I have a couple unused locks that I want to start planning rifles around, one is an L&R Manton, the other is an unknown English bar/ shotgun type percussion lock. I've perused the forums and various sites, and I'm leaning towards a small bore, mini Lehigh style for the Manton, and a big bore (is .58 really a big bore?) rifle with the latter. Recommendations and suggestions, as well as perhaps some pieces for inspiration would be appreciated, particularly as i think i might do the english one as my first rifle from a blank.
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Unusual approach! Variety is the spice of life. I always start with what I want to build and buy/sell/trade parts as needed.
Do you plan a plain gun or carving and engraving?
If you want to use that flintlock on a Lehigh it’s going to be a very late one. If fancy, you could try a Kuntz. If plain, a Stophel Long. Until you know what you like, it’s a dart-board type of situation.
Do you plan a plain gun or carving and engraving?
If you want to use that flintlock on a Lehigh it’s going to be a very late one. If fancy, you could try a Kuntz. If plain, a Stophel Long. Until you know what you like, it’s a dart-board type of situation.
I had wanted to do a Lehigh anyways, although I was looking more at one in 58. I picked these locks up at gun shows over the past couple years, I find them interesting in their own right.
The guns would probably have light carving, I havent tried my hand at engraving yet, but its coming. Im actually more interested in early guns, so i may be better off investing my time and money into an early round faced english or colonial type Germanic
The guns would probably have light carving, I havent tried my hand at engraving yet, but its coming. Im actually more interested in early guns, so i may be better off investing my time and money into an early round faced english or colonial type Germanic
Ok, there it is. Do that.
Consider your gun show lock acquirement's as an investment towards what you want, they may have a small profit value as re-sale towards the cost of the rifle you want, instead of being the factor of the rifle you have to build,,
Or become a "contemporary builder", make what you want with what you have.
I mean Honest, you have a cap lock, and a flint lock,, what do you want?
Got my first percussion gun since I was ten years old two years ago, for early season PA bear and deer hunting, and for any elk hunting I might do. It is a copy of a gun in a museum, and I would suggest that if you do not feel constrained by history, make your percussion rifle a British Sporting Rifle hooked breech so that it is easy to take down, clean, put in a gun case. Track of the Wolf used to have plans for this gun. About the Manton style lock, I am also in the process of having a flintlock British Sporting Rifle made, and I am struggling over whether to use the style you have or a slightly earlier "Late Ketland" lock. Either way, the gun will have a hooked breech. Good luck and have fun!
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