Lefty Canoe Gun Completed.
Well I never built a flintlock before and up until yesterday I had never even fired one. I've built a few percussion rifles, an underhammer, a boxlock and a sidelock Springfield knockoff. This one was a whole new learning experience. I made tons of mistakes but I learned allot from each and every goof up.
This gun was inspired by a friend on another muzzleloading site. He's helped me with all of my concerns and questions throughout the building process.
She's built around a modern 16 ga unchoked, unchambered, 26" L.C. Smith shotgun barrel blank and uses a L&R Queen Anne lock. Most of the parts aside from the side plate were from TOW. The sideplate was a right hand sand cast blank that I bought on Ebay and reversed and shaped into a left hand plate . The rear sight is my own creation. Although I've never seen anything quite like it on the originals in my research I felt that it somehow still manages to look authentic to my uneducated eye.
The grade III maple stock blank was also from TOW.
I'm rather ashamed of my inletting on this one. I learned that the stock should be down to near final dimensions before inletting the lockplate and tang. I made those cuts too deep thus causing a less than precise fit. Still, all-in-all, I'm pleased with her, especially after shooting her yesterday.
I haven't weighed it but I'd guess about 4.5 lbs
Recoil is stout but manageable. I'll be attempting to take my gobbler with her this Spring.
Here's a few pics of the build in progress:
Gun Completed:
Well I never built a flintlock before and up until yesterday I had never even fired one. I've built a few percussion rifles, an underhammer, a boxlock and a sidelock Springfield knockoff. This one was a whole new learning experience. I made tons of mistakes but I learned allot from each and every goof up.
This gun was inspired by a friend on another muzzleloading site. He's helped me with all of my concerns and questions throughout the building process.
She's built around a modern 16 ga unchoked, unchambered, 26" L.C. Smith shotgun barrel blank and uses a L&R Queen Anne lock. Most of the parts aside from the side plate were from TOW. The sideplate was a right hand sand cast blank that I bought on Ebay and reversed and shaped into a left hand plate . The rear sight is my own creation. Although I've never seen anything quite like it on the originals in my research I felt that it somehow still manages to look authentic to my uneducated eye.
The grade III maple stock blank was also from TOW.
I'm rather ashamed of my inletting on this one. I learned that the stock should be down to near final dimensions before inletting the lockplate and tang. I made those cuts too deep thus causing a less than precise fit. Still, all-in-all, I'm pleased with her, especially after shooting her yesterday.
I haven't weighed it but I'd guess about 4.5 lbs
Recoil is stout but manageable. I'll be attempting to take my gobbler with her this Spring.
Here's a few pics of the build in progress:
Gun Completed:
