WITHDRAWN REDUCED Custom. 58 Virginia Flintlock Rifle

[BigSkyRambler]

This is an older build of a .58 Virginia style flintlock rifle. It has a 39"×1" barrel with 1:66ish twist. Bore is bright with a very fine grain. No real pitting. Browned finish fading with minor spotting. The Maple stock has both relief and incise carving. Brass mounted. Engraved patchbox (lid latch needs minor tweaking). LOP 14.5 ". $1250 + Shipping.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

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[flipper 17]

What a beautiful gun!

 

[BigSkyRambler]

What a beautiful gun!

And it can be yours!

 

[FlintGunsmith]

Beautiful rifle seems like i run across guns like this after i have done spent money on other gun projects.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Beautiful rifle seems like i run across guns like this after i have done spent money on other gun projects.

You know what you have to do. ;-)

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Sunday Bump.

 

[LLCranford3]

Interested. What does it weigh?

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Interested. What does it weigh?

Not home at the moment, but based on a rifle I weighed this a.m., I would say 9-10 lbs. Probably closer to 9. I will weigh when I get home.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Interested. What does it weigh?

Weighs just about 9.5 lbs.

 

[Tanselman]

This rifle is actually a nice copy of a Melchoir Fordney rifle from Lancaster, PA.

Shelby Gallien

 

[BigSkyRambler]

This rifle is actually a nice copy of a Melchoir Fordney rifle from Lancaster, PA.

Shelby Gallien

Thanks for info. And adding some creepy factors to gun's genesis.
https://pookandpook.com/melchoir-fo...ith-and-one-of-americas-first-insanity-pleas/

 

[Cvkotvkse]

Thanks for info. And adding some creepy factors to gun's genesis.
https://pookandpook.com/melchoir-fo...ith-and-one-of-americas-first-insanity-pleas/

Wow. As clear a description of paranoid schizophrenia symptoms as I have ever encountered in nineteenth century writings... Unfortunately for the defendant, the inherited genetic basis for these didn't get established for another 100+ years, and they usually have NOTHING to do with brain injuries...
Sad for him as well as the victims...