winchester79

Hi Nigel. she looks fantastic well done on such a traditional skillful build,will you be getting the gun on her next season? all the best...ian

hi again fantastic work, look forward to seeing her completed, i am also at the stage of building another punt to fit the double gun as she sits too far back on the old one, will get my finger out and get a few pics to you. all the best...ian

Hi a gentleman rang me this week about the history and details of my 1.5" single punt gun but as i have not taken his number i cannot contact him sees this. The gun does have a hole through the collet in which you can see the firing pin, the bolt that was fitted must have been replaced at some point, the proof marks are for birmingham and have a crown atop of cross pikes and the letters B P C also there is another with cross pikes and what looks like a V?? contradicting this on the other side it has the BP and a crown on top. so to my mind that makes the gun 1875 and the black powder mark between 1905/1954 it would be interesting to know what you think cheers..ian

shaking things up a bit this season, the 1.5" punt gun is for sale on guntrader and i have just bought a T.Frostick double 1 1/8th on hawker recoil system so now need to build a block to accept the pin on the recoil set up, the gun is running at 8oz from each barrel or 16oz double discharge a thorough pattern testing in the next few months will see how she preforms i will pop a couple of pics up soon

will do carl, hopefully will be able to get out a bit more next season so your more than welcome to come for a run out all the best...ian

finally managed to get a few pictures uploaded, this was our first shot we picked three then as the tide flooded another two came floating up so netted both of them, only five but we were very happy with the stalk and the clean kills, i worked out the other day thats around 39hrs for five widgeon but worth every bead of sweat the aching muscles and the hour of cleaning stinking black powder residue out the gun and off the decks. on this day the wind set against us and even with the big oars we could make very little ground so out we got grabbed the anchor rope and walked her the last mile or so back home, it always supprises me how much wind catches such a low craft but i suppose the two great lumps sitting up don't help

hello yes have had her afloat three times now, very pleased with how she handles the only thing is when the wind is head on it stops us dead even with the big oars so its get out and walk her home time, we did stalk a small pack of widgeon last time but fired slightly low so took only 5 out of the 20 or so birds even so all were killed clean so we were very pleased only took around 40 hours and 4000 pounds for those 5 duck but worth it for the time you spend in the most beautiful surroundings, i will get some pictures converted and posted soon hope everyone is having a great season so far

also had my brass heads that were designed for card tubes converted to brass, the head threads into the brass tube which makes priming, decapping and cleaning much easier the paddles all painted and the first of the ash pole ready for its steel shoe

i have had a set of cup seal tools made to fit the gun, they sit over the powder and when fired they flare out in the barrel giving a total seal giving very hard shooting characteristics.

the gun is home after her trip to scotland

The gun is ready for collection after having some work done also had brass cases made for her i have had a set of tools made that produce a cup seal wad that opens like an umbrella when shot down the barrel to produce a constant seal photos to follow soon

chris with the spray gun on the first layers

This was the original seat from the old punt we covered it with neoprene from my old chestys really comfortable