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snidervolley

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.82 dragoon
« on: December 12, 2014, 10:54:05 PM »
my .82 cal dragoon project
 test fire 70 grains double f






http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg578/snidervolley/IMG_2814_zpsd9d1429b.jpg



i used cherry curly and aqua fortess to pull out the curl ( would use english walnut if i could do it over :P

and i like
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Offline bob in the woods

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2014, 12:32:23 AM »
I really like it !  That is my kind of pistol  :)   Nice work .
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2014, 01:02:51 AM »
Is that a HUGE pistol, or just my imagination?
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Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

Offline FALout

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2014, 01:37:54 AM »
That oughta leave a hole in anything you could hit.  Nice looking piece.
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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2014, 02:22:31 AM »
Nice. I love the finnish. Keep up the good work.
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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2014, 02:22:45 AM »
thanks guys its a blast ! built it after trying the dual shoot at a local club with borrowed gun and kit .
ten paces apart turn down range fire at skeet on pole at ten paces ,both miss..... reload with authentic gear first on target usually wins .
 I wanted something that wasn't going to mess around .
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2014, 02:42:56 AM »
good caliber!  and the pistol is easy on the eyes too.  ;)

i'm a whore for bore when it comes to short ones. 

And I thought .75 was going to be big enough!   ;D
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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2014, 04:49:35 AM »
I'd like to see more pics of that one!  It looks like a great handgun...perhaps finished a little too nicely to be H/C.  But I like it a lot.
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snidervolley

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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2014, 05:35:30 AM »




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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2014, 07:25:52 AM »
Wow !!  It's rifled !!!   
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Offline runastav

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2014, 02:05:21 PM »
Very nice :)
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2014, 04:38:34 PM »
Quote from: bob in the woods on December 13, 2014, 07:25:52 AM
Wow !!  It's rifled !!!   

It is for a shooting contest.

But yeah as a smoothie one could drop salt shakers and bottlecaps down that cannon, once the 700+ grain ball supply runs low.  Looks about 8.5 on the gauge reference i use.  A real punkin smasher! 
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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2014, 04:42:33 PM »
bore is big enough to put what ever you like, rolf and runastad have built same caliber beasts would be fun to get them together
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Offline Bob Roller

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2014, 11:48:27 PM »
Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on December 13, 2014, 04:49:35 AM
I'd like to see more pics of that one!  It looks like a great handgun...perhaps finished a little too nicely to be H/C.  But I like it a lot.

Taylor,
Just about anything made today by a top maker is too good to be H/C.
I am thinking of your version of a pistol grip Hawken. Looked to me
like a gun I once owned that said 98 New Bond Street,London.It was an
H^H double rifle in 303 British.

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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2014, 03:35:48 AM »
what is h/c?
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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2014, 03:48:23 AM »
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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2014, 03:49:05 AM »
Quote from: snidervolley on December 14, 2014, 03:35:48 AM
what is h/c?


histerically, er i mean

"historically correct" a/k/a "period correct".

or the grammar and punctuation of the replication world (and fuel for duels and knife-fights).  :P
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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2014, 05:24:48 AM »
hehehehe that was funny
 I do have to say then that my gun is finished with aquafortes a two hundred year old formula for bringing out curl (you brushit on totally clear like water then blanch over flame and walla its like holographic 3d effect ) and then hand rubbed with linseed oil .
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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2014, 12:14:28 PM »
Great pistol!! I saw it on the other muzzelloading site and it was the inspiration for the pistol Runar buildt and the two I'm working on.
Whats the biggest load you've tried in it ? I'm thinking on bout 60grains of powde.

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Offline Dan

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2014, 03:29:03 PM »
Thinking the cherry is better than any walnut would ever be, but that's just me.

Dinosaurs are extinct, but hey, it's a really nice cannon.  Does it have a carriage you're not showing us?  ;D

That thing is the berries, nice job!

On a similar front, a friends 8 bore caplock:



Click on this pic for the video



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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2014, 05:14:55 PM »
that is awesome , do you have a nice side on pic .I have two side by side 8 gauges bp cartridge 15 pd  guns weeeee
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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2014, 06:25:04 PM »

view down the bore slow twist  ,machined a notch in breech plug to aid in ignition (works every time)
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2014, 06:36:02 PM »
You're going to want a tampion for that thing...

keep bats from roosting in it.  ;D
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snidervolley

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2014, 06:52:24 PM »
LOl I was reading and thinking tampion "say what " then read on hehehehe
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Offline Daryl

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Re: .82 dragoon
« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2014, 01:19:29 AM »
NICE for a 9 bore ball (.803") and nice thick patch, in the 9 1/2 bore pistol.  75gr. to 3 drams (82gr. ) sounds about right - for bear protection.
 
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