Good morning. I'm awaiting a stock for an Early Dutch Fowler from The Rifle Shoppe. It's been about a year. Does anyone know of any other stock makers for this flintlock? Also wondering about who else may make a stock for the 1660s Fusil Ordinaire. Thanks.
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Sam squanch
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Get a stock blank and practice doing it yourself. It will be faster than waiting on the rifle shoppe.
With TRS stocks you’ll be getting a stock based off an original. That’s the upside. The downside could be that the stock doesn’t fit you well. Very authentic but no fun to shoot unless shooting blanks. If you or someone you hire builds from a blank, they could make the gun fit you. But will they study enough and have enough experience to “get it right?” And what is their backlog and when would it actually get delivered?
With niche items like this there are not going to be multiple suppliers who have something in stock.
With niche items like this there are not going to be multiple suppliers who have something in stock.
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You ordered a rifle shoppe kit? Have all the parts but the stock ? And want to order a different stock so you don’t have to wait.
I would wait for your stock, you’ll end up having to get a blank large enough, and have someone design a stock from scratch, that will take just as much time and MORE money than it will to wait for your stock.
Rich, thanks for sharing those points. That gives me the idea to make a try stock with a late 1600s profile to it.
FlinterNick,
Appreciate your advice. When I called TRS originally, they had the complete lock parts set and said they could complete the stock in 3-4 months. In the meantime, I sourced the other parts and barrel from other manufacturers based on a friend having the same gun, but he took the comb of the stock down a bit.
I'll continue to wait for the stock, just looking forward to it getting here.
I like the 1660s Fusil Ordinaire as well. The lock is quite similar to those found on Dutch guns of the period. That is why I asked about that gunstock.
Thanks again.
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The rifle shoppe tends to stock an heavy inventory of their big movers lick the long land brown Bess, Ferguson, 1803 rifle and dog lock guns.
Early Dutch and French guns tend to take longer because of the barrels, the barrels take a long time.
As far as the stocks are concerned, they take a long time to cut on a pantograph machine from their patterns, which sometimes have to be modified depending on the other parts.
It’s just a very time consuming transaction.
