Best Smoothbore Ever!

[taylorh]

I'm sitting here, a little green, reading about all the great gifts some of your spouses gave you for Christmas. Suddenly the new tie and socks I got are looking a little less lustrous. But not to worry, a gun show is coming up and I'll be there wandering around doing what I like best, shoping for smokepoles! Lets pretend for a moment that all of us received the perfect smoothbores for Christmas... what would it be, and why would it be perfect?
Taylor in Texas
:hatsoff:
Happy New Year

 

[Swampman]

An early British Military Musket. They are handsome, durable, accurate, shoot a large enough ball to kill any big game, and shoot enough shot to kill any small game.

 

[taylorh]

When you say early, what era are you speaking of and what caliber do you mean?

 

[Swampman]

This is the description the Rifle Shop has on their web site of what I had in mind. I also like their Pre-Land Pattern.

"This is a musket from Queen Anne’s reign (1702-1714), that shows the blending of the Dutch and English styling into what would later become the Long Land Pattern. Furniture is all iron, the butt plate is bulbous, the thimbles are fancy, the stock shows a minor curve from wrist to toe. The lock plate is marked W. Predden. Thanks to John Bosh for his assistance on this project. It has a 46" tapered round barrel, available in .75 or .77 caliber. The lock plate measures 6 1/2" x 13/16". The throw of the cock is 1 7/8"."

 

[robinghewitt]

Durs Egg's apprentice piece, the gun that shot Nelson, one of those Mary Rose pattern muskets they found lying about in the Tower collection or an original arquebus perhaps? I'm not fussy :rotf:

 

[benvenuto]

I like that one too!
I like the idea of a really early (1655) french flintock fusil with the very long, roundfaced lock.
Or a similar period english snaphaunce musket, the type with the old type lock and barrel restocked in a more "modern" french influenced stock.

 

[J.M.]

After going squirrel hunting with my .62 TVM fowler, I think I need something a tad more precise. I'm dreaming of a .28 guage smoothie, 42'bbl, jug choke at about modified choke, and a drift adjustable rear sight. That should help me knock them out of the tops of the trees! Still on the fence as to whether it would be another fowler or a smooth rifle. Nice slim lines, simple gun with a dark finish, trimmed in brass. If I talk myself into it, maybe I'll see if anybody has something for me, cant depend on Santa!

 

[akapennypincher]

Caywood Wilson 28 Gauge Smoothbore :thumbsup:

 

[Toomuch_36]

A double flint fowler.
A long time dream of mine.

Toomuch
.........
Shoot Flint

 

[marcstephen]

:bow: :bow: [url] http://photobucket.com/albums...ocks2/?action=view&current=fowlinggunweb8.jpg[/url]

Marc Findlay

Luke 1:79

 

[Rusty Old Gunns]

This is My favorite.

Its the 20 Gauge Double I had Richard Smith from Oxford Fla. Make for me last season.

Its 20 Gauge double both barrels are cylinder bore

Gotta Love it!

 

[Musketeer]

Mine would be an original Long Land Bess that had been stashed away with TLC since new and is still in pristine original condition. :shocked2: Seeing as how that's a completely ridiculous request, I'd settle for a Caywood English Fowler in 12 ga. with a HIGHLY flamed maple stock. :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

I am partial to my 20 bore English fowler, but my ideal birding piece would be a sixteen gauge with thirty inch barrels with cylinder bores. Weight to be under seven pounds and flint ignition. Pretty much a Joe Manton gun--that would do it for me.

 

[Leonredbeard]

Texan,
Here is Der Schmiser, my yeager, with his .20 gauge smoothbore barrel installed. This one has won many a claybird and clayrabbit contest for me. I know, I should have used the flash, it would have given a better picture.

Here is a picture of the bore.

YHWH bless.
volatpluvia

 

[marcstephen]

This is My favorite.

Its the 20 Gauge Double I had Richard Smith from Oxford Fla. Make for me last season.

Its 20 Gauge double both barrels are cylinder bore

Gotta Love it!

SHARP!!!!!
:thumbsup:

Marc Findlay

Luke 1:79

 

[paulvallandigham]

I am partial to what I have. A custom, American Fowler, in 20 ga., 30 inch barrel, Left hand flintlock, of course, with a steel buttplate and iron furniture, that has been case hardened for the colors. No carving, no patch box, and not brass to shine and spook the game. I have front and rear sites, that are fixed. The gun takes lines from the French fusil, the English fowler, the German jaeger, but has a thoroughly American approach to its lines and stock. It swings well on birds, and holds well for deer. I am still playing around with patch thicknesses so I can't tell you how accurate it is, but so far it is shooting as well as many shotguns I have fired using shotgun slugs. No problem hitting a six inch target offhand at 50 yds. Groups from a rest are down at 3 inches and under. I think it will do better.