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I have one similar, mine is polished and blued, I picked it up in trade in the mid '90's, it takes a great edge, is well balanced, and is an excellent throwing hawk.

I love my two smoothbore fusils, I have a half dozen custom flintlock rifles that are great shooters, the reason I don't shoot them as much as I do my smoothbore flinters is because they are getting too heavy, age and health have taken their toll on this old man. However, fair discloser, while...

While I enjoy shooting my custom flintlock rifles I am more at home shooting my flintlock fowlers, I've had many over the years mostly custom built smoothies and one original 1850's English side x side 15 ga. My first experiences with smooth bore long guns were disappointing to say the least, my...

Some really great information here, now you all have me wondering where and when my second one was made, my first was purchased in the early to mid '80's by a close friend, I bought my second one in 2020 from a local guy who was the original owner, both Fusils appear to be close to identical...

Thanks for the comments my friend, I'm a life long shooter and hunter, most of my long gun shooting has been with shotguns, Trap, Skeet, and Inglish sporting clays competitively. My shotgun of choice for most of those years was the 12 ga., how ever I have owned some very sweet 20 ga. guns as...

Rick, Centermark had only one owner of record, his name is (or was) Raymond J Woodall, he filed for and was granted a business license in the state of Penn. on Sept. 27, 1984. Mr. Woodall cancelled his business license on April 5th., 1993. I've personally owned three of his model French Fusil de...

I live in the southern MA./ northern RI. area of New England and the woods get pretty dry during the summer and fall months, normally the fire threat is pretty high during those seasons, so using flammable patch material in a muzzle loader is an invitation to considerable liability. most of my...

I love smoothbore muzzle loaders, over the years I've owned about a dozen flintlock smoothbore fowlers, one percussion TC .56 SB, and one original 15 ga. English sporting side x side shotgun, one of my Fowlers a custom New England Colonial Fowler was a 12 ga., all my others were in 20 ga. I...

Centermark made a couple of different models and offered some custom modifications, my first Centermark is the standard civilian model which is the Fusil de Chasse stocked in Walnut (Hunting Gun), my second one is also a Fusil de Chasse but it's stocked in curly maple and has factory installed...

OK, this is getting a bit ridiculous and tiring, First off I didn't give any false information, what I did was offer my opinions based on my 60+ years of experience with muzzle loading firearms and 40 + years of reenacting 18th. century American history, that we may view things differently is a...

Thank you very much for taking the time to try to correct my historical failings my friend, but sadly it would appear that I am not easily impressed with the academics of over valuing small details that actually don't matter to most people, However I do understand that some folks set allot of...

Thanks for the reply, I also came to know about Centermark Fusils shortly before they stopped taking orders, they said that they had a backlog of orders that they had to fill and that when those were done that would be the end of their production. But it wasn't the end of my searching for one...

LOL, It seems that one doesn't have to say much on this smoothbore sub forum to bring out the spoilers, but Clark's post is technically correct, Kibler does call it's kit an English Export Grade Fowler. However, the stock, lock, Barrel, and basic furniture has a definite hint of French design...

LOL, I have a Centermark Fusil de Chasse in Walnut, correct front sight with proper placement, and I have another Centermark Fusil de Chasse stocked in dark curly maple, the maple stocked fusil has never given me cause to feel sorry for purchasing it and it shoots every bit as well as the one in...

Congrats on your "new to you Centermark Fusil de Chasse, I have been fortunate enough to own two of them, I got my first one about 25 years ago, it's in Walnut and in great shape, shot allot but well cared for, my second one came to me about four years ago, it's stocked in dark curly maple, the...

And to Alexander I offer my apology for my apparently rude reply, in retrospect we all have our opinions, and sometimes they conflict, having too many years to remember of historical reenacting and too many instances of seeing good folks trying to break into the hobby or lifestyle get...

I know it's been a while, but yes Kibler is offering a fowler kit that closely follows the lines a lock of a Fusil de Chasse and comes in choice of 16 ga. or 20 ga.., it's starting at about $1250.00

For what it's worth I have several friends who like myself are M/L shooters as well as reenactors, while I've been fortunate enough to have obtained all of my custom flintlock rifles and smoothbores at reasonable cost over my many years in the M/L life. However many of my friends a fellow...

While I don't know what your budget limits are I can tell you that a 20ga. trade gun, fowler, musket, Fusil, call it what you will in a flint lock model will serve you very well as an all around long gun. I've been at this muzzle loading game for 60 some odd years, I've owned, shot, competed...

But your post still doesn't answer Troy's question, he's not looking for a rifle and probably doesn't care how well your rifles shoot, and another thing, flintlocks are not harder to shoot, by their design they are much less problematic than percussion guns, plus, caps are not aways readily...