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Lets see some of those Long Rifles!
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hanshi
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Alright, though mine have been posted before over the years/months - been doing this a long, long time.
.50 early Lancaster
Late Lancaster .40
.45 short late Lancaster
.36 SMR
.50 early Lancaster
Late Lancaster .40
.45 short late Lancaster
.36 SMR
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We really could use a separate place or at least a sticky where people can post their rifles/smoothbores...
My New England style .58 cal Deer buster...
My New England style .36 cal Squirrel rifle... http://www.nimrodsplace.com/ne36o3hr.JPG
My New England style .58 cal Deer buster...
My New England style .36 cal Squirrel rifle... http://www.nimrodsplace.com/ne36o3hr.JPG
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When the guns were stolen in 99 and I decided to just get out of the game I really thought that was that.
A few years later, this was my first attempt at coming back. TVA early VA, .50
The next attempt was paid for with the money I got for the only muzzleloader that was ever recovered. The gun recovered was 12 gauge flint shotgun. This seemed more practicle. TVA, either southern or Tennessee.(don't remember and can't tell from the website) .36 I had it for six years before I ever shot it.
This time I'm back for good. I've spent too much replacing the gear I got rid of to quit.
A recent string on swamped barrels made me really miss my old Edward Marshall rifle. I couldn't find one available but I did find this.
"Twas love at first sight. It arrived just this morning and has yet to be fired. Unlike the .36, this one won't have to wait six years to taste black powder. Saturday morning it goes boom. .50, and a slight mixture of schools bound to turn off a few.
A few years later, this was my first attempt at coming back. TVA early VA, .50
The next attempt was paid for with the money I got for the only muzzleloader that was ever recovered. The gun recovered was 12 gauge flint shotgun. This seemed more practicle. TVA, either southern or Tennessee.(don't remember and can't tell from the website) .36 I had it for six years before I ever shot it.
This time I'm back for good. I've spent too much replacing the gear I got rid of to quit.
A recent string on swamped barrels made me really miss my old Edward Marshall rifle. I couldn't find one available but I did find this.
"Twas love at first sight. It arrived just this morning and has yet to be fired. Unlike the .36, this one won't have to wait six years to taste black powder. Saturday morning it goes boom. .50, and a slight mixture of schools bound to turn off a few.
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I Like that 36 :thumbsup: an Happy Birthday old man
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My Isaac Haines .54 I built from a Chambers kit
My Isaac Haines .54 percussion I built also from a Chambers kit
My virginia .40 cal I just recently finished
My Isaac Haines .54 percussion I built also from a Chambers kit
My virginia .40 cal I just recently finished
One that I built a couple of years ago. I really need to get back to building.
This is a .36 caliber late Lancaster with a modified Late Ketland lock, and double-set trigger from a kit. Stock was a modified Southern Mountain precarved from Stonewall Creek Outfitters.
This is a .36 caliber late Lancaster with a modified Late Ketland lock, and double-set trigger from a kit. Stock was a modified Southern Mountain precarved from Stonewall Creek Outfitters.
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Nice one Bio! :thumbsup: I have always wanted to build a Fordney like that.
hanshi
Cannon
Oh my! I'm drooling over all this eye candy! :hatsoff:
Mad Irish Jack
40 Cal.
My Lorraine- a .54 caliber Early Lancaster with a 44 inch coleraine swamped barrel.
Lorraine is the top gun and Erin (bottom) is my smoothbore (centerMark) Tulle. I finished her from the white.
The early Fullstock Hawken I built but sold to a gent in California;
Lorraine is the top gun and Erin (bottom) is my smoothbore (centerMark) Tulle. I finished her from the white.
The early Fullstock Hawken I built but sold to a gent in California;
Keb
50 Cal.
.25 cal walnut rifle:
.65 cal smooth rifle:
I've got more but not in pictures. My artist rendering didn't fly, I reckon.
.65 cal smooth rifle:
I've got more but not in pictures. My artist rendering didn't fly, I reckon.
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Gotta ask.
Where did you find a .25 barrel? Ain't nothing like a pea rifle.
Where did you find a .25 barrel? Ain't nothing like a pea rifle.
Keb
50 Cal.
It's a tapered from 3/4" to 5/8" x 46" Rayl barrel and it's a bugger to clean. Not sure how old it is.
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Keb said:
I can believe that. Just think, at one time Lyman made a mold for .185
This is my interpretation of a Rev War or slightly earlier(1773?) Lancaster rifle with an import English lock, 44" swamped barrel done about ten years ago it is similar to some of the work of Issac Haines. The lock panels are to long as the lock I wanted would not fit and I did not adjust to the lock I used, (Rookie mistake)The lines of radius pull off the rear lock bolt as I recall to form the lines of the top and bottom of the butstock and the cheeckpiece. It has incise moulding along the forestock and buttstock terminating in curls and has back to back incise c scrools with an incise leaf pattern behind the cheek piece as well as wider incise V lines on the cheek piece. In retrospect I probably should have used the next heavier barrel profile in this .50 gun for a gun this early, a quarter will cover the stock and barrel at the narrowest part, for an example of how little wood one can get by with on a gun, there is a very thin web twixt barrel and rr channel. The stock was a precarve not inlet for lock and sq.ahead of the lock panel,the nose cap is held on by a screw from beloewhich goes into the barrel or a shallow dovetail/threaded plate, I believe this was done on some earlier guns, the nice wide single brass patchbox did not show up and I left it off, to do over again I would have used a woodedn one the wood is a # 3 but looks like the highest grade available up close, I trealy did not want that but such is life. i quiote shooting rifles and after this hung on thewall for a couple of years I sold it to a forum member. I hope he or another is still getting god use out of it. I hate to see a ML hanging on the wall unused.
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