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  1. J

    Marshfield Fowler

    Just off Roy Stroh's bench. A Marshfield or New England club-butt fowler. Maple stock, 46" .62 Burton barrel. Davis lock, Roy also made the side plate, thimbles and trigger guard. Weighs a bit over six pounds. Hands down the best gun I ever handled in 25 years of shooting flinters. Basically...
  2. J

    Early New England rifle

    This link is to a Muzzle Blast article from 2000 on a late 18th-century rifle from Vermont. It looks like a typical New England fowler of the period, but it has a rifle barrel and patch box. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts as to whether there was a short lived tradition of making...
  3. J

    fusil de chasse

    Howdy, I am becoming very intrigued by the fusil de chasse,and am trying to read up on them (I'm ording Russel Bouchard's book). I am impressed by how popular they were (and still are) and how efficient they were for the time. Long barrel smoothbores and light weight. I know there were different...
  4. J

    Percussion pistol ID ?

    My Uncle sent me these pics of a pistol he got from my Grandpap's estate years ago. We have no background on it. There is no ramrod. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
  5. J

    Squirrel Hunt

    Went out Saturday and walked some hardwoods out here in northeast Connecticut. I used the Hudson Valley fowler Roy Stroh built me. It has a 55" barrel and is 69.cal. I used bird shot with greased tow wadding with 70 grains of powder and shot. The long barrel makes for some real tight patterning...
  6. J

    Museum of the Fur Trade: The Voyagers

    Just got my latest subscription to the Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly, its a double issue that is also an exhibit catalog for their latest exhibit "The Voyagers." It about 40 pages of color plates of paintings, canoes, paddles, tools, guns, trade silver, with great text too. In a word...
  7. J

    early Ohio flintlocks

    Does anyone know anything about early Ohio rifles ? I'm especially looking for documentation and pics of guns from the Firelands or Western Reserve region of northeast Ohio in the period about 1810 to 1845. How are these Ohio guns distinctive ? I'm more interested in the flintlocks or those...
  8. J

    Looking for article on Medad Hills

    Does anyone out there have a copy of the article: "Medad Hills, Connecticut Gunsmith" Antiques Magazine (July) 1943 pages 77-78 I'm having a hard time finding that old magaize around me, I'd be very grateful if someone could shoot me a copy. JT
  9. J

    From Shooter 250

    A little while back I was asking for advice here on finding a good tomahawk for my son who is starting to throw. Shooter 250 sent me a message that he had a tomahawk that he would like to send my son to have. Well, we got the package this weekend and let me say he really made an impression on my...
  10. J

    Need tomahawk advise

    My 12 year old youngin' is really into throwing hawks and I want to encourage it by getting him a a couple to practice with. I've got an old clunker and my shrewwhawk he's using now. Can people share some of their hawk throwing experience to help me choose what to get. I'm looking to buy at...
  11. J

    What exactly is a cutteau or cuttoe?

    I've seen it listed in New England and on trade good lists throughout the 18th century, but what was it exactly? Neaumann says it was a shorthunting sword less than 25" and from the French term Cutteau de chasse. Is that pretty much it? I did a search and this same question was asked a year...
  12. J

    Mesh game bags?

    Has anyone ever made one or seen documention for one? I've seen mesh attached to hunting pouches before, they still make them that way, but I was thinking of a mesh or net bag you could roll up and stick in your pocket and then use when you take birds or squirrels. Thought it might be an...
  13. J

    Roy's new Hudson Valley fowler

    Roy is just putting the final touches on my new fowler. I have to say that I am simply blown away with the job he did. I can’t say enough good things about Roy or his guns. I’ve always admired these Hudson Valley fowlers and after shooting flinters for 20 years I thought it was time to get one...
  14. J

    Dutch knives

    All these great knife discussions over the past few weeks has me thinking. Does anyone have any good documentation for Dutch knives, especially say during the ca. 1700 1770 period, maybe earlier? There is a “Dutch knife” that is offered by Wayne Zurl, Dixie, Log Cabin Shop and others with the...
  15. J

    gunsmith ad 1748 NYC

    I came across this really interesting advertisement for gunsmith Edward Annely in NYC in 1748. Notice how they were already proofed, and includes birding guns with bayonets, the "right sort" of Indian guns. One of his guns appears in Neumann's book "Battle Weapons..." on page 153, its a club...
  16. J

    carrying yer belt axe/tomahawk

    A big thanks to all who responded to my earlier inquiry about makers of early American belt axes. After doing some more reading, including Carl Russell's "Traps and Tools of the Mountain Man" I decided to get one offered by TOW...
  17. J

    American belt axe

    I'm looking for a good forged American type belt axe or tomahawk. This would be the square-polled type with the pointed ears and rectangular shaped body which appeared around the type of the Revolution. Does anyone have one or know someone who forges them? Thank in advance JT
  18. J

    estimating caliber of flattened ball?

    This is a different kind of question. I wasn’t sure which forum to post it in. Here it goes. If you have a spent round ball that has been flattened, can you estimate what the original caliber was based on its weight? I saw such a spent ball that was excavated by archaeologists. It dates to the...
  19. J

    black barrel

    Last weekend I went to the Connecticut River Museum in Essex, Connecticut, there is a temporary exhibit on early shipbuilding now. In one of the exhibit cases was a fine New England fowler, French style stock, some home made parts, steel ramrod, the works. It looked to date to around 1770 or so...
  20. J

    New England rifles

    I have shot only smoothbores for years now and know very little about flint rifles. I've been gradually developing an interest in rifles and was wondering if anyone knows anything about New England rifles. I sense that they came about much later, and after the Rev War. Has anyone built a New...
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