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Here we can talk about our Borchardts, our S&W Schofield revolvers, our Adams revolvers, our Bulldogs, etc.

This is the best place to talk about restoration, the pros and cons of, the replacement or fabrication of parts, bluing, browning, barrel making, etc.

No weapons forum is complete without discussion of reloading ammunition.  In some cases we make our own cartridges from scratch, in others we reload simply because it is much cheaper than paying someone else to do it.  Sometimes we just do it because it is fun and because the ammunition you can make at home is often much more effective than the cartridges you buy.  Here, all aspects of reloading can be discussed, from swaging to primers, from automated presses to hand presses, from fast powders to slow powders. Caveat: I accept no liability for things discussed here.  We are talking about working with explosive propellants and of course one should follow all safety protocols, not use unsafe loads, and have done some basic research before commencing to make their own ammunition.  

Shotguns crawled away from fowling pieces when the cartridge emerged.  Were there muzzle loading shotguns?  Yes, but they weren't that different than the fowling guns of yore.  It was the cartridge, a shotshell, that allowed the shotgun to move from a purely hunting weapon to an all around defensive weapon suitable for hunting too.  Here is where we can talk about that old double barreled 10 gauge coach gun, or your Winchester 1887 lever gun or your 1897 pump gun, your Fox double, etc.

Although obsolete once the automatic pistol arrived, many older revolver types with underpowered cartridges continued to be made for self defense and military purposes un some cases up to the beginning of World War II.  Examples would include such things as the Nagent, the Webley revolvers, the Bankers Special, etc.  Likewise as the 19th century ended the world became flooded with new designs of semi automatic pistols, many of which did not survive World War II.  The Astra, the Mauser Broomhandle, the Lugers, the Little Tom, the Jo-Lar and 100 others.   This is the best place to discus those guns.

Here is the place to discuss a flintlock rifle such as the Kentucky rifle or a musket such as the Brown Bess or that old Hudson Valley Fowling piece.

Use this forum to discuss any pistol with a percussion ignition system, regardless of whether the system is tape, tube or cap.  It can be a single shot Harpers Ferry pistol, an early derringer, a civil war revolver, whatever.  

Use this forum to discuss or ask questions about any cartridge rifle (or carbine) made or introduced before 1898.  This will include (but not be limited to) Trapdoor rifles, Martini rifles, Henry repeaters, Winchesters, rolling blocks, early double rifles, drillings, rook rifles, Peabody or Sharps, etc.