SOLD English style fowler

[rick1964]

English style fowler. A fowler weight barrel. Given the time frame I know this fowler to be built ( 1988). and the profile of this fowler barrel. I will say it it is a Getz barrel. 36” long. Oct fading into round no wedding band and as I measure the bore is 14 gauge. Siler lock. Installed a new chambers white lightning liner.

Soft yellow brass furniture. Stocked in a decently figured piece of maple. A bit of engraving and carving around tang area. length of pull 14. 1/2”. Weight 6 1/4 pounds. Over all length 55”. Good trigger pull 2 3/4 pounds. Priced 1600$. Plus shipping to your location

 

[PathfinderNC]

Ummm, you didn't post the price,

 

[rick1964]

ummm think I did. 1600$

 

[deerstalkert]

might want to read the rules

 

[rick1964]

You are right. I will get that. beat me with a stick! Ok I’m legit now.

 

[PathfinderNC]

ummm think I did. 1600$

It looks like a nice Fowler

 

[Cvkotvkse]

What are the dimensions (A, B, C) of the barrel? I would like to find a rifled barrel in .50, .54, or .58 to match the rebarreled fowlers my Scots-Irish Overmountain ancestors likely had when they settled at Ft. Nashborough before the AWI.

 

[rick1964]

Well I would have to measure all that tonight after work. So you wanting to put a rifle barrel on this Fowler? Not sure if what you are thinking here.

 

[Feltwad]

Strange looking English Fowler to me
Feltwad

 

[rick1964]

What do your eyes see feltwad. I agree lock to be incorrect. But at the time it was the going lock used

 

[Bigpete]

Beautiful gun

 

[Cvkotvkse]

Well I would have to measure all that tonight after work. So you wanting to put a rifle barrel on this Fowler? Not sure if what you are thinking here.

Some historical info that journeyman gunsmiths took rifle barrels over the mountains for rebarreling smoothbores and fowlers... Cheaper than a whole new rifle, and my folks were hardscrabble and thrifty...( Read some of the online descriptions of the Overmountain men and communities..) While I'm fairly sure that my ancestor in Morgan's Rifles would have been carrying a Virginia Colonial - type rifle, or possibly a "Lancaster gun," my Overmountain folks likely upgraded the fowlers they brought with them when they immigrated here from "the Great Ulster Plantation" in the 1740's. No direct proof, but a fairly likely scenario, given other info on the family...

 

[Feltwad]

What do your eyes see feltwad. I agree lock to be incorrect. But at the time it was the going lock used

Sorry but when a gun is quoted has a particular type then that's. what it should be . I could quote at least 7 faults with your gun then it becomes a bit of this and a bit of that .But if the gun is a good sound shooter then be it not quoted has a model that it is not . No Offence
Feltwad

 

[toot]

14, gauge, so it is a 69 CAL. smoothbore.?

 

[rick1964]

That is correct. Using a set of dial calipers I get 695 at the muzzle and a 675 ball I have on hand seemed it would be ideal size

 

[Hatman/2nd line]

Nice gun!

 

[thomas]

Good looking gun!
Thomas

 

[rusticbob]

Beautiful gun, how does it shoot rib?

 

[rusticbob]

I hate predictive spelling, that should be round balls, not rib.

 

[rick1964]

Shoots Rb great. 675 ball 80 grns 3f 15 th patch This is a very handy Fowler. True Fowler weight.