Carolina Gun / Iron mounted

[scratcherky]

Great looking rifle! How does she shoot?

 

[Hatman/2nd line]

5.97 pds. without ramrod .... 48" , 20 ga. barrel

Wow! A trade gun under 6 lb.s and the color is just great! Congratulations.....again!

 

[Rob M.]

Thanks bud . Mine are still more heavy than the original but I get em as close as I dare too . This gun is light and the balance is great . No heavy barrel feel to it at all like most long barreled guns are .

Wow! A trade gun under 6 lb.s and the color is just great! Congratulations.....again!

 

[Rob M.]

Great looking rifle! How does she shoot?

Smoothbore .. Ive only shot her to proof and to check for speed of ignition so far . Round ball shootin will be soon !

 

[mikesto44]

Course you all know talented people can shoot right or left handed.... So lock position really shouldn't matter.. Never know when that critter will show up, or which side of the tree they will walk by... Just saying.

 

[Rob M.]

Course you all know talented people can shoot right or left handed.... So lock position really shouldn't matter.. Never know when that critter will show up, or which side of the tree they will walk by... Just saying.

I learned how to shoot and handle a flintlock from a left handed rifle .My Buddy Lew taught me on his south paw rifle then lent it to me for a spell . Got powder burns in my left forearm to prove it too ! LOL

 

[mikesto44]

Rob same here...that's why I learned to always wear a long sleeve shirt.....

 

[Rob M.]

Rob same here...that's why I learned to always wear a long sleeve shirt.....

It cut a trough through my arm so shirt wouldn't have helped , fat guys don't wear sleeves in the summer anyway , LOL ! I learned a valuable lesson . Flintlocks kill ( muzzle ), wound ( recoil ) and maim ( out touch hole ). true true

 

[mikesto44]

Wow ....! That sucks..

 

[Rob M.]

Wow ....! That sucks..

Oh , its funny now , makes a good story now 32 years later ! LOL !

 

[CuNosecap]

Great tutorial, thanks for all the documented effort and hard work.

 

[WALT53]

Oh , its funny now , makes a good story now 32 years later ! LOL !

Yeah sometimes when you look back you makes you wonder don’t it .
But it would be nice to be young again and know what we know now.
Or would it lol.

 

[Rob M.]

She'll be headed east soon .... Shot her today . She was shootin off the right too much so had to keep takin the barrel out and bending her left , stuck her under the cabin and tried to lift the cabin , LOL ... Got her shootin ta center . Walked her right in . Fast ignition .

 

[Rob M.]

Pointin where I was aiming ...at bottom of the dot ... Patched .600 round ball. 60 gr. 2F . I really liked shootin it , hope he does . That Queen Anne lock is fast ! She's dandy !

 

[Rob M.]

Wanna start doin this for each build ....Here's the start picture and the finished picture side by side , ought to be neat. . Hard to believe its the same gun in both pictures !

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Oh man that looks sweet! Or ‘wicked awesome’ as only your Cousin from Boston could say it!

 

[Beaverman2]

It cut a trough through my arm so shirt wouldn't have helped , fat guys don't wear sleeves in the summer anyway , LOL ! I learned a valuable lesson . Flintlocks kill ( muzzle ), wound ( recoil ) and maim ( out touch hole ). true true

I still have a tattoo on my left pinky (half burnt powder particles, under the skin from the first Flinter I ever shot), learned to have that hand far enough from the lock!

 

[Rob M.]

Yep ! They'll teach ya quick ! LOL!

I still have a tattoo on my left pinky (half burnt powder particles, under the skin from the first Flinter I ever shot), learned to have that hand far enough from the loc

 

[Tradbow]

Beautiful gun. Just makes me want a Carolina gun that much more.

 

[Rob M.]

Beautiful gun. Just makes me want a Carolina gun that much more.

Thanks bud .... I know , right ?! I want one one day too !!