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Lately I grab my .36, great for target, woodchucks and the like, light and agile. Robin

Not sure how much work you are willing to put in, but this one is cast from an original head as a pole axe and takes quite a bit of filing to clean it up and you would have to drill out the pole to make your pipe bowl. To my eye it is one of the nicest heads available. I believe I got it from...

This is a 16 ga. fowler I made for turkey hunting, and have found success with it. A Good reliable field piece. Maybe not exactly a gem, but it may help to keep this thread going. seen some awful nice guns here! Keep em com'n!!! Robin

You mean that 4f that is like 3f here? Still and all, that is one stout load for a .45, but the proof is in the pudding, which is your success. Nice job! Nice pup too!!!! I would love to see how that patterns out at 25 yards on a 3'X3' target. I'd do it myself but I don't have a .45 smoothie...

I have never heard of 'chestnut maple', apparently neither has Google. Do you have a reference for this specie? Always looking for a good wood. Robin

The socket of the hawk has a slight taper to it, wider at the top, the handle likewise is tapered to match that socket for a snug fit. All the ones I make are for camp use but also for throwing. If you plan to throw it a snug fit is all you need, a bad hit on the target butt and the handle will...

That is the smallest one I have ever seen, very cool!!!!! Someone versed in restoration could fix that to where you would have to look long and hard to see the fix, saving that, I wouldn't touch it. Robin

Depends on how much wood you plan to leave on the fore stock. you can knock it down to the thickness you want, say 1/8", by wrapping some 1/8" stock around a 3/8" rod, feed it into the thimble an pound it down. I have taken bar stock the approximate size of my planned forestock, drilled a 3/8"...

I'm not completely sure what I am seeing, but I have remedied the same problem by soldering on a piece of steel to the trigger flag and filing it down to where it engages the sear just where I want it. What gives me wonder is how it ever functioned in its current condition. Robin

I'm kind of in the same predicament büchsenmacher, I got a 40" .45 and a beautiful piece of curly maple, that with some judicious planning, I could make into a fullstock. Right now I'm torn between a Kuntz type Lehigh and a Vincent style fullstock flintlock. Kind of like being in the ice cream...

I agree Mike, hunt the way you want and enjoy the experience. It was just one of those idle thoughts that occured to me, kinda like people that are against cannablism but are all for organ transplants. Robin

Not to worry, they had plenty of time, the indian's just rode around in circles to be shot at will anyway. I know this to be true cuz I saw it in dozens of movies while growing up. Robin

I don't understand those that insist on being historically correct thinking chokes are okay, but plastic shot cups are a no no. Robin

There doesn't appear to be too much bending through the triggers area, some but not much, the major part of the curl is through the area where the main spring is and I think that wouldn't be too big a problem to bend that spring to fit, or even make one. Kind of cool looking. If I wasn't so...

Then you should do your own test. Air cool some brass, dunk cool some brass, you will get the same result. Robin

For a set trigger there is this option. https://www.trackofthewolf.com/list/Item.aspx/919/1 If you are set on the double trigger type you will probably have to modify one of the existing brands. It can be done. Robin

I also think you will improve your accuracy and a consistancy of accuracy. I have helped out guys with Traditions guns and whatever else I find fault with, they always seem to have excellent barrels capable of very good accuracy. Robin

The fact is that left handed flintlock guns were made in the era. I have several original to me left hand rifles and fowlers and need no justification for them. Robin

Maybe they meant hysteric. Robin

I have never taken a turkey with a modern shotgun. Of all the configurations I experimented with over the years in non jug choked barrels the SkyChief set up works the best, bar none. Of course I have my theories as to why that is, which I will keep to myself, because is just that, theory. I...