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See you at the spring show?

Bellingham.

Very nice

Very helpful. Thank you. The one I'm getting is engraved on the barrel. Green River Forge No.1. With 36"barrel. I'll post some picture when it gets here.

Thank you. I had heard of his guns before but this will be there first one I have handled. A friend of mine knows his guns very well and knew Frank. I am looking forward to shooting it and seeing how well I can make it do what it was intended to do, hit plumb center. LC

Thanks, I ordered some 1” French ambers.

I talked to him yesterday. He is a very good guy to talk to. Lots of good information and knowledge. I have no doubts that the gun will get here in good time and condition. Thanks for the good words. Do you have any thought on the size of the flint for this gun? I have been told that 7/8”...

I'm planning on. The wait is killing me lol.

Thanks, I feel like I’m bringing back home to the Northwest.

I just picked up a Green River Forge NW trade gun. I know a bit of the history of the builder. Does anyone have any further insight into Frank Straight or the guns in general? I hope to have it in my hands next week and will post a picture when it gets here. I am looking forward to making...

Thank you..good to know. Apparently Green River Forge was started in the 70s. Changed hands a couple of times before it closed up shop. I will post a picture of the gun when it shows up.

I just picked up a Green River Forge NW trade gun. Anyone here have any thoughts or experience with Frank Straights guns? This one is unusual in that it is blued instead of browned. But it is nice looking tight gun...

Here's a question for the Western MM Would a fowler, not a NW Trade gun, be acceptable for a western Rendezvous? LC

Not that I would, but why wouldn’t they be? Were the ones from the 1930s any different from the 1830s? Looks like they figured they had a good thing going for them.

I had no idea that they sold them so late. I have seen one from the 1920s....Great to know. I am looking at building a TVM Fowler..Anyone have an opinion on these guns?

That was my thought. I know that they sold them in Africa into the 20th century. Thanks for the history lesson. By the early 1880s most of the big herds of buffalo we gone down here. I've never heard about the northern herds in Canada. I read someone question that pronghorn could be taken with...

A question I have is this, if the smoothbore was not wanted by either the MM or tribes, why were the Northwest Trade Guns still being made and sold into the 1860s by HBC?

Even with my 16 ga model 12s I have dove/quail loads and pheasant loads. My target load for my 54 cal. Santa Fe Hawken is 70 grains. For hunting it’s 110 grains. You are correct in lighter loads vs heavy loads. Excellent point

I can say that 75% of all the game I've killed in the last 45 years was killed in smooth bore range and the other 25% just outside that range. Ive never felt handicapped with a long bow. I doubt I will with a smooth bore.