What's the price of corn in Iowa?

[Mike Brooks]

BUCANEER! :rotf:
60" Coogle barell in 20 bore. Modified Chambers early Ketland lock. Home made sideplate buttplate and pipes, Beech stock. This ones headed for Alabama tomorrow. :grin:

 

[Slowpoke]

Number 250 sure is a beauty! Great work as always, but..... (there's always a "but" isn't there) why did you pin the front of the trigger guard and use screws for the rear? Is it jug choked?

 

[Joe Yanta]

:applause: Fine, fine looking piece Mike. I am getting a bug for a 20 gauge smoothie of some sort. BTW wouldn't the question be more specific if you asked what is the price of corn in Tampa Bay?

Joe

 

Awesome gun Mike. I always have liked your Buccaneer guns. This one is no disappointment either! Nice carving and I like the file work on the lock. Great gun!

 

[Itegorm]

That's a beautiful gun. I dig the lock work, the anchor is a nice touch. I've always wanted a gun as tall or taller than me.

 

[Bookie]

Excellent craftsmanship, Mike. Cheers, Bookie

 

[Slamfire]

The owner of that one won't be able to use the excuse that he stopped his swing. :rotf:

 

[Deerstalker]

Piece of art per usual, Mike! Gee, I want to be as good as that guy when I grow up!
Bryan

 

[Brasilikilt]

Wow! That's some seriously beautiful work!!!

Okay...forgive my dumb question but here goes.
Does this gun kind of emulate the style of a Dutch club butt from around the 1650's?

 

[Roy]

Once again beautiful work Mike. :bow: :v

 

[Mike Brooks]

Number 250 sure is a beauty! Great work as always, but..... (there's always a "but" isn't there) why did you pin the front of the trigger guard and use screws for the rear? Is it jug choked?

The original I copied had the trigger guard attatched like this one. This one is cylinder bored, the owner plans on mostly shooting round ball.

 

[Mike Brooks]

Wow! That's some seriously beautiful work!!!

Okay...forgive my dumb question but here goes.
Does this gun kind of emulate the style of a Dutch club butt from around the 1650's?

Yes, sort of... the club butt style must have been used for nearly 100 years or so. This one is distinctly french with the hook at the front of the comb.

 

Would a French Buccaneer gun like this one be good for as early as 1650's in the Great Lakes area?

 

[Mike Brooks]

Thanks for the kind comments fellows :v The archetecture on this thing is just bizzar enough that it really slowed me down getting it shaped out. It isn't like I build these things on a regular basis so I can get speedy enough in the shaping phase. I kind of lost my butt on this one as it took me far longer to build than I figured.
But, in the end I thought it turned out pretty well, and I figure the new owner will probably enjoy it.

 

[Mike Brooks]

Would a French Buccaneer gun like this one be good for as early as 1650's in the Great Lakes area?

I can't say I've ever seen a buccaneer that dates that early. I'm not really sure what a buccaneer would have looked like as early as 1650. The surviving buccaneers I've seen seem to date 1700-1750's. I'd say you might get by as early as 1720 or so with this one.
These are mostly white man guns as they are too heavy for Indian use. This one goes 10 1/2 lbs.

 

[rich pierce]

Mike, how was the beech to work and how did you stain it?

Was it a "beech"? I have heard it's devlish to dry properly without checking but is wicked stable and even-grained. It seems to have been used for plane bodies a lot. We used to burn it for firewood and it was as hard as hard maple or ash, at least to the buzz saw.

 

[Va.Manuf.06]

:shocked2: Mike, as always, excellent work! :bow: Who made the barrel? :applause:

 

[paulvallandigham]

While a few flintlocks may have been present in the New World, I suspect that in 1650, they would have been using matchlocks as explorers. Matchlocks are what they had at Jamestown,in Virginia.We know the Illinois country was being explored by Margette, and Lasalle, in the early 1650's, but I doubt that group would have had flintlocks. It was too new an action to have gained widespread use that early.

 

[Kuckus]

Beautiful gun Mike :hatsoff: :bow: ! One question... Did the customer order the optional light set for the end of that smokepole?... Wait until the FAA hears about this :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:!

 

[Mike Brooks]

:shocked2: Mike, as always, excellent work! :bow: Who made the barrel? :applause:

Ben Coogle from Oglethorp Ga.