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In the old Cromwell movie with Sir Alec Guinness and Richard Harris, the cannons emit these tremendous plumes of fire and black smoke which looks like burning gasoline. In Cold Mountain painfully obvious rubber bayonets flopping around. And it kills me when an arrow in the back or a random sword...

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I'll take it. PM Sent.

I'll take it! PM sent

How does the upper end of the sling attach? What does the triggerguard finial look like?

My mother has an antique folding table which I think is made of Brazilwood, and that thing is heavy!

Thank you very much! All the credit however must go to Dale Nincehelser, who is part Scottish himself for this build!

I don't actually have it yet, I will update the post when I get a chance to fire it. I will give it a Gaelic name when the name occurs to me.

I have to agree, Dale does fantastic work!

Bobby Hoyt

Bobby Hoyt

Well folks she is ready! This is the Scottish National Longarm that Dale Nincehelser agreed to build for me. I am very happy with how this project turned out. Let me know what you all think. Tacksman

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This is "Long Tom" a flintlock smoothbore which belonged to Buncombe County pioneer Daniel Smith, on display at the display at the Smith-McDowell House Museum in Asheville, North Carolina. Despite often being described as a "rifle" it is in fact a smoothbore, which appears to be around 10 gauge...

Barrel lenght?

Your best bet is going to be seeing if Bobby Hoyt or Jim Carpenter will make you a barrel, and finding a builder to build you a gun with it. There is a brass barrel rifle in Rifles of Colonial America to work off if you want.

Still looking for one of these.