Nice video sir. I own an Allen Thurber Pepperbox. It was handed down thru my mothers family and was originally owned by a great uncle name of Valentine Tapley. A wealthy Missouri farmer and staunch democrat. He refused to ever shave again if Lincoln was elected and by the time he died at 80 in 1910 his beard was over 12 feet long. You can do a google search on his name and find a picture and story of him. The gun is not in firing condition. A bad or missing spring. The hammer will rise and barrel will turn but the hammer does not come down with any force. It just kind of flops down. A man at a gunshow had one and allowed me to examine and even dry fire it once and it snapped down with a lot more force. Also the trigger guard and nipple shield are missing and the nipples are in bad shape. Thanks for this video on an interesting type of gun I own.
Thanks for that information. I did search for your relative. An amazing story. It is too bad your Pepperbox is damaged. I doubt that parts are easy to find. Best to treasure it as an important family heirloom.
Thanks Evan, I enjoyed the exert from Twain's book, "Roughing It." I will surely have to read it! Having all six barrels on that Pepperbox go off at once, might be enough to make you drop a dollar in your boots!
Multiple discharges or chain fires also occurred with other revolvers if the front of the cylinder charge holes were not properly sealed. Modern shooters use Crisco or a purpose made grease. Roughing It is one of the rare books that make me laugh out loud. Look for the passage about the dog with scabies that jumped off the boat into a mineral lake.
Evan, this was a very interesting discussion on the ALLEN Pepperbox. At one time, I thought about buying a replica of this little handgun but then, I decided against it. I'm more into the "Traditional" style of handguns. There was a time when you could also buy an Under hammer muzzle loader which I started to buy. Thank you for sharing another wonderful video about our firearms from Yesteryear. Stan in Idaho
Yo y’all best clap up Evan tho he a true OG my dawgs an he loves guns almost as much as I an I real talk u da best there is my g keep dropping dem vids fam !!!! 💯🐐💥💥💥🙏🏿☝🏿🙏🏿
Another interesting presentation and artifact, Evan. Even though no Wyoming connection was cited for this pepperbox pistol, Mark Twain's humorous commentary more than made up for it.
There actually is a Wyoming connection. The pepperbox belonged to a Cheyenne butcher who imported a flock of sheep for his shop. Instead of turning them into mutton, he started a sheep ranch.
@@noahcount7132 We do 7-8 videos at one time so I lose track of some things I want to say. The pepper box belonged to Thomas Durbin. With his brother, started the first meat market in Cheyenne. Brought in 900 sheep in 1870. Eventually expanded into raising cattle. Moved to Deadwood during the gold rush, returned to Cheyenne in 1877. Died here in 1936.
I now know a lot more about the Pepperbox then I did before. And interesting part of firearms history. Thank you Evan.
The Clements' quotation was great. Thanks for all the great information and videos.
There is more funny stuff in Roughing It. One of my favorite books, often re-read.
Nice video sir. I own an Allen Thurber Pepperbox. It was handed down thru my mothers family and was originally owned by a great uncle name of Valentine Tapley. A wealthy Missouri farmer and staunch democrat. He refused to ever shave again if Lincoln was elected and by the time he died at 80 in 1910 his beard was over 12 feet long. You can do a google search on his name and find a picture and story of him. The gun is not in firing condition. A bad or missing spring. The hammer will rise and barrel will turn but the hammer does not come down with any force. It just kind of flops down. A man at a gunshow had one and allowed me to examine and even dry fire it once and it snapped down with a lot more force. Also the trigger guard and nipple shield are missing and the nipples are in bad shape. Thanks for this video on an interesting type of gun I own.
Thanks for that information. I did search for your relative. An amazing story. It is too bad your Pepperbox is damaged. I doubt that parts are easy to find. Best to treasure it as an important family heirloom.
Thanks Evan, I enjoyed the exert from Twain's book, "Roughing It." I will surely have to read it! Having all six barrels on that Pepperbox go off at once, might be enough to make you drop a dollar in your boots!
Multiple discharges or chain fires also occurred with other revolvers if the front of the cylinder charge holes were not properly sealed. Modern shooters use Crisco or a purpose made grease. Roughing It is one of the rare books that make me laugh out loud. Look for the passage about the dog with scabies that jumped off the boat into a mineral lake.
Evan, this was a very interesting discussion on the ALLEN Pepperbox. At one time, I thought about buying a replica of this little handgun but then, I decided against it. I'm more into the "Traditional" style of handguns. There was a time when you could also buy an Under hammer muzzle loader which I started to buy.
Thank you for sharing another wonderful video about our firearms from Yesteryear.
Stan in Idaho
We have an underhammer rifle in our collection. I hope to talk about it in a future video.
@@evangreen9430; That would be awesome.
Yo y’all best clap up Evan tho he a true OG my dawgs an he loves guns almost as much as I an I real talk u da best there is my g keep dropping dem vids fam !!!! 💯🐐💥💥💥🙏🏿☝🏿🙏🏿
enjoyed the show.
Thank you!
Another interesting presentation and artifact, Evan. Even though no Wyoming connection was cited for this pepperbox pistol, Mark Twain's humorous commentary more than made up for it.
There actually is a Wyoming connection. The pepperbox belonged to a Cheyenne butcher who imported a flock of sheep for his shop. Instead of turning them into mutton, he started a sheep ranch.
@@evangreen9430 Thanks, Evan. The Wyoming connection makes it that much better!
@@noahcount7132 We do 7-8 videos at one time so I lose track of some things I want to say. The pepper box belonged to Thomas Durbin. With his brother, started the first meat market in Cheyenne. Brought in 900 sheep in 1870. Eventually expanded into raising cattle. Moved to Deadwood during the gold rush, returned to Cheyenne in 1877. Died here in 1936.
I know with every video I have learned a lot of firearm history, does the museum own any Thompsons A1's ?
Yeah but no one said you can't customize it so why didn't people do that?
Have one similar to this pepperbox, mine is missing the trigger guard. Not sure what caliber ,but is marked with 1847 date.
How do I go about getting one refurbished
I'm pretty sure I have we different ways to instantly reload it
You can make a site for it best gun