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I had a question about the poorboy style ml. I've spoken to many people who have said that nose caps, patch boxes, side plates, and toe/butt plates were mostly dress up items that were often found on the higher end rifles, and that these dressed up rifles made up about 2% of the overall rifles in circulation from 1750 - 1790. According to many folks, even the fellas at Dixon's Muzzleloading who showed me 10 original ml's dating back to 1760, were in the style of the poorboy without the nosecap, side plate, patchbox or even a butt plate. Two of the models didn't even have trigger guards. The fellas at Dixon's said that even D. Boone himself would have carried the poorboy style ml.
Now that has made me happy because I am waiting to pick up my Poorboy in the next couple weeks, but I wanted to get you'alls opinion on the ubiquitousness of the poorboy style.
Don't know how I pulled off "you'alls" and "ubiquitousness" in the same sentence. Coun't do that again if I tried.
Now that has made me happy because I am waiting to pick up my Poorboy in the next couple weeks, but I wanted to get you'alls opinion on the ubiquitousness of the poorboy style.
Don't know how I pulled off "you'alls" and "ubiquitousness" in the same sentence. Coun't do that again if I tried.