French type C fusil

[Okwaho]

For about two years now I have been urging folks to consider the R E Davis Fusil fin kit [NOT the Type D kit} but to little avail.Well it's still the best one out in my estimation although one could get the TOW Fusil de chasse kit with the 44" barrel and IRON mounts and do some cosmetic work including cleaning up the lock and taking off some wood such as under the lock.

Ed Rayl has built a great barrel with the sighting rib for this kit and as I said it's far and away the best kit of which I'm aware.
I don't know the origin of the gun which served as the pattern for this kit and I'm not sure whether the original was French or Liegeoise. I have an early 18th century Liegeoise Fusil fin and last year I took it down to Toulouse to compare with a partially completed Davis Fusil fin and the two guns were virtually two peas in a pod.While I don't know if the pattern gun for the kit is French or Liegeoise I think it as well as my gun was sent over to New France in the early 18th century.As Hamilton and Bouchard have posited I think that many of the fusils fin were manufactured in Liege.
at any rate I highly recommend the Davis Fusil fin kit which after some cosmetic work on the stock and lock could be a spectacular gun.
Tom Patton

 

[Tinker2]

Russianblood

Nice looking gun you got.

Enjoy
Tinker2

 

[hornetk4]

That is truely a beutiful gun may I ask what something like that costs? If I'm going to have a dream of owning something like that some day I may as well know about what it would cost me . Plus how does it shoot I'm sure everyone is wondering that?

 

[Russianblood]

According to "The fusil de Tulle in New France, 1691-1741", hunting guns were 28 bore. Of course, the French pound was heavier than the English pound back then. :hmm:

 

[Henry]

Exact , on the marine contracts , inspectore had a hard time to get an uniform bore /calibre
so imagine the fun on the civilian guns :yakyak:

Still , most of the guns in large Museum collections , like Valley Forge as an exemple ,
vary from .62 to .65 , .62 " being the most common
wich is modern 20ga more or less half of a hair .
:winking: