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home built 8 bore pistol
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its what i wanted so i made one an 8 bore dragoon pistol
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I guess there are pistols and then there are pistols...And your pistol belong to the last catagory. Thatīs a very nice and very well made gun. I solute your works!!.
What powdercharge do you stuff down the barrel??.
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Re: home built 8 bore pistol
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80 grains double ff
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Ash
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(.400 member)
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16/01/15 03:47 PM
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Re: home built 8 bore pistol
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Beautiful work!
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And, if the bore fouls, ya just reach in there and scrape it out with your fingernails!
Doug
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DarylS
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(.700 member)
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17/01/15 02:27 AM
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Re: home built 8 bore pistol
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Quote:
And, if the bore fouls, ya just reach in there and scrape it out with your fingernails!
Doug
LOL
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tinker
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(.416 member)
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17/01/15 01:41 PM
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Re: home built 8 bore pistol
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Nice!
Have you shot it much?
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DarylS
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(.700 member)
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17/01/15 03:54 PM
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Re: home built 8 bore pistol
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That would be a fun pistol with buck and ball loads. They really worked well in my .54.
In the 8 bore - well, surprise, surprise.
In the rifled gun, they usually do as well as a smoothbore - so effective range will be out to 20 yards or so.
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I built it after trying the dueling event at rondevue you stand back to back walk ten paces apart from each other turn and both fire down range at skeet on a pole , if your skeet is hit your dead and out , if neither skeet is hit that's when your heart starts realy racing . fun but alas it took me two years to complete and when done they had stopped the dueling event . just heard two days ago that another close by group has the dueling event.
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DarylS
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(.700 member)
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18/01/15 06:19 AM
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Re: home built 8 bore pistol
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That sounds like fun - using handguns.
At rendezvous in North America, I've read that most 'duels' happened with rifles or smoothbores, shot or ball- whatever was handy and oft times ended up with skinning knives, walking on each others guts.
So - here in Northern BC, at rendezvous, we had a dueling event years ago- in the 80's. We had a truck rim with a 6' vertical pole concreted into it. On the pole was a rotating collar with 2 welded arms running out opposite each other. At the ends of each arms was welded an 8" steel disk. Running straight back from the collar top the rear was another steel arm with a loop at it's end. Attached to the loop was a standard tie-down rubber bungie cord. When one plate was hit, the arms would swing and the slower shooter would miss as his 'target' disappeared from his sight picture -seemingly instantly.
Shooters stand facing their opponent (disk), rifle at arms rest, butt stock under the arm as in forward carry - lock at 1/2 bent (1/2 cock). At the signal, raise and fire. Hitting his 'disk' swung your 'disk' out of of his line of sight - he lost. Draw straws for the duel. It will end up in a final duel and is a really good spectator's event as well- usually shot on the last day, Sunday afternoon as an in-camp shoot. 50 meters range.
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