jbwilliams3
45 Cal.
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For Sale - Type G trade gun made by John Ruby - $1,200 shipped and insured CONUS. It is red-painted walnut stocked with a (just shy of) 47" 28 gauge (.55 caliber) octagon to round smoothbore barrel. Davis English trade lock with engraving. The barrel was custom made by the late JR Salvo who passed away in 09. The barrel is .980 across the flats at the breech tapered octagon for 12" to a wedding band then tapered round to the muzzle. Stainless steel vent liner with a .060" diameter vent hole. It has 1/4" cast off which puts your eye looking right down the barrel when you shoulder the gun. It has about 3" of drop at the heel of the butt. It holds and points very nicely. Muzzle is coned. Ramrod is split and tapered hickory. As durable a rod as can be had with wood. handmade brass buttplate, sideplate and trigger guard from sheet brass. Cast ramrod pipes. Hand-made square nails in the butt plate. All the exposed screw heads are flame blued along with the trigger.
The gun tips the scale right at 7lbs and balances, points, and holds beautifully. Fired about 20 times with a bare .530 ball and 55 grains. Offhand at forty yards this shoots a small group on a pie-plate sized target. Pretty good for a throw-together load. I never got to experiment with shot. The coned muzzle would work well for a patched ball for someone who likes to experiment with patched smoothbore loads.
The gun tips the scale right at 7lbs and balances, points, and holds beautifully. Fired about 20 times with a bare .530 ball and 55 grains. Offhand at forty yards this shoots a small group on a pie-plate sized target. Pretty good for a throw-together load. I never got to experiment with shot. The coned muzzle would work well for a patched ball for someone who likes to experiment with patched smoothbore loads.
