Joel/Calgary
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edward marshall smoothbore
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I noticed the edward marshall was a bit bulkier than the mark silver or other rilfles. I'm not looking to win contests. Just shoot some dinner and have fun. Do you guys feel the early germanic lock will be reliable enough or should I bite the bullet and get the mark silver and load it on an angle. Remember I'm on the short side. If I recall the average height at the times these guns were made was around my height of five foot five inches
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Joe, another one of Jim's offerings you might check out his his smoothrifle which comes with a 46" 20 ga./.62 cal barrel. I believe it is oct to round and has a rear sight. Most true smoothbores or fowlers had a much longer barrel and larger caliber than rifles of the time period. In reading Shumway's Rifles of Colonial America many of the so called "rifles" in his book did have an oct to round smoothbore barrel. However many had rear sights and a cheek piece which were characteristic of rifles not fowlers thus "smoothrifle". (I'm not sure where the term origionated.) Or you could buy a rifle for deer and a fowler for birds and otherwise. If ya can pull that one off with the missus let us in on the secret. :grin: :grin:
