Girandoni air rifle as used by Lewis and Clark. A National Firearms Museum Treasure Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI&feature=player_embedded#at=70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI&feature=player_embedded#at=70
Girandoni air rifle as used by Lewis and Clark
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Someone posted this in the vids a couple days back.
Worth reading carefully through the site over at beemans.net (iirc) about the story here.
Personally, I think the evidence is pretty thin.
IIRC, this is the third rifle that Doc Beeman sold as "THE" L&C airgun.
But whatever. it's a pretty neat piece of gear no matter who carried it around. There are a couple different sites around that go through the making of replicas, starting with casting the receivers. There's a heck of a lot going on inside one of these that is not apparent until you really start to look.
Cheers
Trev
Worth reading carefully through the site over at beemans.net (iirc) about the story here.
Personally, I think the evidence is pretty thin.
IIRC, this is the third rifle that Doc Beeman sold as "THE" L&C airgun.
But whatever. it's a pretty neat piece of gear no matter who carried it around. There are a couple different sites around that go through the making of replicas, starting with casting the receivers. There's a heck of a lot going on inside one of these that is not apparent until you really start to look.
Cheers
Trev
