Canoe gun.

[French Colonial]

How useful are these guns for hunting and target? Seems dubious at best.

Seem like a novelty to me honestly. If I just wanted a noisemaker I’ll grab a blinderbuss.

If you actually do any hunting out of a canoe, which I have in the distant past, you will realize that short barreled guns are almost a must.

If you have two people in the canoe, which I always did, the short barrel is easier to lay down in the boat while paddling, pointed in a safe direction of course, and easier to keep from sweeping your mate.

How long or short however is up for debate.

 

[andy52]

If you actually do any hunting out of a canoe, which I have in the distant past, you will realize that short barreled guns are almost a must.

If you have two people in the canoe, which I always did, the short barrel is easier to lay down in the boat while paddling, pointed in a safe direction of course, and easier to keep from sweeping your mate.

How long or short however is up for debate.

Yes, I have, and you are correct about the overall length of the gun. Most of my hunting from a canoe has been with cap locks or unmentionables.
Deer don't even notice a slow-moving canoe, I guess they think is just a log floating down stream.

 

[French Colonial]

Yes, I have, and you are correct about the overall length of the gun. Most of my hunting from a canoe has been with cap locks or unmentionables.
Deer don't even notice a slow-moving canoe, I guess they think is just a log floating down stream.

Same with squirrels.

 

[andy52]

I haven't hunted squirrels from a canoe, never found the need to do that I can get my limit sitting in my backyard.

 

[French Colonial]

I haven't hunted squirrels from a canoe, never found the need to do that I can get my limit sitting in my backyard.

We used to take canoe trips lasting a few days and squirrel was "what's for dinner".

 

[andy52]

We used to take canoe trips lasting a few days and squirrel was "what's for dinner".

I've done that but fish was usually for dinner.

 

[Rob M.]

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[markdwhite15]

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Purty as a bucket of hog liver
Looks kinda familiar.

 

[Rob M.]

Purty as a bucket of hog liver
Looks kinda familiar.

I was wonderin if one of those pics was Rosie

 

[stephenprops1]

I converted this old FIE muzzleloader to a canoe gun. 45 caliber.

 

[markdwhite15]

I was wonderin if one of those pics was Rosie

You make some really nice trade guns Rob, how long is your waiting list now?

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

You make some really nice trade guns Rob, how long is your waiting list now?

I was wondering that myself earlier today. I made number 27 on his list on 9/27/23. Decided not to pester the man lest I become number 57 by "accident".

 

[Rob M.]

You make some really nice trade guns Rob, how long is your waiting list now?

Thanks bud . They look better the further away ya get from them !! I'm not sure , I think like 15 folks or so ...but , like last time ... I had like 5 folks say ....they had already bought one , they'd changed their mind , they didnt have the $ , one guy was moving to Sweden ( no lie !! ) ... Stuff like that so ....who knows !

 

[WALT53]

Different strokes for different folks. Some of us like them short, light, and handy. My Rosie is only 5 pounds with a 26" 24 gauge barrel, but throws killing patters at 20 yards with 45 grains of ffg Goex and 7/8 oz of shot. Also easy to get though the green briar and multiflower rose thickets around here.

You can say that again light and handy and shoot as good as a36” barrel .

 

[WALT53]

I was wonderin if one of those pics was Rosie

Even I recognize Rosie

 

[andy52]

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nice.

 

[CyrusP]

Thanks bud . They look better the further away ya get from them !! I'm not sure , I think like 15 folks or so ...but , like last time ... I had like 5 folks say ....they had already bought one , they'd changed their mind , they didnt have the $ , one guy was moving to Sweden ( no lie !! ) ... Stuff like that so ....who knows !

I bought one in the meantime but I’m still on the list for an authentic Rob M original.

 

[Brettitt41]

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Love the red. She be purdy.

 

[Rob M.]

Love the red. She be purdy.

Thanks !

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Here is a very short rifled piece. It's from Europe, and .59 caliber.
A LOT of the forested areas in Europe away from a convenient coal source, were cut down to make charcoal, and then reforested by the time the flintlock came into its own. So what they had was very similar to what many of us experience, a second or third growth forest, with a lot of thickness in the underbrush, compared to an old-growth forest. I think this short and very handy flintlock rifle gave the original owner a heavy "punch" in a tight space, PLUS very good accuracy when it would've been sorely needed.

Note this wasn't "cut down" but made this short from the beginning.

Short Eastern European Flintlock Rifle

LD