I picked this little flinter up for someone who wants to try a flinter without spending an ‘arm & a leg’ to start. They don’t like the ‘humps’ on the Pedersoli KY or PA flintlocks, so I had suggested a gun-in-the-white by Jackie Brown or a Kibler Southern Moutain Rifle.
Well I saw this one at a recent show for pretty cheap, although the vintage shellac finish needed a refinishing. It was also pretty ‘blonde’, being a European beech stock. I refinished and stained the stock (Tapaderra’s ‘Winchester brown/red’ stain), then applied 8 hand-rubbed oil coats and 2 of wax, then tuned up the lock. I think it came out pretty good!
It wears a Belgian-proofed 13/16” barrel 40” long and has a lock marked Italy, that sparks great. No issues there. This is also built like a ’real’ longrifle, meaning all pinned together and not just built cheaply using screws to attach items like ramrod pipes and trigger guards, as many of the relatively inexpensive import flinters do.
I’m told these were imported for a few years in the early 60s and the barrel is marked Turner Kirkland with the city & State below it.
Well I saw this one at a recent show for pretty cheap, although the vintage shellac finish needed a refinishing. It was also pretty ‘blonde’, being a European beech stock. I refinished and stained the stock (Tapaderra’s ‘Winchester brown/red’ stain), then applied 8 hand-rubbed oil coats and 2 of wax, then tuned up the lock. I think it came out pretty good!
It wears a Belgian-proofed 13/16” barrel 40” long and has a lock marked Italy, that sparks great. No issues there. This is also built like a ’real’ longrifle, meaning all pinned together and not just built cheaply using screws to attach items like ramrod pipes and trigger guards, as many of the relatively inexpensive import flinters do.
I’m told these were imported for a few years in the early 60s and the barrel is marked Turner Kirkland with the city & State below it.
