griff wrote:

I may as well show the Featherlight.

Looks to be in pretty dang good shape, there, Griff...

Last edited by Gravdigr (11/02/2020 8:22 pm)

C'mon Sarge, he's much older than six.  

Is that an English shotgun?

I've got a H&R 10 gauge.

It's a US Navy flare gun, I wouldn't try a 10 gauge shotgun load.

Stamped on the smooth bore  4½ inch barrel is,  "PISTOL , VERY, 10 GAGE , M5" wording, punctuation, and spelling is theirs.

Edit: but the way it's built it would definitely take a shotgun shell if you were that stupid.

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (11/12/2020 12:10 am)

You have to have a range of shades to compliment your ensemble of the day.

bought a really decent gun cabinet at the used furniture place yesterday for only $30. the catch - they didnt have the key. got it open today, replaced the lock, and added a shelf on top for mags and any additional handguns i might get. pretty happy with it. not bad for like $40 all in.

I ran across this holster ad for one specifically made for a double barrel 12 gauge pistol. I can't even.
The picture is faked because his hands would not be still after pulling the trigger.

1500 pumps! That'll put hair on your palms.

Apparently Lewis' gun is on display at the Pentagon unless it's back home at the War College in Carlyle, PA. I didn't realize it was still in existence because the gear from the expedition is largely gone.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/12/13/lewis-and-clarks-girandoni-air-rifle/In 2004, Beeman was contacted by master gunsmith Ernie Cowan, who wanted to duplicate the Girandoni weapon in his collection (Beeman’s was the sole representation of the weapon in North America). Beeman agreed. Cowan and his collaborator, Rick Keller, in carefully disassembling the weapon, made an electrifying discovery. In their careful dissection of the Girandoni, Cowan and Keller found evidence of repairs made to the piece that noted gun historian Mike Carrick confirmed as corresponding precisely to entries in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition recounting such repairs. Perhaps the most significant repair they discovered was a replaced mainspring. Lewis noted exactly such a repair in his June 10, 1805, journal entry: “[Expedition gunsmith John] Shields removed the main Spring of my air gun.” The repair was made with a farrier’s file ordinarily used to trim horses’ hooves. Other repairs included a new forward pin lug, middle thimble, and scarph joint in the rifle’s forearm, which replaced European walnut with good American walnut.To his surprise and gratification, Beeman found himself the proud owner of the famous Lewis and Clark Girandoni. Beeman concedes that the Girandoni has a very peculiar and significant place in American history, but adds scrupulously: “We must avoid the very misleading thought that the Girandoni opened or won the West. Rather it was the key to Lewis and Clark returning alive and promoting the West.”

Canadian Machine Gun Carriers, early armored vehicles...


I read another article this morning that said much of the equipment was bought by a few rich Canadians.