Lancaster, Lehigh, "Ludowici?"

[bud in pa]

Cattywampuss As an old time trucker I faintly remember hearing about Ludowici. As far as your guns go I think that I would be proud to own them.

 

[Flintandsteel]

Cat,
I hope you didn’t take my reply as criticism. I’ve built well over 100 guns in the last 25 years, so I have some understanding of longrifle construction, a lot of them Lancasters and Lehighs.
I assumed you were asking about styles, and some background on what you had. I was speaking to that.
The Bucks Co. gun is an obvious precarve from TOW, with an A Vernor patch box. Not a bad gun for sure.
The very dark one, with the bad buttplate inlet, is a precarve of an Early Lancaster. The reason the buttstock is dished out, is that the buttplate was not properly installed.
I am being totally honest here, telling you what I see. They are kit guns that a beginner put together.
Does that make them bad? Hell no! We all started somewhere. Shoot and enjoy them.
Sorry if I stepped on toes.

 

[Cattywompuss]

Cat,
I hope you didn’t take my reply as criticism. I’ve built well over 100 guns in the last 25 years, so I have some understanding of longrifle construction, a lot of them Lancasters and Lehighs.
I assumed you were asking about styles, and some background on what you had. I was speaking to that.
The Bucks Co. gun is an obvious precarve from TOW, with an A Vernor patch box. Not a bad gun for sure.
The very dark one, with the bad buttplate inlet, is a precarve of an Early Lancaster. The reason the buttstock is dished out, is that the buttplate was not properly installed.
I am being totally honest here, telling you what I see. They are kit guns that a beginner put together.
Does that make them bad? Hell no! We all started somewhere. Shoot and enjoy them.
Sorry if I stepped on toes.

Not at all Flintandsteel, your post was very constructive.