ODD BALKAN PISTOL

[rickystl]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Maybe it was a polite way to say that you should clean it...

LOL! Well, yes you're right. The whole gun needs a minor cleaning and a small amount of Ren wax on the stock. It's hard keeping all these guns cleaned

By the way, yes, the barrel is held to the fore end of the stock with a single pin. Which was not difficult to get out, but a real bugger to get back in. The pin was actually bent in a curve to fit the stock. Had to make a new pin from a finishing nail and slightly bending a little at a time while re-installing it.
Rick.

[kahnjar1]

Originally Posted by rickystl

LOL! Well, yes you're right. The whole gun needs a minor cleaning and a small amount of Ren wax on the stock. It's hard keeping all these guns cleaned

By the way, yes, the barrel is held to the fore end of the stock with a single pin. Which was not difficult to get out, but a real bugger to get back in. The pin was actually bent in a curve to fit the stock. Had to make a new pin from a finishing nail and slightly bending a little at a time while re-installing it.
Rick.

Well actually no, there was absolutely no intent to suggest that anything about the gun needed cleaning. To me the plate LOOKED to be missing and I guess it was that the two nails were so obvious that it looked that way.
Stu

[stelio]

My opinion is that it is a weapon made ​​from various antique pieces different weapons of the 17th-18th century to standards a rat tail pistol 19th century .The mechanism has from sisana (long ottoman weapon) from 17th-18th century ( photo ) or from Caucasian early flintlock pistol.
Stelios