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  1. dave_person

    A blind man can assemble and finish a Kibler Woodsrunner

    Hi Guys, The Braintree Hill shop is really busy but today I spent some time helping my friend Josh. Some of you may remember our thread "Building Blind". Jim and Katherine Kibler offered Josh a good deal on a Woodsrunner kit so he could see if he could finish it mostly on his own. The answer...
  2. dave_person

    Making a Pattern 1756 Long Land British Musket

    Hi Folks, I am starting this thread a little earlier than I planned to help a member who is actively building the same gun. The first thing for me is always context. The gun I am building is a British pattern 1756 long land musket and inspired by an original Tower assembled musket issued to...
  3. dave_person

    A fun morning of shooting

    Hi, I get so focused on building guns that I forget how much I love to shoot them. Today I got 2 of my favorite rifles out to shoot at longer ranges than my usual 50 yards. The guns are my Star of Bethlehem and my rifled British officer's fusil. Both rifles...
  4. dave_person

    Building the King's Muskets and a Bit More

    Hi Folks, My Braintree Hill gun shop is humming with work. My apprentice, Maria, and I are busy arming reenactors and building museum pieces. If you look in from the road, you can hear sawing, hammering, rasping, welding, forging, and filing much like it probably was in the 18th century...
  5. dave_person

    Kempton Gun Maker's Fair Thank You

    Hi, It was a great fair and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting so many of you. That was so great! I wanted to thank Brett Davis and Tom Groller for organizing and supporting the demos and seminars. Chuck Dixon's original purpose was to teach gun making. The demos by ALR folks and seminars by both...
  6. dave_person

    Kempton Gunmaker's Fair

    Hi Guys, I will be at the fair and presenting 2 seminars. The first covers the chronological list of tasks needed to build any muzzleloading gun. In other words, when to do what. The second seminar is how to build a historically correct Brown Bess. I will also do a demo at the ALR venue on...
  7. dave_person

    Fixing Locks

    Hi Guys, My apprentice, Maria, is the armorer for Warner's Extra-Continental Regiment, the Green Mountain Boys. After last weekend's event at Ethan Allen's homestead, she brought back repair work to the shop. A lock from a well used Miroku Brown Bess was tired and the frizzen loose and...
  8. dave_person

    Rasps For Gun Making

    Hi, I had a good day finally beginning to have energy again. Was treated to a beautiful winter mountain sky this afternoon. Some friends who are forming a 1770s British 33 Regiment of Foot Grenadier company came over to talk history, guns, and to drill a bit in my field. I had worked on...
  9. dave_person

    Building a Ferguson Rifle from Rifle Shoppe Part Set

    Hi Folks, I am building this Ferguson rifle for a client down south. It is my third Ferguson but my first using the TRS precarved stock. I like Fergusons and shoot my personal rifle a lot. However, I have no illusions about the place of the Ferguson rifle in history. Patrick Ferguson and his...
  10. dave_person

    Hawk New England Fowler

    Hi folks, I've been working on and off on a second Hawk New England fowler for a while. I am just catching up with posting so I put up some photos taken a while ago. The original Connecticut River Valley gun can be seen here...
  11. dave_person

    Redundant thread about Hawk fowler erased

    Don't know how this got posted twice. I erased the copy. dave
  12. dave_person

    TRS Baker and Ferguson Kits

    Hi, I am just posting this short note to congratulate The Rifle Shoppe on their Baker rifle and Ferguson rifle kits. Over the last month or so, I received them but will not be making either for a while. The Ferguson is on my docket for Spring 2023 and the Baker for sometime in early 2024...
  13. dave_person

    My Apprentice and Her English Fowler

    Hi, Lots of stuff happening this winter. I have an apprentice, Maria Gray. She is a local high school senior who is greatly focused on history. She is a member of Herrick's Vermont Rangers and Warner's Green Mountain Boys. She intends to major in history in college. Maria is extremely smart...
  14. dave_person

    An Early Vermont Rifle

    Hi, I had a bout with Covid last August and although my symptoms were very mild, I still suffered extreme fatigue and brain fog. I could do no shop work for 6 weeks because of tiredness and a horrible tendency to make mindless mistakes. Anyway, I am recovered and back to work. However, I am...
  15. dave_person

    Washington's Crossing Nov. 5 2022

    Hi Folks, I will be at an event at Washington's Crossing State Park, NJ on November 5, 2022. I'll have my bench and tools to repair muskets and rifles. I'd love to meet some of you if you are in the area. dave
  16. dave_person

    Resurrecting a 250 year old English lock

    Hi, I got another project checked off. A few years ago, Dave Price gave me a bin of old original locks in various states of disrepair. He didn't think he would ever be able to use them and wondered if I would like them. I said yes immediately and I have worked through that bin over the years...
  17. dave_person

    "Hail Wogdon, Patron of the leaden death..."

    Hi, Robert Wogdon was so famous a maker of dueling pistols, he even had a poem written about him. These Wogdon dueling pistols arrived last Friday. For me, these are a Holy Grail of gun making. Disassembling and examining them is like taking a master class in gun making from one of the best...
  18. dave_person

    A Brief Tour of a Really Good Musket Lock

    Hi, I've been attending quite a few Rev War period living history events over the last few years and it is clear that many Rev War units are getting pretty old. I noticed that some folks struggle to cock their muskets because the springs are often way too stiff and they are not as strong as...
  19. dave_person

    Some historical context concerning the Brown Bess musket

    Hi, I am glad to see there is a lot of interest in British Brown Bess muskets on this forum. The interest is well deserved because Brown Besses were very important to the imperial history of Britain and our own American story. I believe it was the most beautiful military musket ever made and a...
  20. dave_person

    A Pedersoli Brown Bess Kit

    Hi, I am helping a senior in my local high school make a Brown Bess musket from a Pedersoli kit bought from Dixie Gun Works. He is an active reenactor and wants to make as historically correct a musket as he can. What a mess. In addition to the features Pedersoli got wrong like the wrong lock...
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