Brace of Heavy British Dragoon Pistols by David Crisalli

In 1974, while I was a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, I had a chance to go to Williamsburg for a couple of days. The stands of arms in the governor's mansion so impressed me that I have had visions of owning a wall full of Brown Bess muskets and Dragoon pistols ever since. Never able to afford an original, I built a Dragoon for myself in 2007. Nothing fancy at all - just a huge but very graceful pistol with a .62 bore. I enjoyed shooting it so much that I recently built a second one. Both are assembled from available castings and scrap walnut left over from rifle stocks.

Copy and photos supplied by David Crisalli.