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What size gouge?

What two or three would you recommend for a Pecatonica NW Trade Gun?

I have this gun in hand and need to get some chisels together to begin. Does anyone have experience with this specific gun and what chisels and gouges I will need? Also, I just need the chisels to allow me to finish this gun without breaking the bank. Looking for any other tool recommendations...

Tallpine recommended rumble yesterday. He lives nearby

This is my first gun to build. I have a Pecatonica NW Trade Gun 20 Gauge. Supposedly it is an easier build but not Kibler easy. I am looking for tips, links, and videos to figure out how to get this build put together. I have searched without success so far as to how to put this gun together. I...

Thanks. I did a search but was not entering right wording.

I have a Pecatonica NW Trade Gun (20 gauge) coming and I need to get the minimum basics to shoot it before I get it built. What is the bottom line equipment that you guys recommend? I know there is a lot of wisdom here and I am sure guys have bought more than what they needed or wished they got...

Someone mentioned earlier that shorter lengths came out about then? To your knowledge when did the 30" and 36" rade guns come out?

So the "Chief Gun" trade gun came out later around 1830?

Trade guns got shorter for a fact. I just did not know when and why. I’m trying to get my facts straight about the matter. I’m not trying to change things. However, it seems some want to change the fact that it happened eventually. This is a simple conversation about the fact of the matter. I...

But they did it. I’m trying to figure it out. The whys and when’s.

Reading is as important as math. I already admitted my fault. You can try again as well.

The question was simple. I’m trying to understand not change history.

It’s not. I misread 8 as I posted.

I misread eighty for eight.I gotcha!

So 30" trade guns existed around 1760 ish?

I am mainly wondering about smoothbores. How early were the natives/Settlers chopping them down?

How early were flintlocks being chopped down to shorter lengths?

My family lived in Virginia at the beginning of 1700s and by the end of the 1700s were in Spanish Louisiana. They remained in LA until early 1800s and came to Texas. What type of trade rifles would have been around the Louisiana area in late 1700's that I could build from a kit today? Where...

I have researched some about the fur trade in SE Texas / Louisiana area. Nota lot of documentation but a few letters from Spanish/Mexican officers concerned about the amount of poaching on the border from French and a few English. The Spanish colonials made illegal trade with others across the...