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I am looking for suggestions on builders of a "correct" French Tulle Fusil De Chasse. After some searches here, I have looked at John Donelson's website. Any other suggestions? PM me if you would prefer not to post on the thread itself.

Thanks in advance.
Dan
 
Most any builder should be able to make one if you request the correct parts, 44" barrel .62 -.58 bore, Colerain makes one a bit bigger than 1" at the breech wich is probably the minimum for French guns, but the .58 is a bit heavy as it is the same profile as the .62 but will still make a gun that comes in at 8 lbs. or less. Walnut stock, Davis modified Tulle lock or L&R trade gun lock, furniture as shown in Hamiltons "Colonial Fontier Guns" and Bouchards book on The Tulle in New France, ( Bouchards pg 33 is likley the best choice for matching parts for a circa 1730 gun) iron furniture is the most likley choice for the cowsfoot style. the parts set as sold by TOW is as good any, but a builder can probably get parts else where if the builder wants to go a different direction I would suggest studying the books above then find another builder, this pertains only to the Fusil De Chase pied De vauche style stock, for a straight stock Fusil the Davis parts set with the 48" barrel wins hands down.If something other than the above is recommended request the reference sources that trump the above mentioned books and their gun pics/parts/descriptions. Following the above will result in about as correct of a Fusil from the town of Tulle you can have from stock parts,Bouchard shows drawings and gives the factory specs for the guns in different time periods plus a great deal of Tulle gun evolution history, this source is hard to beat at least IMHO.
 
I f you are feeling lucky and have some time to wait, I'd throw the dice and get the parts from The Rifle Shoppe.
 
I failed to mention the Rifle Shoppe,with parts cast from originals and agree about the roll of the dice from what I have heard about wait time.
 
Thanks tg and Mike for the replies and to great information. I appreciate the help.
Dan
 
A gunsmith friend waited for over a year to get a cock from the Rifle Shoppe to re-convert a Nock lock back to flint for me, and it was the wrong one when it did arrive. So there was another wait. Their parts are correct, but.......
 
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