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 12-12-2010, 07:41 PM | #11 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Heidelberg, MS Posts: 1,133 |
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Second, the niples for the percussion caps are filled with metal so it's not going to fire without new niples
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Ummm, those aren't nipples, they're firing pins. | 
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| 12-12-2010, 07:45 PM | #12 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Amity Posts: 619 |
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First it is belgium, at least it has belgium marks of proof. Second, the niples for the percussion caps are filled with metal so it's not going to fire without new niples, I would concern about the niples more than about the hammers if I was you
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Ummm--NO. It's not percussion. It's a breech loading shotgun. What
you are calling "metal in the nipples" are the firing pins. | |
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| 12-12-2010, 07:47 PM | #13 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Heidelberg, MS Posts: 1,133 |
Didn't I just say that?  | |
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| 12-12-2010, 08:20 PM | #14 | Moderator Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Third bunker on the right, Central Virginia Posts: 8,373 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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Lefaucheaux style, made in Belgium. With the hammer, a smith should be able to find a stock replacement, heat and bend to shape. Considering the age, THAT gun was likely made for black powder- would not shoot it with ANYTHING. Sears catalog reprint- check with your library- if they do not have a copy, they can get one for you on interlibrary loan. Check out the 69 cent revolver. You could also buy dynamite, blasting caps, and cocaine. __________________
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| 12-14-2010, 01:04 AM | #15 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Amity Posts: 619 |
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Didn't I just say that? |
Yup----great minds think alike? Or you just have faster fingers!  | |
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| 12-15-2010, 04:28 PM | #16 | Supporting Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Macon, Georgia Posts: 816 |
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Lefaucheaux style, made in Belgium. With the hammer, a smith should be able to find a stock replacement, heat and bend to shape. Considering the age, THAT gun was likely made for black powder- would not shoot it with ANYTHING.
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Nothing wrong with the stock.. I'll most likely leave it the way it is. I'm 100% on the black powder. The age of this gun precludes shooting anything else
even though the barrels are NOT damascus. Dixie Gunworks have the hammers I'll need and then we'll try some light loads to see how she shoots after the resto has been completed. __________________
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| 12-15-2010, 06:15 PM | #17 | Supporting Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: hoboken Posts: 366 |
this is the firing pin of my st-ettiene side by side shotty,same model as yours but in .16cal ,I shoot this old bird a lot and always use 50 grain's of black powder with a brenneke bullit,but I ask myself if this old lady can be used with modern 16 gauche ammo,old man be carefull in using this gun my friend
this could be a rifle that is made by one off the hundreds of gunsmith's that where located in the LIEGE area,in that case quality is not always guaranteed
IMHO not having a makers mark looks suspicious to me ,I would ask a gunsmith if it's still safe to shoot this gun
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| 12-15-2010, 08:08 PM | #18 | Moderator Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Third bunker on the right, Central Virginia Posts: 8,373 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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OldMan- I was not referring to the wooden buttstock- I meant a stock (standard replacement part) HAMMER- as in heat and bend to shape. __________________
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| 12-16-2010, 05:49 AM | #19 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 556 |  double trouble
i has to be french ....the hammers look like tongues...one stickin out ,one sticking up ...lol | |
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