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Howdy all,
Need some help from thems what know. I bought several flint guns from a massive estate of muzzleloaders the other day, and one I bought because I need a turkey gun and it fit the bill. But that is the only bill it fit because of the mix and match nature of it.
I will post pics this evening. It is a hybrid rifle/fowler/smooth rifle. Heavy musket-like stock but Pennsylvania or Virginia shaped. Has cheekpiece, so rifle style, has octagon to round .60 cal barrel, so fowler. Has huge musket style lock in the white. Has full length stock with no muzzle cap, stock has light curl. Trigger guard is long rifle style brass.
Side plate is brass, little engraving. Very shallow traditional relief carving behind tang and near ramrod entry pipe. Has a brazed on front sight, no rear. Has a sliding wood patch box with latch on buttplate ala rifle. Used micrometer to check bore yesterday. .60 on the money. What else... I believe that's about it. It will be my turkey gun but I am just stumped by the style. Super hybrid as it were. Lock has no makers mark inside.
Thanks for any info, and I will get pics up tonight.
Also snatched up a Lehigh/SMR hybrid .40 for squirrel as well, and a Gorgeous Verner-esque Lehigh rifle with a swamped .50 barrel, L&R lock, and unreal flame in the stock. The bore on that one is funny though. Looks like a Whitworth bore. Shallow round rifling but seems overly hexagonal.
Need some help from thems what know. I bought several flint guns from a massive estate of muzzleloaders the other day, and one I bought because I need a turkey gun and it fit the bill. But that is the only bill it fit because of the mix and match nature of it.
I will post pics this evening. It is a hybrid rifle/fowler/smooth rifle. Heavy musket-like stock but Pennsylvania or Virginia shaped. Has cheekpiece, so rifle style, has octagon to round .60 cal barrel, so fowler. Has huge musket style lock in the white. Has full length stock with no muzzle cap, stock has light curl. Trigger guard is long rifle style brass.
Side plate is brass, little engraving. Very shallow traditional relief carving behind tang and near ramrod entry pipe. Has a brazed on front sight, no rear. Has a sliding wood patch box with latch on buttplate ala rifle. Used micrometer to check bore yesterday. .60 on the money. What else... I believe that's about it. It will be my turkey gun but I am just stumped by the style. Super hybrid as it were. Lock has no makers mark inside.
Thanks for any info, and I will get pics up tonight.
Also snatched up a Lehigh/SMR hybrid .40 for squirrel as well, and a Gorgeous Verner-esque Lehigh rifle with a swamped .50 barrel, L&R lock, and unreal flame in the stock. The bore on that one is funny though. Looks like a Whitworth bore. Shallow round rifling but seems overly hexagonal.