I'm 22 and just got into black powder mike is truly the reason why I pray you have a hasty and wholesome recovery

So sorry you got hurt but pleased to hear you are on your way to recovery. Keep getting better and please know how much we enjoy your YT channel and your website. Your knowledge and explanations are excellent. Thank you for teaching some of us all about muzzleloading and BP.

I love the wintertime for the build videos. Shooting videos are great, but these are my favorite.

I have one of them and you're correct about contact distance for use. Accuracy at 10 feet is something to be desired. It's a good conversation starter in a shadow box with reproduction newspaper clippings behind it.

I'm looking forward to the next installment.

That wood looks like it has some nice figure in it. I can't wait to see it finished.

Morning caffe and enjoying Mike nothing better 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Looking forward to seeing the finished product. 👍

Not sure how I missed this 2 weeks ago. Now to watch part 2!

Glad to see you back, Mike.

I greatly enjoy these kit build videos, would love to see a Harper's ferry pistol kit

That looks so much better than the kit I built my 3 from.

Thanks for the video Mike, i'm curious to see how this derringer turns out.

Thanks Mike Was hoping for a winter build of some sort

Glad to see you back, looking forward to seeing the build 👍

I guess I must be an odd duck, I'm the only one in whole world that loves writings on gun barrels, I like seeing the caliber, name of gun company and where it was made on barrels ............

@pbp6741

4 ай бұрын

You and collectors

I would love to see 1 of these built I've always been interested in building this size and a long gun...

Well played sir... really like the radio in the background... 🤫

Looks promising. Better than some I have seen. Looking forward to the build!

Watching this video makes me want to buy a black powder kit and build something. I’ve pulled apart muskets to redo them but watching your building videos makes me want to start something from scratch.

Good to have you back and with a build

I purchased a finished one from Cabela’s awhile back and had to immediately refuse it. The fit and finish were horrendous and I remember reading the same thing from other people online. I would say that building your own is certainly the way to go with these little derringers.

The A. Lincoln assasins weapon!!!

Oh Noes, its a Ghost Gun!!!! Yes, we've been building our own guns before 1791.

Thank you Mike. That looks like a challenge for someone with big hands like yours. But you make it look easy. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these videos. I have learned a lot from your videos. your knowledge is much appreciated thanks again Mike.

Thank you Mike

I was surprised by how much this kit cost at Dixie Gun Works. $450!! A complete Uberti 1851 Navy was $375. I wonder why the cost is so high considering its simplicity and being in kit form? Doesn't make sense....... Anyway, looking forward to the build.

Good morning from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your adventures and videos of information and details

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

Hi Earl

Hi Mike, good to hear from you again. Hope all is well Sir. Look forward to seeing you work on that belly gun. It sure looks tiny. Thanks for all your hard work and time.

I don’t comment much, but I want to let you know, I enjoy your videos.

I have a Jukar made derringer copy that ive actually been pleasantly surprised with. Though it has a weak spring so I'll be watching your series to get some ideas on how to fix/replace it. Look forward to future installments.

Always a pleasure 👍

This is so fascinating to see how it’s done properly. Thanks for taking us along.

Very cool build.

Well this should be interesting

Thanks for the video Mike! I’ve always wanted to see one of these kits put together. And considering that you are the reason my new model army Remington is burr free and runs smooth, along with working with a Ted Cash snail capper. Your input on that project was instrumental so I know I can trust your opinion. Thanks again friend.

Thank you.

Why do these kits come with no instructions? Great process to teaching us.

Looks like a lot of fun. Makes me want to start one. Thanks for taking us through it with you.

Great to see another build series!

Just got a chance to see your latest video. Looks like a cool project. I agree with you on the rifled barrel. Why rifle the barrel of a gun that is meant for card table diameter distance? Were the original Derringers rifled? Seems a smoothie would be far more practical for various reasons. I'll be lookng forward to seeing you shooting it though. Especially at the Den.

Hi Mike. Was delighted to see the first video of this series pop up as I had acquired an older Philadelphia Deringer and want to follow along with you to refurbish mine. This one isn’t near as good as the Pedersoli version and a lot of work will be needed to bring mine up to snuff. Love the information gleaned from your videos, please keep them coming.

So excited! In the shop! It’s snowing, let’s build! Ratings be d…

Yay! A build video! ❤

I built two Philadelphia Derringers in 1977, at the age of 16. I still have them, but they’ve never been fired. I think I paid around $35 each.

Nice video as always Mike! Keep up the good work and the good fight!

Good video!

Wow that is actually a pretty cool kit! A CVA Philadelphia derringer was the second kit build I ever did. I want to say 1975/76. It and I have an interesting story In itself. This looks very interesting I may have to do one to add my custom touches. Now I'm sure you haven't seen it, but I recently acquired a new pedersoli purchase myself. I did a video on it entitled exceeding expectations. Shooting at least the CVA was fun but with only a front wedge shaped sight not a tack driver. Yet kinda of wish I still had it. With the extra brass inlays I could see myself going for some engraving. I'll see if have an inspiration come to me. Currently I'm impatiently awaiting a customized revolver to come back to me for finishing touches. When it does I will do a couple of videos on it. Mountain man

@gunsnwater2668

4 ай бұрын

I built the same around the same time.

@StevenMMan

4 ай бұрын

@@gunsnwater2668 cool

Great to see you again. So carving knife is what appears you used to carve out the painfully inlays haha, I know it was hard, you have pretty large hands for such a tiny pistol hahaha nicely done. I am a wood carver so, yea small tight areas are always cumbersome for sure. Take care old man, from another old floridacracker!

awsome sir very good vidio

Yeah! I'm so glad you're doing a build. I love your build videos.

Thanks for the video Mike. I'm using it to see everything I did wrong lol. I got an old kit as a Christmas gift from an antique shop. It's a Ultra Hi products percussion cap pistol. Not great quality but I'm enjoying learning about the process. It will probably go to a gunsmith before I think of shooting it. Great video, thanks again

I just got a Juker Philly Derringer. Yours looks pretty well fitted compared to mine. Everything I need to fit a lot of work. Nice and fun build I hope

@greghardy9476

3 ай бұрын

I have one also. Mine is a second hand kit. What a lot of folks think it’s a week mainspring. Most times it’s a lousy lock plate mortise. Sand the stock and keep checking the hammer clearance to the stock. It rubs bad. I also had to reshape the sear. This is to keep it from dropping into the half cock notch when firing. I’m also pouring a pewter nose cap.

@greghardy9476

3 ай бұрын

Correction: Weak mainspring.

@bloodypirategutszero8899

3 ай бұрын

@@greghardy9476 mine is a Deer creek product, if I remember right the seller said it was vintage. I had been looking for a kit for the past 4 years, always out of stock or was just going for more than I wanted to pay. I’m taking it nice and slow on this project. Just got the barrel fitted to perfection

Glad to see you again Mike. This might make a great series, Mike building kits. Maybe a Kibler SMR too? Keep up the great work.

Good to see you back. I was worried. Yes! A Philly gut gun. You should contact Pedersolli about the assembly instructions. It would help them. BTW, you'll need to have MSDNC on in the background in your next vid to satisfy your Bidenite audience, LOL. I do know that KZread doesn't want any copyrighted songs in the background. Greetings from Mayberry.

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

I forgot to turn it off when I started filming...LOL

Cool man cool

The gun that was 'used' to kill Lincoln. Fixed it for ya, Mike ; ) We have to be very careful with our wordings these days; don't give them any more "ammo" to be used against us..

If you ever decide to lose weight I can tell you how I did it. I am 63 and I have lost 60 pounds within the last year. I eliminated everything from my diet except for meat, eggs, butter, bacon, salt, vitamins and minerals, coffee and tea, an occasional salad without dressing but with vinegar and blue cheese, and spices. I don't eat sugar or anything with added sugar. I eat until I am full, I don't go hungry. The idea is to promote low insulin levels and to burn fat.

@johnndavis7647

4 ай бұрын

Same here I was having pre-diabetes symptoms so I put myself on a low carb diet. I am down four or five belt notches.

@sleeperno1215

Ай бұрын

I did too. I’m down 44 lbs since September.

@alleyratAnderson

Ай бұрын

@@sleeperno1215 I finally reached 143 pounds, and I get hungrier which tells me that my weight loss is finished. Now we are going to have an occasional ice-cream cone. What caused me to gain weight were too many carbs, at 30 I started eating lots of pizza, spaghetti, and macaroni and cheese, I gained 45 pounds in a year, the carbs caused me to have low blood sugar attacks which I countered by eating even more. Then I took a sit down second shift job, breakfast would be at taco bell, dinner after midnight would be Wendy's. I weighed 209 when I went keto, for my height of 5'8" and small bone size 209 is way to heavy. I had maintained about 205 +/- 5 pounds for 20 years, I just needed to lose the weight that I had put on 30 years ago.

You could write it and run it through translation, and post it,brother, safety 1st. This is very relaxing to watch, took me a whole winter to do my kaintuck, with a very sharp pocketknife, and tiny diamond files.

Looks a lot better than some cva pistol kits I’ve built.. talk about poor castings and very rough parts..

Those work quite nice and a lot more controllable than the Liegi derringer.

Thank you for the video. I am very interested in watching you inlet the lock because I am considering a L&R lock upgrade on my traditions flintlock. From what I've heard, you will have do some minor inletting to fit a L&R lock.

I emailed Dixie Gun works about the instructions and the reply was that the parts diagram WAS the instructions.

Once it is finished, I would. love to know the muzzle velocity.

I have the old CVA derringer I built from a kit. Paid $30. for the box at an auction. It will pop caps all day long until you load it. lol. Yes I've cleaned out the channel.

Card table distance gun.

Not that I didn't look it up, but I didn't hear the caliber during the introduction.🤔 The stock fit was looking pretty good though.

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

.45

Rifled ? Why ? Is that historical or Pedersoli’s idea ?

Mike, if you put the entire gun together, how will you put finish on the grip?

Are traditions gun kits similar in what you have to modify?

Note: be careful with the use of epoxy to secure the inlaying, as you (do not want to epoxy the wedge in place). That is because you will never get the wedge out without breaking something. As I had a devil of a time removing frozen wedges on a Kentucky long rifle, that had a bad polyurethane finish put on it.

Hey Mike, do you have any 18th century flintlock stuff coming up? Miss those vids!

I'm guessing Pedersoli mounts these piece of wood in a jig and a CNC cuts the undersized shapes out of the stock. They have to keep everything to a price point as I'm sure the purchase volume of these is quite low, but it seems the wood isn't a high density quality hardwood.

I am interested in watching you build this kit. Did you say what caliber the Derringer is. I can't wait to see you firing it on the firing range. PS build you a handle for that ramrod, or get someone with a wood lathe to turn you a handle and drill a hole in it and slide it in. By the way i didn't mind the radio.

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

It is a .45

Hey duelist ive got a question you know how in modern times we all stress the point that you have to clean your black powder firearms almost immediately after a shooting session did they really clean theyre guns back then as often as we say clean them in todays times i dont know where to look to find a historically accurate answer to this question in some ways i think they probably didnt clean them that often but also i ve never seen or heard mention of an actual period C&B revolver being rusted from a lack of cleaning either lastly im nearly certain durimg the civil war and even into the indian wars water probably wasnt priorotized for cleaning guns your thoughts and or input would be greatly appreciated

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

During the black powder era, every army I’ve studied was very strict about cleaning guns after a fight. Arms inspections were common. “The men might be dirty, but the guns are clean.” Is a quote that stuck in my mind.

@GeorgiaRidgerunner

4 ай бұрын

@@duelist1954 ok so they did actually clean there guns as often back then as we do today thank you for takimg time to answer my question

The Tyrant Blaster 9000 ^.-.^

Where do you buy these kits ?

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

Dixie Gun Works

Mike, how were you able do get this in kit form? I've been trying to find one of these with no luck. I have been checking Dixie Gun works regularly, when you go to kits only the invest arms plains pistol comes up. Any help or response would be helpful. Thx, n thanks for what you do 👍🇺🇲

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

I didn't do anything special. Dixie has them in stock, both kits and assembled guns. www.dixiegunworks.com/index/page/product/product_id/9006

@jacobwilbert1018

4 ай бұрын

@@duelist1954 Thanks so much, your link worked for me. I was able to find the completed one but not the kit. Lookin forward to the series. Thanks alot from your Perry county neighbor, i appreciate the response.

how much did the kit cost you? these things seem way over priced nowa days

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

Like everything else? Under $500

Interesting! I guess Pedersoli markets to Real Men - who, of course, never read instructions.😉

So good to see you Mr. Mike. It has been a while. I was afraid you were like Odysseus in Plato's Odyssey, as he battled the Olympian God's that hinder and divert his return home. Is it so different from what you are experiencing with certain powers of our contemporary times. Nice little project by the way. . .

The radio was distracting. Still good video.

Hey, Mike kind of off subject , but I'm looking at getting an 1861 Navy 38 cal. from Taylor's. Price including tax and shipping would be $430. Reasonable price?

@duelist1954

4 ай бұрын

Yup. That sounds about right.

@jbhickok7796

4 ай бұрын

@@duelist1954Thanks, Mike. I appreciate you taking the time.

hey Mike ALL derringers suck past arm's length! both in accuracy and power! could you tell a company that carries iron/steel ball molds? all i can find are the Lee shop molds and i want some for my shooting bag.

@johnnottahcal5725

3 ай бұрын

Track of the Wolf

@keithmoore5306

3 ай бұрын

@@johnnottahcal5725didn't see any when i was there i'll have to look again!

@johnnottahcal5725

3 ай бұрын

@@keithmoore5306 Well, I’ve been known to not take good notes. I swear they used to sell primitive scissor molds for many common round ball sizes. No where near home so can’t dig through records.

@keithmoore5306

3 ай бұрын

@@johnnottahcal5725yeah i meant i might have missed them i may not have put that all that great! appreciate it all i can find are the Lee molds!

@johnnottahcal5725

3 ай бұрын

@@keithmoore5306 I’m not sure what ball diameter you’re after but try Dixie Gun Works. They sell a brass round ball mould. You pick diameter. Good casting!

I got one does not shoot well.Its a very pretty gun but I can't hit a thing with it.

I'm working on a traditions trapper an nothing fits I've gotten all the parts fitted now the stock is way over sized

Some kits are 41...some are 44..some are 45...it's nuts

Pedersoli is famous for inscribing their moniker in the worst, visible place. Uberti by contrast tastefully puts their moniker out of sight.

I found one kit it's smooth bored

I see your ambidextrous. LOL

And they want 450$ for that?

Well, I won't be getting one of these, thank you.

Background talk on immigration at about 00:10:54 might get Mike in trouble...

@tomcurran8470

4 ай бұрын

It sounds like Ted Cruz on the radio. However, Senator Fetterman has now had an epiphany and is criticizing his own party for not enforcing immigration laws.

@scrappybobbarker5224

4 ай бұрын

Mike is a US citizen he cant be deported

Burnish all that text off.

Reactionary radio, kinda hoping you weren’t actually not one but whatever……….

@tomcurran8470

4 ай бұрын

Is a reactionary someone who wants long standing laws enforced?

@dwaynestach7651

4 ай бұрын

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.." Let's note that Newton uses the word 'equal' ? If I had a dollar for every time "progressives" dismiss conservatism as reactionary...... (Sorry, Mike... Only here for the Deringer build. If I didn't have to slave away for these entitled Lefties, I might have time to finish my Kibler... lol)

@Beuwen_The_Dragon

3 ай бұрын

What, were you hoping he was a lemming who stuffs his head in the dirt and ignores what is happening to his country?

Interesting project…assuming someone has a range permit or hunting license, is it possible to fire these at public ranges in Pennsylvania (the ones that allow pistol firing)?

@duelist1954

Ай бұрын

Yes