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    It is a Pedersoli Indian trade gun. U. Well done with a flintlock Under dog Hope this one was flying and not a sitting bird ? Feltwad
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    There is always another way and that is to load black powder supplement called pydrex. this can be measure loaded the same has black powder and can be bought with a shotgun certificate the main fault with this powder is it is very corrosive and must be cleaned as soon has shooting is finished. Feltwad
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    All you need is a Black Powder Certificate from your Constabulary joining a club is only if you have a firearm and wish to use it which will be on a approved range a shotgun can be used for game or clay shooting if you are a club member or not providing you have a S.G.Certificate Feltwad
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    Tom burras What you have been told is not correct you can buy black powder providing you have a SGC or a Firearms Licence for to load black powder cartridges or to use in a percussion or flintlock gun ..You will need a box to keep it in inside a locked cabinet which will have to be passed by your local constabulary ,providing your have no other powder or ammo you are allowed to keep 15 kilos , the average cost for loading your own for a box of 25 is about £5. Feltwad
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    Thank you Feltwad Another type of black powder cartridge the Pinfire
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    Not a very sportsman like manner of a replyFeltwad I don't know how much I care? Seen that sort of shit a few times on here. It wears thin. Thought when I entered this thread that it would have been of sound advice to those that wished to load and shoot black powder cartridges but it seems that it has offended some, that was not my case. Feltwad
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    Not a very sportsman like manner of a reply Feltwad
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    Tradition It is living the past when one pheasant shot with black powder be it with a hammer gun ,percussion muzzle loader or a flintlock is worth 10 shot with a nitro over and under . Feltwad
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    Seems that way black powder shooting both game and clays has so much too offer Feltwad
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    Bird All punt guns were shot from a boat known has a punt and larger than the one in the last image which you refer too this is a 4 bore shoulder fowling gun .There was a larger shoulder gun this was known has a bank gun enclosed is a image of a 2bore flintlock bank gun ,it could be used has a small punt gun which was used on the sand dunes or the sea wall the method was that small fowl feeding along the incoming tide such has knots and such and when within range a charge of shot was discharged into the flock. Feltwad 2bore Flintlock Bank Gun
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    With little interest in this thread is the reason that there are few members interested in black powder game and clay shooting ? Feltwad
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    With Factory made black powder cartridges more difficult to obtain and more so the price loading your own is more cheaper . Items needed are the black powder in medium grade for 12 bore and less cartridges and coarse black powder for larger bores , you will also need 1/8 card wads and also felt wads of 1/2 inch, 1/16 over shot card wads, You can still load black powder cartridges on the original loading tools which consist of a capper de-capper and a rolled turnover tool if you want to use spent shotgun cartridges you will need a resizing tool and some 209 primers plus a hand powder measure
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    Well done were the pigeons sitting or flying ?Ever tried decoying crows or pigeon using a flinter it is always something different Feltwad
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    Both guns would have been loaded depending on the quarry around 3 oz of number 3 or BB shot for geese ,,the powder load in those days for the flintlock would have been 7to9 drms of coarse powder today it would be less the reason been that black powder in those days was not has good has black powder today and it needed a long barrel to burn it .Black powder gains more power has it travels up the barrel not like nitro powder which is spent at eight inches from the breech. It must be remembered that these guns were {Tools Of The Trade} it was a fowlers living when in season the quarry includ
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    Enclosed are a couple of images that may interest members of a early 4 bore flintlock punt gun of the 1760s and a century later a 4 bore breech loader . These guns I restored 10 years ago the flintlock was mostly lock work with little work to the stock, the breech loader centre fire was all new stock work Feltwad A 4 bore Breech Loading Pun Gun A 1760, Flintlock 4 bore Punt Gun
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    Before the hammer gun first became popular in the 1860, there was before a breech loader known has the pin fire . These were only popular for arround 45 plus years when most changed to the centre fire .The pin fire on the continent was made mostly in Belguim until the 1940s most in 16 bore although smaller bore sizes were made Feltwad Pin Fire Cartridges A 12 bor Pin Fire by Askey Of Bedale North Yorkshire
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    Ask away, glad to help.Thanks feltwad. Cheers fella. I was wondering whether you use BP or pyrodex? We shoot cap and ball revolvers at my rifle club and so I get Pyrodex easily enough but was wondering whether it worth the licensing hassle of shooting real BP? I don't recommend pyrodex and it won't work in a flintlock. Pyrodex is way more corrosive than black powder. Black powder is much much better. U. Has underdog said pyrodex is very corrosive and I would not use it .Yes it easy to obtain with a SGC where has black powder you need a black powder certificate and a box for
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    That is a local built gun by Ward Thompson of Stockton -on-Tees and used by my grandfather it is a live pigeon gun with 2.3/4 inch chambers very straight when shouldered making it shoot high when shooting pigeons from a trap ,this was a sport that was banned in the 1920,s Feltwad
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    Has one well known sportsman once said A gun without hammers is like a spaniel with out ears . Yes I load and shoot more black powder than nitro and have done for the past 6 decades Feltwad The Erskine Cartridge Loader Old Black Powder Tins
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    With the change in the keeping and licencing of the gun laws after Hungerford saw a large majority of hammerguns go to the furnace. For keeping them it became law for a gun cabinet which in most cases were more expensive than the gun which resulted in most been handed in to be destroyed, a large number of these were by the provincial gun maker and ironmonger who retailed guns made in Birmingham and with it went the art of the Victorian gun maker and the Damascus barrel .Most of these guns were under lever with half and full cock hammers mostly 30 inch Damascus barrel true cylinder and b
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    Well done .one squirrel with a flintlock is worth five with a nitro gun. Feltwad
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    It must be 40years since I saw waxwings they were eaten hawthorn berries but what I noticed they were not frightened of humans they let me approach to a couple of yards before they moved only too the next bush Feltwad
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    Two Punt Guns

    Feltwad replied to Feltwad's topic in Wildfowling

    Enclosed is a image of a friends punt located in the Fowling part of a display Friends Punt
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    Two Punt Guns

    Feltwad replied to Feltwad's topic in Wildfowling

    Most of my fowling antique guns I have moved on ,to me these guns are part of our wildfowling heritage which we must preserve for future generations enclosed is a image of a stand of long fowlers from my past Feltwad A Stand of Fowlers
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    Hi Underdog glad too see you are still around has for the collection moved on most of my big guns several years ago at 79years old this month it is just reminiscent Feltwad
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