So I think I'm more confused than when we started. Now it sounds like a trade gun is a cheaper fowler. So let me ask it this way. In modern day with no concern for hc/pc what would make someone buy a trade gun over a fowling piece.
shotgunner87 said:To those of you who know more about this stuff than me. What is the difference between a trade gun and a fowler? Is a trade gun more like a smooth rifle or a different animal entirely?
colorado clyde said:A trade gun is by definition, a gun of lesser value traded for something of higher value.
They were traded for centuries and all across the Globe wherever there was valuable trade.
The models of trade guns depended on who was trading them, when and where.
folks are also looking for very American historic guns, and while there were certainly fowlers in the colonies, the concept is definitely headed toward the British game gun, which are fine wing shooting guns, but on the wrong side of the War of Independence.
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