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Finally Pulled my Fusil de Chasse Kit Back Out.

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Started to slowly work on it again. Focused mainly on filing and sanding the metal then I'll get back to working on the stock again.

Of course being a glutton for punishment my Pendersoli .54 Kentucky pistol kit arrived this morning. That's going to be mostly furniture work as everything else is fitted already. Will have to remove the barrel blueing and brown it.

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Where did the fusil kit come from and what is your opinion of it?
Thanks,
ThreeCrows
Earlier in the week I was thinnin' Sitting Fox but I suddenly remembered I got it from Pecatonica River Muzzleloaders. After talking with some people here years ago realized the side plate was incorrect and their pins were really thin, ordered both those items from Track of the Wolf. Some also said the barrel wasn't correct but from the original pictures I've seen it looks correct to me. Comes with an L&R lock which I'm filing and sanding now. If I had it to do over I'd have gotten it from TotW.
 
Bait & switch ... you tease us with a Fusil de Chasse title ... then you show us a pistol ... :dunno:

Keep in mind, even years ago the TOW kit was not only incorrect, it was flat out wrong! Even on their layout drawing, full-size plans, they had 2 pins per ramrod pipe.

A period correct FdC barrel should be fully tapered from breech forward, going from octagon to round and be ~44.3 inches long, built using early French pieds and pouce measurements. Most ‘kit’ makers use 42” barrels, due to ‘ease’ of shipping. Make sure to add the facets at the transition, by what should be a single wedding band.
 
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Bait & switch ... you tease us with a Fusil de Chasse title ... then you show us a pistol ... :dunno:

Keep in mind, even years ago the TOW kit was not only incorrect, it was flat out wrong! Even on their layout drawing, full-size plans, they had 2 pins per ramrod pipe.

A period correct FdC barrel should be fully tapered from breech forward, going from octagon to round and be ~44.3 inches long, built using early French pieds and pouce measurements. Most ‘kit’ makers use 42” barrels, due to ‘ease’ of shipping. Make sure to add the facets at the transition, by what should be a single wedding band.
Okay. Now again in English for us first timers......... I have no idea what facets are and the only wedding band I know of is on my finger except the double ones on my horn. So I assume there's only one pin per ramrod pipe? That makes things a little easier........ :)

I did say I would post pictures later. And this is one of the earlier ones and I have the full sized plans........
 
Facets are the flats that form the octagon part of a barrel or other multi-sided cylindrical thing.
The Wedding band is the ring like feature that goes around the barrel where the flats end and the round part of the barrel starts. It looks somewhat like a wedding ring.
 
Facets are the flats that form the octagon part of a barrel or other multi-sided cylindrical thing.
The Wedding band is the ring like feature that goes around the barrel where the flats end and the round part of the barrel starts. It looks somewhat like a wedding ring.
Okay, that's what this barrel looks like.

Just set it up to take some pictures.

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Who makes the kit on your Fusil? I have been thinking about jumping in on one of those. What caliber? Smoothbore?
Sorry about all of the questions. I have built flintlocks from scratch but would like a little head start on a build right now.

Mike
 
Track of the Wolf (TOW) offers just about the most accurate reproduction of the French fusil de chasse de Tulle, if you order the 44" barrel version. But beware: the lock is going to take some work to get it to function efficiently.

The L&R lock isn't a very accurate representation of any flintlock made in Tulle, France at all. And the 20 ga. Coleraine barrel is thick and clunky, making your fusil handle more like a rifle, than a fowling piece.

I will say this in favor of the TOW fusil, however. It will, if time and care be taken, teach the builder the finer points of building muzzle loaders. Oh....and get a copy of Russel Bouchard's book The Fusil de Tulle in New France 1691-1741. It's available from TOW, and not very expensive.
 
Put the Fusil kit away again, may just be out of my league with that one. Might have to find someone to finish it for me.

I did pull the Kentucky pistol out and started work on that a day ago. That's level one, more my speed and patience level.

Here's where I'm at now.

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Okay, here's where I am now. Am considering browning the barrel but I'm not so sure, I might leave it as is.

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The wood looks lighter in the picture than what it really is, overhead lighting and I need to pick up some tung oil.
 
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