with them as a kid. A Belgian made gun using a lot of original parts has turned up on one of the other websites. 4 balls to the pound and a good solid workaday piece. Never surprises me what turns up around the place. I just acquired a smoothbore in .72 , looks like it is made up from Potzdam parts, all numbered from the same gun, but restocked sometime in the 19th century as a full stock likely as not for the Dutch colonies in South Africa. I had an English version of a pat 42 but Birmingham trade that came from Uno Station which was owned by the Duttons. It was loaded with no 4 shot, a cheap utility gun for around the station, likely for self defence or the odd snake or dingo etc. I used it with success as a kid with patched round ball and shot a lot of rabbits with it, till my late young brother put a charge of Nobels No 69 and blew it apart. He used a piece of string to pull the trigger as he realised he had loaded it wrong in my absence. I still have the lock which I repaired. I got this musket nearly 45 years later to replace it. The original had a rear sight as well.

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