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Lancaster, Lehigh, "Ludowici?"

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Cat,
I hope you didn’t take my reply as criticism. I’ve built well over 100 guns in the last 25 years, so I have some understanding of longrifle construction, a lot of them Lancasters and Lehighs.
I assumed you were asking about styles, and some background on what you had. I was speaking to that.
The Bucks Co. gun is an obvious precarve from TOW, with an A Vernor patch box. Not a bad gun for sure.
The very dark one, with the bad buttplate inlet, is a precarve of an Early Lancaster. The reason the buttstock is dished out, is that the buttplate was not properly installed.
I am being totally honest here, telling you what I see. They are kit guns that a beginner put together.
Does that make them bad? Hell no! We all started somewhere. Shoot and enjoy them.
Sorry if I stepped on toes.
 
Flintandsteel said:
Cat,
I hope you didn’t take my reply as criticism. I’ve built well over 100 guns in the last 25 years, so I have some understanding of longrifle construction, a lot of them Lancasters and Lehighs.
I assumed you were asking about styles, and some background on what you had. I was speaking to that.
The Bucks Co. gun is an obvious precarve from TOW, with an A Vernor patch box. Not a bad gun for sure.
The very dark one, with the bad buttplate inlet, is a precarve of an Early Lancaster. The reason the buttstock is dished out, is that the buttplate was not properly installed.
I am being totally honest here, telling you what I see. They are kit guns that a beginner put together.
Does that make them bad? Hell no! We all started somewhere. Shoot and enjoy them.
Sorry if I stepped on toes.
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Not at all Flintandsteel, your post was very constructive.
 

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