Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
The January issue of AMERICAN RIFLEMAN featured a review of the "Dixie Howda Hunter Handgun" - a double-barrelled percussion piece, your choice of two 20 gauge barrels, or one 20 gauge and one rifled .50, or two rifled 50's, or two rifled .58's.
The article said that it weighs slightly over 5 poundsand has a simple brass front bead sight on its 11 1/4 inch barrels. Recoil is light, not surprising, given the weight: accuracy not terrific. With the short barrels and overall length (18 1/2 inches), it's of course a FAC item, whether rifled or smoothbore.
At $675.00 suggested retail, I'm not in any hurry to get one, but was curious whether anyone on the Forum had any experience with it?
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
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Jim,
though I am unable to help with the specific issue raised by you, thought I might throw in a movie trivia. You will find a rather interesting Howdah pistol was used by Michael Douglas in the film ‘The Ghost and Darkness’ . It even had a spring bayonet.
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title...d_the_Darkness
ATB,
Krish
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hi jim,dont have any experience of the dixie pistol but i do own a a howdah pistol, an obsolite calibre double barreled breech loading 20 bore pinfire with rifled barrels... its a most intimidating piece especially looking at it from the buisness end. .i have a double barreled .410 hammer pistol which i use for ratting on the family farm[one of the exemptions from our pistol ban].i imagine shooting a howdah is pretty much like that but with much more bang and recoil...cheers greasemonkey
Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
Great stuff, Krish: thank you! I've never heard of that movie: must see it!Originally Posted by Anand
I notice that Val Kilmer also starred in the flick. He's one of my favorites, and I mentioned him in a message to the Forum earlier today.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
Sounds like a most interesting pistol, GM.
You should post side by side pics of it and of the .410 pistol, for comparison.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
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I guess when the tiger is climbing up your elephants back the recoil issue doesnt really worry you. If you didnt hit it with the first shot I dont reckon you'd have time for a second though.
MArk
My karma ran over your dogma
Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
I emphatically agree about recoil, Mark.
You're probably right about the second shot: but I'd still prefer two-shot capability, if for no other reason than to make me feel better.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
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sorry jim,too technically thick to do photos.quite a few british howdah pistols were built using side by side breech opening shotgun actions,made for some pretty looking pistols.speaking of recoil there was an email going about a while back with video footage of some poor simple soul firing a pistol chambered in 600 nitro express[i think].as you can expect the thing threw itself out of his hand nearly wrenching his arm off in the process.i dont know if it was a set up or not but it made pretty dramatic viewing.. cheers..greasemonkey
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You talking about this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsEojBGojI
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thats the one! was he brave or daft or both? bet he didnt have a second go....greasemonkey
Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
Don't worry, GM: I don't know how to post photos, either.
That guy in video was just plain crazy! I hope he was barred from the range.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Zombie Monkey
Hi Jim,
Just read that article. Looks a nice gun
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/popup_image.php?pID=14019
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/advance...pistol&x=5&y=7
regards
Chris
Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
Hi, Chris! I notice that the 20 x 20 version sells for a bit cheaper. That's the one I'd want!
Note the great reviews it received.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
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jim,just looked at the pic of that gun,its a must have item ,no bedside table should be without one,couple drams of black and an ounce of swan shot in each barrel ,settle any dispute..cheers ..greasemonkey
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when i was a member of the vintage arms asso , a gent turned up at the range with a double barreled origional 577 black powder howdah hammer gun . it was inspected by all and declared fearsom . we all watched him load both barrels carefully . capped and ready to go . cocked only one hammer . and with a two handed stance he took aim at the target on the bank twenty five yards away and squeezed the trigger . the biggest blo-ody bang and flash i have ever seen went off . he staggered back a good three yards into the back wall with a very shocked look on his face . two big greyish circles of smoke folowed the lead down the range . the gun had still been loaded from the last time used . so he had fired double the charge and shot . the detonation had set the other barrel off as well . but when the pistol was inspected it was fine . i woud not like to be a tiger trying to get on the elephant that pistol was on ??? scimitar .
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