Again, my copy is back in Louisiana at the moment, but want to say that there were cites of specifications of trade guns to be made with rear sights.
Until I get it back, will have to just leave it without citation.
Building ME a NW Trade Gun ! :)
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Until I get it back, will have to just leave it without citation.
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Yeah , Carolina Guns / Type Gs were made with rear sights .... The vast majority of trade guns did not have rear sights , they were fowling pieces , and NW guns did not have rear sights from the makers .
See the grumpy Gunsmith #46 on how to avoid this.
Yeah, I had a gun built for me about 40 years ago by a great builder and the front bolt had a notch in it!
Khufu
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and that great builder would likely tell you that it was so you had to pull the ramrod out to remove the lock bolt, a safety thing.
a master builder has nothing to prove, and would just say, I had too much coffee and was in a rush.
a master builder has nothing to prove, and would just say, I had too much coffee and was in a rush.
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My fusil has a notch in the front lock bolt. There is a groove in the lock bolt to let ramrod pass under bolt. Notch on bolt head indicates position of groove on bolt shaft.
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Oh !! LOL ! I've had to do that before too ...but usually that is from the ramrod going UP a bit too much and making the web thin during drilling for the ramrod ....it happens .
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Forge ye ole trigger guard ..... Still got to form the finials , early ones on this TG ......phone is not co operating at all .
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Wow ! She's come a long ways ! Trimmed the side plate up and roughed in the rear mortices a bit , drilled TG for all screws , fit it and attached it , put curl on trigger and set it , of course , roughed in the stock today ...put lines on where I will work the wrist and comb , drilled the touch hole ....she is a working gun right now ! I could take her hunting ! I will VDO her first shot later ... I need a sear spring for it too, on its way . Later I will make the ramrod pipes and fit and pin them , then rough in the mortices forward , then a front blade on .... make a tapered ramrod . She will probably stay " in the rough " stage for awhile till I get caught up with some things but I really have to have her in shooting / hunting condition soon . She can be shot now but I need the other stuff done too I mentioned for it to be hunting ready . Been seeing turkey on my coffee trips !! 
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Do you fit the tang then drill/mark the bolt hole on the bottom of the tang from the bottom trigger side?
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Exactly ...
Did you tap and install a vent liner or just drill a touch hole?
I will need to do that to fit my smoothbore barrel into my Traditions Kentucky stock.
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If you have a trigger plate you can drill down from tang to the plate ... Either will work
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I just drilled a touch hole .
