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    How to tweak or not to tweak.

    I’d not bend the buttplate unless I was sure that it was twisted. Even then unless severe I’d be working on the inletting. I’ve never fitted a buttplate to a CNC shaped stock so might be missing something.
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    How to tweak or not to tweak.

    I’m sure Jim’s team can help you. Is it cocked or does it just look that way? If you do any actual inletting, do it with the buttplate on straight.
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    Barrels that are not 12L14 steel

    Rayl barrels are used by many top shooters. Some feel they need a bit of a break-in. I had a .50 chunk gun with a Rayl barrel for about a year and it shot awfully well. It had placed well at big chunk shoots. When I moved to Vermont the club-mate who sold it to me bought it back. Not many nearby...
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    The ideal smoothbore hunting bag??

    This is a great question. There’s a lot of fumbling around in reloading a shot load. I think a bag with a small block for holding paper cartridges (some powder, some shot) and a spot for wads would work best for me. Right now I’m carrying a powder horn with measure attached, a shot snake, and...
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    Barrels that are not 12L14 steel

    Rice made and is maybe still making lightweight smoothbore barrels of (I think) 4140.
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    Got a jake this morning

    Yep!
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    Got a jake this morning

    Nope, I lost the spark!
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    Got a jake this morning

    It’s based on 2 New England fowlers in Grinslade’s book on colonial fowlers. These have symmetrical double cheekpieces and unique carving resembling nautilus shells. Barrel- 39”, 20 ga Colerain turkey choke. Lock was assembled from The Rifle Shoppe castings of a Wilson English lock. I formed the...
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    Got a jake this morning

    It’s close! Beard was 5.25”. The nosecaps on several related club butt fowlers are unusual and are pinned to the front underlug. The nosecap must be removed to remove the barrel. Tricky to form but when done right it snaps into place firmly.
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    Got a jake this morning

    Turkeys have been scarce here this spring. Finally got a jake this morning using my newly built club butt fowler with a 20 ga Colerain turkey choke barrel.
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    Case colored locks

    Brilliant colors!
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    Flint travel on frizzen

    Cabin Creek works on locks. Similar to getting a car or furnace fixed, it’s not cheap.
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    Flint travel on frizzen

    That strike position is ok. You could move the flint forward 1/8” if it still would not touch the frizzen at half cock. A couple things could be causing the frizzen to not open. 1) weak mainspring (new mainspring or greater preload by opening this one up - requires re-hardening and tempering) 2)...
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    My second turkey ever!

    Fun, isn’t it!
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    Nipple wiggling

    That’s right in the danger zone. I’d solve it before shooting. If the nipple strips out under pressure, it could blow the hammer right back at the shooter.
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    RCA 52 stock template

    Good point Dave. In my rendition of RCA #41 (gun 41 in volume 1 of Rifles of Colonial America by George Shumway) I used the Chambers Germanic lock and removed about 1/8” of the lower rear edge of the “banana” but then had to re-create the edge molding in that area.
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    RCA 52 stock template

    This will be an exciting build and should shoot comfortably if you allow enough drop at the nose of the comb. Plain maple or some curl, or something else?
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    RCA 52 stock template

    I usually adapt the profile to make the gun fit me or the customer. It’s surprising that one can get a varieties of profiles to cooperate with needed drop at comb and heel. The outstanding architectural features of this gun to me are the swelling of the wrist as it blends into the buttstock, the...
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    RCA 52 stock template

    Rifles of Colonial America by George Shumway is a book commonly abbreviated as RCA. It’s a resource most builders of colonial and Federal period longrifles, working from blanks, have used for decades. The guns are numbered in the 2 volume series, making it convenient for discussion. Gun #52 is...
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    Loading Preference

    We are talking birdshot here
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