I know nothing about guns, but it looks very nice! :)

Do you fire it from a horse, or use it to kill a horse?

17th century cavalry weapon.

You carry it on horseback.

The very long barrel makes accurate aiming much easier.

Especially since the tactic after the charge was to ride into the melee and clouds of powder smoke and thrust the gun forward until you felt it touch something..Then pulled the trigger.

Some of these guns had barrels a couple of feet long.
Made it kind of hard to miss.

-Badger-

Oooh she's a beauty!

It looks great!

Hey you're still alive and POSTING!
Pistol looks amazing as always, what's your next project! :D

Don't know at the moment.

The urge to draw is almost gone these days.

I do sketch from time to time.
But almost nothing ever gets finished.

I just cannot seem to find the inspiration anymore.

-Badger-

I hear ya.
We're both at that point where we really truly don't give a fuck about anything.
And inspiration is a very hard thing to find these days.
But you did finish that neat pistol so that's something and it's always nice to see your crafting skills on display. :)

Oh, I give a few fucks even these days...

But I used to feel my drawing had special meaning for me.

A meaning I can't seem to find or grasp anymore.

I proved a long time ago I was a "real" artist- snide comments from some people aside.

But it seems like I lost something along the way, and I have no idea what it was.

-Badger-

I know the term has a specific meaning, but especially when I was younger and I spent a more time reading works from the 30's-40's and seeing movies made then, I heard the phrase 'horse pistol' used to describe very large revolvers. Especially the ones the US Post Office seemingly gave to their rural letter carriers and that many a railroad company gave to the conductor for the mail car.

That was a carryover from earlier times.

The term "horsepistol" was applied to early revolvers because they were made as cavalry and officer's pistols.
Bear in mind that there were large, muzzle loading pistols still being issued alongside revolvers for decades after revolvers came along.

Older, senior military officers have always tended to want to hold onto stuff they were familiar with when they were young men.

Thats actually what caused such horrific, senseless casualties in WW1.

Older generals who simply could not wrap their heads around the idea that the tactics they had used in their youths- 40, 50, 60 years in the past were obsolete and no longer worked on the battlefield.

So smoothbore, muzzle loading, single shot pistols were still being issued into the early American civil war....Despite being almost useless and generally discarded by troops in the field.





So the term "horsepistol" has stuck around a long time, and as generally been applied to large handguns in the modern age.

It generally means "martial or military handgun" these days.

It looks very cool.