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Nice! I finished up my Baker a little while ago and am anxious to get out and shoot it. Of coarse I had to watch Sharpes Rifles again!

I have seen many 18th century German guns that were blued.

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I wondered if maybe a wrench of some sort was made for it. I'm sure that would foul pretty quickly. I know nothing of its history. I bought it from an antique shop in Britain. It has been used quite a bit, judging from the frizzen wear.

No, it's a mount for an 18th century ACOG. Just kidding.....

Yes, it's just grooved so that you can see through it. This definitely came before the Ferguson design on the evolutionary scale. What's interesting is that before Turvey died he was making Ferguson like rifles with a screw breech/trigger guard.

That's not the rear sight. The notch at the end of the breech serves as the rear sight. Also, it could be loaded as a regular muzzle loader if you didn't want to breech load it.

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Turvey died in 1745, so this precedes the Ferguson rifle by a few decades. The 34" barrel is approx. .75 caliber and rifled with an approx. twist of 1/48". This is a very nice handling rifle and I'll bet was quite the shooter in its day. It uses the same principle as a Ferguson in that the...

I tried to add a video of this, but it was too large for the site. If you are on FB look for it on the Flintlock Era page. I added a bunch of pictures and a video of how it loads.

Here is a Wm Turvey breechloading rifle.

Thank you very much for this write up Dave. I'm trying to wrap up my Winter projects and this article is very timely!

Really you could just make up a ramrod on it with brass tips. On my swivel breech the rod is tapered, being .349 on the top and .265 on the bottom. It is for a .50 caliber gun, but I would guess that it might have the same thimbles.

I could probably go on all night, but this is my latest favorite. The 'scoped' Baker rifle from the movie Napoleon. A beautiful Baker rifle, but wtf is going on with that scope????

Great rifle!

😁 I bet you would be right! But the one set that never arrived was from across the pond.

Another Winter project finished! Finally finished up my 1805 TRS Baker rifle. I started this almost two years ago, but most of the time was waiting for the lock castings and a couple of minor parts to arrive from two different parts suppliers. One set of castings never has arrived. The patchbox...

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You are absolutely right. Now that you point it out it's pretty obvious. I have several originals to use for patterns too. In my mind I think, well it's done and it'll stay that way. But I know the way my mind works and it'll drive me crazy and I'll slim them down, lol.

One thing I do like about winter is that it gives me a little spare time to catch up on some of my projects. I just finished this 1769 Pattern Short Land Brown Bess from the Rifle Shoppe. Now I will finish out the TRS Baker rifle I started a while back.