I like big butts , can not lie

[JOHN F]

Thanks for all the pics guys . I found out my musket components are coming .

 

[Tom-in-Pittsburgh]

Just to add one to the gallery. Mine was made by Steve Krolick and uses a BIG repro Brown Bess buttplate.

 

[EC121]

After building a number of flintlocks, I am looking for something different. How does the miquelet lock compare to the usual flintlocks in ignition speed? I saw a couple on Youtube that looked comparable, but they were shown in slow motion.

 

[Alexander Efremenko]

French boucanier, modeled after a piece in the Maine historical society.
.69 caliber
56 inch barrel

 

[Alexander Efremenko]

A few more

 

[rick1964]

hudson valley fowler in 62 54"barrel built by Ken Netting

 

[Alexander Efremenko]

hudson valley fowler in 62 54"barrel built by Ken Netting

Ken makes some aswome guns

 

[WKD]

 

[olskool]

more cushion for pushin, against your shoulder,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Patrick Thomas]

WKD, some info on that beautiful piece please?

 

[toot]

who doesn't like BIG BERTHA BUTS? I for one am a BIG BUT MAN, and also like FISH TAIL BUTS.

 

[RB POWELL]

There are some crazy big butts there. All are interesting in their unique ways. Kind of universal, right?

 

[Rudyard]

All the above show a refreshing option to the usual Long rifle theme and no hint of factory er' 'pieces' going on copper caps .(Showing of course the widest streak of flintlock snobbery !) No I admire imagination in gun making, good to see it.
Rudyard

 

[WKD]

WKD, some info on that beautiful piece please?

This is a Hudson Fowler I just finished. 47" tapered round 20 gauge barrel (by Bob Hoyt) a lock from The Rifle Shop (early French) all brass copied cast and copied from original guns.
I have it listed in the Firearms for Sale section. Taking offers.

 

[Heyyou48307]

Got one coming soon I hope, the wife dont want me out of the house cause a the corony, its in the white at a buddys house

 

[Keb]

Here is a couple form a few years ago. Both are Bess plates. ( I think they are, anyway. It's been a while.)

 

[Treestalker]

Ooooh Gentlemen, I believe I am in love! The big butts give balance where it should be, and makes pass shooting with a long barrel a thing of beauty! I'm presently working on a big butted canoe gun using a broken and cut down Virginia rifle, iron furniture with a 30" Oct/round .50 caliber barrel (Green Mountain) and a Siler classic style percussion lock (I know, I know,) which a fellow gentleman and scholar from Missouri named Tenn-something graciously took a hell of a loss on so I could afford it. The stock balances up to my right arm like a glove and takes the weight off the fore end so I can hold it nicely with my crippled left arm. I have a Springfield 1863 musket barrel opened to .60 cal. smoothbore that I intend to make a late percussion ( I know, I know,) Trade gun out of, and the breech is big enough to justify a BIG butted stock. With the heavier 'buck and ball' 40" barrel, I believe it will be a real beauty. I might be prejudiced though, since my Mother's maiden name was -get this- Butts!