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Smoothbore "Rifles"

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Talk to me about smoothbore flintlocks, sleek, graceful, light, have front and rear sights, and mounted into rifle stocks, usually in smaller calibers from .36 ~ .54 calibers, but also in .58, .62, or bigger.
I've been thinking about having one for along time, but the urge is getting stronger, back in the early seventies I bought (I live in MA. one of the first states along with RI. to have a Muzzle Loading primitive deer season) a T/C .56 cal. SB rifle to hunt in my state as well as in the neighboring state of Rhode Island (rifled barrels were not allowed), at the time I already owned a T/C Hawken in .54 cal. and a T/C Seneca .36 cal., my favorite of the three was the Renegade .56 Smooth Bore rifle, it was actually more accurate than my rifled T/C's, for some reason I couldn't miss with that gun, anything within a 100 yds. that I shot at got hit.
Eventually all my percussion guns except two got traded off or sold when I found flintlocks, and both of them I kept because I built them, I have a couple of smoothbore fowlers that I really enjoy, and I have a half dozen flintlock rifles, two of which I rarely use, all are flinters and all are customs, both beautiful guns, I thinking maybe of trading or selling one or both to fund a new custom smooth bore rifle.

So, who's got 'em and likes shooting them ?
 
Here’s an original Lancaster smooth rifle
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My mentor is now mid-eighties, and lives a few miles down the road. He is still the last word on Kentucky rifles and such. According to what he told me 40 or more years ago, a great many of the plain Kentuckies were originally built as smooth bores for the harvest of small game with cast, cut, cubed shot or solid ball. I personally have a penchant for the Hudson's Bay Trade Musket, so my sporting smoothie, other than my DB shotgun and Charleyville, should I tackle it, will be one of those in a 20-28 gauge.
 
Here's a smooth rifle I made last fall. It's a .54 cal. x 48" oct/rnd barrel, lg. Siler lock, plain maple stock, no butt plate or entry pipe.
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Here's another one I made after the one above. Same barrel but 1" shorter, sm. Siler lock, ash stock, no butt plate or entry pipe.I don't have a full view of it with the finish on but you get the idea.
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"Smooth rifles" were more common than most folks think. They have the attributes of a rifle-cheek piece, patchbox, trigger guard, rear sight-but simply lack rifling.

original, about 45cal, click to expand
 

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