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What caliber and style for you?
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My personal favorite style is the Early Virginia in .54. Mine has a 44 inch Colerain swamped barrel.
I’ve decided on a Lancaster pattern with a Pennsylvania 44” colerain swamped barrel in .54 caliber with a chambers golden age flint lock. Most of the parts are on order.
#4 Curley maple stock and iron furniture. I’m excited. Another off hand dream boat.
#4 Curley maple stock and iron furniture. I’m excited. Another off hand dream boat.
Caliber is so much a function of intended use. For me, the .54 is perfect medicine for our larger northern whitetails. All my deer rifles are .54.
In flinters, I am drawn to the "Early Virginia" style, or "Colonial" as those are many times referred to. For comfort, I like the wider, flat buttplates.
That said, the Isaac Haines (Lancaster) I have, which is to replicate RCA #81, is lighter weight, a beauty to look at, and shoots very well. Dave Person did a fantastic job of recreating #81 for me.
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In flinters, I am drawn to the "Early Virginia" style, or "Colonial" as those are many times referred to. For comfort, I like the wider, flat buttplates.
That said, the Isaac Haines (Lancaster) I have, which is to replicate RCA #81, is lighter weight, a beauty to look at, and shoots very well. Dave Person did a fantastic job of recreating #81 for me.
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Recreation:
Incredible figuring of butt stock wood in first pic.
I be likin that Mel Gibson horn.
Guess I'm the odd man out. If I were to have one built, it would be an Ohio Vincent full stock .36 caliber flintlock. Of course that is because it is what I learned to shoot a flintlock with my grandfather's original and a .36 is the only caliber I don't currently have ( with the exception of pistols) and I don't hunt any longer with the exception of a squirrel or two from my deck.
I like .50 and .54 cal. in the Lancaster pattern and the work of Isaac Haines.
I believe Mike Brooks said that stock wood came out of a root. He said it was very hard wood. I had never seen figure quite like that before and could find no matching examples on the web.
I believe you are correct, seems to me I've read that post.
That tree was doing something really wild and crazy, that's for sure!!
You are a lucky and well-funded man!
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