The lighting got better so I took another photo and updated it.
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Another Recreation
- Thread starter The Crisco Kid
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Pete G
76 Cal.
“I” Fordney is Jacob Fordney.
Great looking rifle 
Right you are! Thank you.
I found additional photos of the same rifle shown in post #17 online right here: Jacob Fordney Percussion Rifle
In this case, the seller attributes Jacob Fordney by name, which the other seller did not. We note that Jacob had a contract to supply rifles for the tribes to the US Government in 1837. However, I'm not totally convinced that this original (as shown in post #17) is one of them. I suppose there might have been some variation among the rifles he supplied, but images of the ones I have seen show full octagon barrels and patchboxes. I think it is possible that this original may have been restocked around a Fordney barrel, although you would not necessarily expect a checkered wrist, a Late Lancaster characteristic, from a frontier gunsmith, although the existence of re-stocked rifles is well documented.
I don't want to hijack this thread! Maybe I already did, in which case, I apologize. The ultimate point was that The Crisco Kid's "recreation" would have been right at home on the western frontier.
Best regards,
Notchy Bob
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