Just something I've been thinking about lately. What would be some smaller lighter percussion era rifles?
Seems the percussion era rifles that are recreated today are heavily dominated by the Hawkins and other plains rifle style. Which from what I've read when built true to form are big heavy guns. Which makes sense since they were going out into the wilds.
The Ohio rifles such as the Vincent's seem to be fairly light and graceful. What are some others styles to look at. Surely there were still a few guns being built for small game or other recreational uses in the more civilized parts of the country. Modern interpretation of the southern rifles might also fit even though it seems a lot of the originals were much heftier than they are built today.
I've just been thinking that a light graceful percussion gun could be very useful to introduce younger shooters or smaller statured shooters to the sport.
