Club butt fowlers

[Magungo1066]

Who has them? How do they handle? Do you hunt with yours?

 

[Keb]

I finished this one recently. 11ga.

 

[Trot]

While not really a fowler, I have a club butt Leonard Day Dutch trade gun. I was a little leery of the shape at first, but I have to say it is the most natural feeling gun I have when shouldering it.

 

[Robby]

This is a Hudson Valley Fowler patterned after on the book "Flintlock Fowlers". I don't know if it would be considered a 'club butt', but it is very heavy in the butt.

It's a bit heavy for traipsing the fields. With the weight towards the rear it swings east and west like a feather and I use it for wing shooting and trap.
Robby

 

[Capt. Jas.]

I finished this one recently. 11ga.

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What lock is that Keb?

 

[Woody Morgan]

What lock is that Keb?

I was wondering too. It's a brute.

wm

 

[Musketeer]

Looks very much like a first model Bess lock, like the Willits from Track, minus the stampings. A great looking lock in any case.

 

[Keb]

It is the 1746 Willits lock minus the markings.

 

[toot]

I have one made by DOSS WHITE, that I bought from TOTW, 4 yrs ago for $2000.00+. it is a DOGLOCK, and 80 bore! it came with an 80 bore mold. they are hard to come by, also. it is almost to pretty to shoot. but I didn't buy it to hang up and look at it. I have shot it maybe 60.70 times so far. it is a blast to shoot. pun intended!!

 

[Bon Sauvage]

80 bore.....I thought that meant 80 balls to the pound, like a 12 bore has 12 balls to the pound.

 

[Zonie]

80 bore.....I thought that meant 80 balls to the pound, like a 12 bore has 12 balls to the pound.

IMO, it still does. A 80 bore would be shooting a .385 diameter ball which weighs about 87.5 grains.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

I have a bunch, love them, they mount to the shoulder extremely well (due to balance) and carry well, for their length, as the continuously tapered barrels lighten up the muzzle end, even thought the barrel lengths are 54” and 60”.

Here’s my big 75 by Jackie Brown, where I have since replaced the brass furniture with steel/iron.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

They may handle well but only a Frenchman could design something that looked like them!

CK

 

[PathfinderNC]

Certainly are the oddest looking things to me. Not very graceful in line but somehow beautiful.

 

[Alexander Efremenko]

A French boucanier,Bouma jersey, off a piece in the Maine historical Society.
56 inch barrel, .69 caliber

 

[rick1964]

20 gauge. 54” taper Rd barrel. Ken. Netting

 

[rickystl]

I can't claim ownership of one, but great looking guns posted here.

Rick