Adam Savage's Hamilton Dueling Pistols!

NEVER dry fire it with the frizzen back. You risk damaging the flintlock mechanism. It is ok to dry fire with the frizzen forward so the hammer has something to strike against. You can also put in a "wooden" flint if you want to dry fire but not make sparks and scratch the frizzen. Hope you fire them, tons of fun.

We have reached out to you on your email as an outlet for answers to any of your flintlock questions.

I would love to see you and Ian from Forgotten Weapons just geek out over the replicas in your collection and, hopefully, any originals of those replicas that he has access to. I don't expect a video like that to be shorter than 2 hours.

A Tested/Forgotten Weapons collaboration would be pretty cool to watch

The passion that Adam has for anything that he lays his hands on, is inspiring.

Just looking at the thumbnail... finger outside the trigger guard, not pointing at anyone, and it's probably not even loaded? Perfect gun safety! Once again Adam sets a good example.

I’ve got my great great great grandfathers set he took them to Spain with him as part of his officers baggage he had them rifled to use in place of the standard British officers pistol. As he wanted to honour his enemy Unfortunately they don’t fire anymore due to rust in the pan but they are truly something special

If you can, you should collab with The Slow Mo Guys to film them being fired. I think that would be a lovely way to appreciate the craftmanship and the technical design of these beautiful pieces.

Mark Novak has a lot of videos on gunsmithing that I never find boring. Look him up, he has a video where he hand checkers a set of M-1911 wooden grip panels.

Hey Adam! My father used to work for JP Morgan chase and one of the founders was actually Arron Bur. So the pistols that shot and killed Hamilton actually became owned by Arron Burs future company

I loved this show snd tell! As you stated, Uberti makes really nice replicas. I have seen a number of them. ( I like them because their replicas can be shot in competitions, where you would not want to use the real antique guns…. ) I would like to suggest a one day build; the powder flask for those pistols. From my research the early Wogdon supplied powder flask were pretty simple. Just an ovaloid cylinder with the tippet nipple and what looks like a capped filler hole. Most look like they were made of brass.

Got milk? :P Hamilton and Burr always make me think of the old milk tv ad!

I laughed so hard at Adam's impression of the dueling pistol firing sequence 🤣🤣🤣

On black powder guns , a practice I use and other have recommended is actually marking the ram rod for "safe". After you are 100% sure the weapon is clear , you can insert the ramrod into the muzzle and mark the point at which the ram rod touches the back of the breech block. Once marked, if you stick the ram rod in , and the line is NOT level in the muzzle , then the weapon is loaded. I've done this on the muzzle loader I've made for my father and grandfather. Also , you can , look down the flash hole and see if you can spot your ram rod as you're poking about.

Adam! Get in touch with Forgotten Weapons!!! It would be an absolute YouTube event to have you both firing black powered weapons the range.

The King of the Geeks, The Lord of the Nerds! Gotta love Adam

Jim Henson and now Hamilton? The tested content recently is being MADE FOR ME! Beautiful pistols too

Loved the backstage videos about the set pieces and props, glad to see a resurgence!

Good for you buying such a historic pair of replicas. They look amazing, ive handled a few uberti guns over the years and i concur that there made to a fantastic standard that really has a hand made feel

Really looking forward to see the build on the new reproduction case