[HD] Exhibit Insight, Replica English Dueling Pistols

[MrJapaneseboy1111]

do they shot?

[LordVilhelm]

I just realized i have almost exactly the same replica exept mine has the wide mouth barrel which i'm working on to change right now.

[rocksock00444]

i didnt think a blunderbuss would be used in pistol form since its kick its like a shotgun

[AverageJoeCinema]

how often do the ramrods come out? im looking for movie props here.

[Michaelrulesos]

lol at 0:17 "blunder bluss"

[ManTheCapstan]

Yeah, I don't have the heart to go back and reshoot it. ; )

[Graphic36]

I wouldn't consider myself a "gun person" by any means but I'd love to have some dueling pistols, they're really beautiful. I could also go for a genuine old-west era single action revolver :)

[hugetird]

oh and what do u mean by upperclass

[ManTheCapstan]

Those people who could afford percussion technology, i.e. nobility, aristocracy, etcetera.

[hugetird]

correct me if im wrong but didnt they use flintlock more than percussion caps because they were easier and cheaper to make

[ManTheCapstan]

Can't argue with you there. There was a lot of labour involved in manufacturing the caps for percussion firearms. Cheaper and easier is right, as far as flintlocks are concerned.

I would say you'd see more of it in the upper-class, for certain.

[hugetird]

cool its just that my uncle has 1 and he doesnt know that much but i love history and all those 18teenth century weapons but i just wanted to be sure on that thanks

[LutzDerLurch]

Allow me to disagree. Percussion caps in large-scale production were not too complicated to make. You even saved yourself from supplying the knapped flints, flintlocks require. And whilst a percussion lock only need to hit the piston hard, a flintlock requires precise fine tuning between the two springs of it and precise geometry of th parts. Also you had to harden the Steel correctly.

[LutzDerLurch]

They were far more complicated and difficult to produce than percussion locks. also loading a percussion muzzleloader takes longer than a flintlock.