Early Penn smooth rifle?

[Am Fear Liath Mòr]

I'm wanting to build a Pennsylvania smoothbore gun (not necessarily a fowler) using a 44" .75 octagon to round barrel. What are some styles that fit in the early 1760's for such a gun?

 

[tenngun]

Is that a little big? I’ve only seen a few real life smooth rifles but seen a photo or two and they were all smaller, don’t know how many big ones were made.
I would lean toward a fowling price in that caliber.
However any early style ought to fit. With a bigger caliber a early Virginia would shine.

 

[rich pierce]

Well, the first one that comes to mind that is a huge caliber smooth rifle from possibly the 1760s. It’s a Moravian gun associated with others by the Bethlehem/Christians Spring gunsmiths. It’s a real big honker. It’s in Bob Lienemann’s outstanding book Moravian Gunmaking II pages 187-192. It has a .75 cal smooth barrel 45” long. It has a fowler style guard but also a cheekpiece and a side opening cast brass coffin lid patchbox with the “lamb” head. It was fitted for a bayonet. Looks like European cast buttplate and guard. Fancy sideplate.

In same book is a long fowler with a .75 smooth barrel 55” long. Simpler furniture and sleeker.

Also in that book is a big honker built just like the Marshall rifle but with a round musket barrel.