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Lovely, looking forward to hear a successful outcome. I'm content nowadays with a kill for the pot with a nice gun, and bird flushed and retrieved by one of my dogs, as icing on cake. Regards
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Mr W martin, I agree with you completely on a kill for the pot and using a nice gun. I'm down to my last dog and hope to give him a few chances next season. As he'll be my last dog . the upcoming seasons are getting fewer and fewer for me. Last season friends shot vintage hammer guns, and they used muzzle loaders on sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge. One friend got a double on pointed partridge with his Joseph Manton as I recall. Or, was it with his Patrick Mullin muzzle loader ? In any event both fine guns. I think the Manton was a conversion from around 1815. The Mullin was after 1850.
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Congratulations on the beautiful Headline, Daryl. I really like Bernard Damascus too. And the weight!! What a great gun to carry in the field next September and October!
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That Thomas Woodward (not his real name) guy comes up with some really interesting guns. I have known him for years and Michael has a really unique taste in guns. We were both members of the local Vintager's chapter here and shared an interest in snap action under lever guns including the "Spiral Spring" Woodwards. A really nice muzzleloader you acquired from him Daryl.
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Daryl, You have my sympathies, I'm dreading the day when I'm on my last dog, unfortunately it's approaching all too soon! Let's just enjoy the present and hopefully help and encourage others to follow our footsteps . Regards
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Daryl and Mr W martin, Having had my last dog a while ago without being on my last legs, I have been very fortunate to have friends with wonderful dogs who who welcomed a dogless hunter! (They know who they are!) I agree with you both about the fun of very old guns. As I have gotten older, I have enjoyed older and older guns. I have now jumped back in time over the pinfires and have been heading out for upland birds and ducks with muzzleloaders - guns of the ancestors at a point in life when I have grandchildren and am therefore already becoming an ancestor myself! Being out with friends chasing birds is fun and using an old gun to bag a couple of birds is fun. The size of the bag now matters less. Let's keep the Hedelines, Mullins and Mantons going and hope for more seasons to get out in the field, before anything too radical happens!
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Daryl and Mr W martin, Having had my last dog a while ago without being on my last legs, I have been very fortunate to have friends with wonderful dogs who who welcomed a dogless hunter! (They know who they are!) I agree with you both about the fun of very old guns. As I have gotten older, I have enjoyed older and older guns. I have now jumped back in time over the pinfires and have been heading out for upland birds and ducks with muzzleloaders - guns of the ancestors at a point in life when I have grandchildren and am therefore already becoming an ancestor myself! Being out with friends chasing birds is fun and using an old gun to bag a couple of birds is fun. The size of the bag now matters less. Let's keep the Hedelines, Mullins and Mantons going and hope for more seasons to get out in the field, before anything too radical happens! đź‘Ť
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Hedeline in Paris, 72 Fbg St. Honoré “Hédeline is Ferrier’s successor around 1868-1870” (source “Le Qui est Qui” by Jarlier). Very probably Charles Marie Hédeline, born in Trie-Château in 1825 (according to his death certificate) and died on February 10, 1880 in Paris, 25 rue Duphot. On the act he would have been an arquebusier. In an advertisement, published in "Le Siècle" of September 14, 1863, Hédeline is already quoted at 72 Fbg St Honoré. Married to Apolline Désirée Scapre on May 1852 in Paris. On a death certificate of his daughter on June 22, 1871, he declared himself a gunsmith at 72 Fbg St Honoré. his name appears on two Lefaucheux revolvers. https://lefaucheuxnet.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/lf12531-commercialise-par-hedeline/https://lefaucheuxnet.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/le-lf894-a-20-coups/guillaume
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Thank you for the Hedeline information. If this 16 ga. is typical of his work, his named guns should be sought after. A friend briefly used the Hedeline this fall during sharptail/partridge hunting and had good success shooting 3/4 oz of shot.
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Thanks for sharing this fine gun with us Daryl, I am sure you will enjoy it.
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