Mike Brooks
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Throw a post against the wall enough and hopefully it will finally stick. :surrender:
Here's what I'm hunting turkeys with this year.
This is a Club Butt Fowling gun from around the Marshfield Mass. area ca. 1770's.
46" oct/rnd Colerain 11 bore barrel with .037 jug choke. Chambers Germanic
lock, Davis French trigger guard with a curly ash stock. I've been saving this stock
back for the past 30 years for a gun like this as the grain structure is perfectly bent
to the wrist. No butt plate, side plate or ram rod entry pipe, this gun is intended
for the field. The butt measures 5 1/4" X 2 1/16". The gun weighs 8 3/4 lbs and has
a 13 5/8" trigger pull. It carries a hand split hickory rod that is 5/8" at the big end.
It has a moderately distressed finish with some 18th century style carved "graffiti".
Here's a bunch more pictures.
Club butt pics
Here's what I'm hunting turkeys with this year.
This is a Club Butt Fowling gun from around the Marshfield Mass. area ca. 1770's.
46" oct/rnd Colerain 11 bore barrel with .037 jug choke. Chambers Germanic
lock, Davis French trigger guard with a curly ash stock. I've been saving this stock
back for the past 30 years for a gun like this as the grain structure is perfectly bent
to the wrist. No butt plate, side plate or ram rod entry pipe, this gun is intended
for the field. The butt measures 5 1/4" X 2 1/16". The gun weighs 8 3/4 lbs and has
a 13 5/8" trigger pull. It carries a hand split hickory rod that is 5/8" at the big end.
It has a moderately distressed finish with some 18th century style carved "graffiti".
Here's a bunch more pictures.
Club butt pics