The Hall I'm currently restocking has quite a history. It is one of hundreds cut down for Calvary issue by the Confederates. This one made from pieces of other Halls -1855 trigger bow, a piece of strap iron and some musket barrel bands. The original stock is 1824 Hall with sides from another Hall, horse glued and pegged together. Its barrel has been shorten to 20". The barrel is of S. North Manufacture, stamped...NWP. The receiver is Harpers Ferry 1832, altered to percussion. The hammer is from 1843 S. North carbine. The new stock blanks are from Dunlap Stocks. I'm working a few Halls. This one is the most pressing and the one that's furthest along, so I took some images of it to post. Because this one is so pieced together, it requires a lot of one off inletting work. The trigger guard gave me the most trouble - its not straight and sharply curved to follow the pieced together old stock. I've got about 30 hours in this now. Hope to have it done by early Jan. I've taken some pics. I hope they can fill in where words can't. Note in the pics the drastic difference between an unaltered flint Hall to what these cut down ones ended up looking like. Why I'm I doing this work? Well, this particular gun keeps showing up in my life. First as a restoration, then a repair and now as a restock. The current owner wants to shoot it. This is not a problem. The metal parts are in sound condition, but the stock with its 148 year old horse glue joints would surely break; hence, the new stock. Also, what makes this challenging - I can't ruin any of the original patina while doing the restocking. I'll post some pics once it's done. Finally, how do I know it was an 1824 stock? The 1824 dated Halls were the first machine made mass produced firearm. The first few hundred 24's were checked and rechecked to assure the system worked. To this end Hall stamped the wood on the butt with a schematic image of the stock shaping and inletting procedures as it passed thru at each stage. Each shape represents a part that had been properly inlet and that it actually fits. If you have an 1824 Hall, carefully remove the butt plate to see if these stamps are there .G.S.
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