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Gentlemen, How to build a New England style rifle.
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I figure on probably running 80, 90 gr of 3F through it for a hunting load anyway. Makes no since to me to load 120 gr here for deer. My avg shot is about 40 yard and it's rare to shoot over 75 yards. So no since in beatin the hell out of me. I want to shoot this gun every chance I get at the range too. :thumbsup:
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well i certainly hope the mailman comes to swampys today!!!! swampy will be one happy fella! :wink: an if'n he don't...oh gosh... :shake:
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Arrived here safe today. Pictures just do not do it justice! Oh my god this thing is way beyond anything I ever dreamed about! :bow: Thanks so much Roy! :hatsoff:
Russ T Frizzen
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Take a look at the Welcome Mathewson rifle on GunBroker.com. Actually I think it's probably a fowler. Made down in your neck of the woods.
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Need a working link Russ.
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It's on gunbroker. I don't know where that link came from. It's item # 98713047.
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Argh, they called it a Kentucky. Certainly seen better days. I wonder if they "missed" during the restoration...if that gun originally had wedge pin inlays and if the thumb piece is new it's not domed. The wedge pin should be coming in from the left side...
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I'm not sure I should say this as I'm not in anyway qualified to do so but I'm not totally convinced that is a Welcome Mathewson gun. I don't know who is saying it is but his and Silas Allen's work are similar and I see more of Silas work in that gun than I do Welcomes. But I could be totally wrong here.
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I like it. Can't decide if the stock is walnut or cherry. The barrel looks like a reused musket or fowler barrel, and the rest looks like a New England rifle. The wooden under rib is classic early New England. I have a nice, well seasoned piece of walnut that would make up into this stock and I might try to build a 16 bore fowler along the lines of this gun. Might be a Rhode Island piece, or southeastern Massachusetts.
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Well Welcome would be a Rhode Island gunsmith, Silas would be a Massachusetts gunsmith. There wasn't to many miles between them.
I'd like to put together a half stocked cap gun similar to this one someday myself.
I'd like to put together a half stocked cap gun similar to this one someday myself.
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So, Swampy, did you shoot her?
Made she Fire& Smoke :hmm:
How does she feel :shocked2:
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Made she Fire& Smoke :hmm:
How does she feel :shocked2:
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Not yet, just had it out the other day for a photo op. :grin: http://www.nimrodsplace.com/neriflebag8.jpg
I'm going to be a little tied up next week but after that I hope to get to the range real soon. :thumbsup:
I'm going to be a little tied up next week but after that I hope to get to the range real soon. :thumbsup:
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Great pic. :thumbsup:
Man, you have a beauty and she must wait. :shocked2:
Maybe she's looking for another guy, who didn't let her wait.You know:First come, first served. :grin:
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Man, you have a beauty and she must wait. :shocked2:
Maybe she's looking for another guy, who didn't let her wait.You know:First come, first served. :grin:
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