Originally Posted By: EDM
Conventional wisdom is that Nathan R. Davis made America's only pin-fire just after the Civil War. By this I mean in commercial quantities, sold by dealers, and not just "one-off" muzzle-loader conversions. Has anybody ever seen one? Anybody collect? CDR Roy Gunther wrote something about these guns in an issue of The Gun Report years ago, if my recollection is correct.


Here is a William Golcher. This one is not a pin-fire, but he is known to have made pin fires as well according Larry Schuknecht in his "Two Shots".



This is his patent, dated 1869
http://www.google.com/patents?id=c31LAAA...y_r&cad=0_0

Just for the heck of it from 1933...


Pete

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