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Musket stuff
Grunt:
Here's some more musket stuff. All the smooth bores shoot a .615 ball. The top is an English Fowler I traded for a Browning 12 auto in around 1982. It was built by an englishman, Kit Ravenshire. The bottom canoe gun is a cutdown Navy Arms Charleville and the pistol is a NA Charleville also. I built all the bags, horns and stuff.
The rifles are a matched set .25 and a .50 southern mountain Bean family style with all handforged iron hardware built by Dave Motto for me as a trade for some $ and me doing all the chores on Dave's farm for two weeks. Learned I didn't want to be a farmer. I made all the horns, bags, etc. The round balls are a .615 and a .25. I have owned these guns for damn near thirtyfive years and all of them have made meat.
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Timo:
Love all you home spun stuff ! Really fond of those Mt rifles. I have a barrel on order right now for one of such.Got my wood already and having a custom lock made. My buddys got some great patterns so really looking forward to it.
Here's a few pics of my last build. 54 cal plains rifle. I made all the furniture for this one, and Hot bleached it. Also made the percussion lock into a flint. Not the best job on the lock, but she throws a great spark!
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Grunt:
Fine work, you know your stuff. Lewis and Clark carried a 1803 Harpers Ferry 50 cal half stock flintlock. Your build looks like the transition rifle, half stock for horseback, a forerunner of the Hawken.
riarcher:
:o WOWed with some really nice stuff here! ;D
Dane:
These weapons are all very inspiring. I have to get back to building the NW Trade Gun kit I got late last year. No pics yet, but I will post once i build her. I'm also going to get a medieval handgonne, which should be a lot of fun, plus easy to clean. Cleaning these things is never fun.
Dane
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