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Re: Is Aydt engraving a portrait of original owner?
Reply #15 - Oct 22nd, 2022 at 2:01am
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Reply #16 - Oct 22nd, 2022 at 12:38pm
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Best to stay out of those slap dances if you're just there for a visit.

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Reply #17 - Oct 22nd, 2022 at 1:52pm
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I spent some time in joints like that, 'cept there weren't any music or dancin'. Oh! and the hats were cowboy ones.
  
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Re: Is Aydt engraving a portrait of original owner?
Reply #18 - Oct 22nd, 2022 at 2:05pm
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Check your personal messages hopkinskid.
  

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Re: Is Aydt engraving a portrait of original owner?
Reply #19 - Oct 27th, 2022 at 7:56am
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oneatatime, I got the loupe out to look at the portrait's neck and found what looked like what might be engraver's initials is an area of surface oxidation. I was able to ask Tom Rowe about the question of whether the portrait could/would have been of the original owner. His reply, basically, was "We'll never know. It could be, or it could be a character from an old beer ad." Both barrels are 8.15 with slightly different bore dimensions. The mounted barrel has about a .26" throat and in the fluted barrel the lands come all the way to the end of the chamber. I'm assuming breech seating and/or stop rings in the octagon barrel and better success with fixed cartridges in the fluted barrel.
  
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Re: Is Aydt engraving a portrait of original owner?
Reply #20 - Oct 27th, 2022 at 8:01am
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I have some more details on the octagon barrel dimensions at the end of the thread:      "Powder - How much or little will fit". I'll move that info here after I retake photos of the nitro proof,
Detmold and J Albrecht stamps on the barrel.
  
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