Lewis and Clark’s Girandoni Air Rifle

[nobber]

I dry patch my .40 cal air gun. if you use too much spit it starts running into the valve and ball and has to be cleaned, I wipe my gun with oil and lightly oil one patch for the inside of the barrell, never have needed a short starter as my ramrod is brass. I shot the L&C rifle but I like mine better, little heavier but feels better on my shoulder. the needle valve on this gun is a little different than mine, there is a flintlock on mine that actually works to open the valve. Mine will kill a deer at full charge at 83 yards. I can get 10-12 good shoots out of a full charge before I start to worry about effectiveness. Mine also has a sleeve for the barrel so u can shoot ..22 cal. pellets out of it and you can literally shoot all weekend on one charge if u use .22's. Every year at the Midwest Rendezvous we have an air gun shoot on Friday for fun and I always get a bunch of kids on my team. There are usually 2 of us that have these guns and we have had the maker attend 3 years so we have 3 teams going at it! My air reservoir takes 2,200 pumps to be fully charged, or the valve for a scuba tank fills it to full in like 3 seconds(don't think I will wear out my pump hehe)


nobber

[Winter Hawk]

Nobber, do you have any fotos? Other information like maker, etc?

Thanks,
~Kees~

[nobber]

Dennis Priddy up in Michigan is the maker. It is a copy of a gun that an apprentice at Mortimer and sons(gunmaker to the royal family of Great Britain) modified to assassinate The king a few years before the rev war. Dennis has made 8 or 9 I think, I have the seventh one made but it is numbered 8 because my birthday is 8/8. Friend of mine has number 7 that is actually the 8th made. I have a Pedersoli 54 cal flinter I have shot for years and it was the gun that the apprentice modified to make his assassins weapon but he was caught and hung before he could whack the king, I am in the process of moving but when I find my research and documentation I will try to put it here and see if the wife can get a pick of my gun on here for ya

nobber

[Puffer]

On pg.s 75 - 77 of The Mortimer Gunmakers - 1753-1923 by H. Lee Munson the airgun(s) that they built.

[nobber]

I can't get the dam pics to drop in, the one u have pictured is a Mortimer copy of the L&C gun mine is a pedersoli Mortimer (the flintlock I shoot) and the airgun in a full stock version with an actual flintlock lock and a the air reservoir is a ball that screws right in front of the trigger guard, I will see if the wife can figure out how to download a pic.


nobber

[Spotted Bull]

Nobber can you email me the picture? I'll post it for you. Send me a PM for my email address.