Playing around with a little project for turkey season...shiny brass doesn't bother deer at all but turkey's are another matter so I thought I'd hide the brass from prying eyes...can't use "modern camo" on a Flintlock of course, so I'm experimenting with a fringed suede butt cover and barrel sleeve.
The butt cover also allows another benefit...in the spring without heavy clothes normally worn during fall/winter hunting seasons, the LOP on this Flintlock smoothbore is really a little short for me...the butt cover lets me add one of those slip on recoil pads to get another inch LOP and keep it out of sight.
I made the barrel sleeve and darkened it by wiping it with a neetsfoot oil rag.
Member Freedom475 made the lace-up butt cuff for me and I'm experimenting with different lace-up approaches...the approach I used here lets it lace on fairly easy but I end up with a lot of excess rawhide lace at the trigger guard (which I don't want to cut off of course).
Next I'll see if I can pull the excess rawhide lacing back inside the butt cuff out of site, and after I get that figured out, darken the cuff to match the sleeve. I left the fringe at 3" but may trim it to 2.5"...will wait and see...'cause once its cut off, its cut off.
(Swampy also made a butt cuff for me to use on a .54cal Flintlock smoothbore I'll be using for skeet for that same reason of getting the extra LOP with one of those hidden slip on recoil pads)
The butt cover also allows another benefit...in the spring without heavy clothes normally worn during fall/winter hunting seasons, the LOP on this Flintlock smoothbore is really a little short for me...the butt cover lets me add one of those slip on recoil pads to get another inch LOP and keep it out of sight.
I made the barrel sleeve and darkened it by wiping it with a neetsfoot oil rag.
Member Freedom475 made the lace-up butt cuff for me and I'm experimenting with different lace-up approaches...the approach I used here lets it lace on fairly easy but I end up with a lot of excess rawhide lace at the trigger guard (which I don't want to cut off of course).
Next I'll see if I can pull the excess rawhide lacing back inside the butt cuff out of site, and after I get that figured out, darken the cuff to match the sleeve. I left the fringe at 3" but may trim it to 2.5"...will wait and see...'cause once its cut off, its cut off.
(Swampy also made a butt cuff for me to use on a .54cal Flintlock smoothbore I'll be using for skeet for that same reason of getting the extra LOP with one of those hidden slip on recoil pads)
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