-
Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.
We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.
Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103
Mackinac Trade Gun - *** LARGE PIX ***
- Thread starter wganz
- Start date
Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:
- Joined
- May 6, 2013
- Messages
- 4,004
- Reaction score
- 8,978
Thanks bud ,very kind .I'm gonna check.them out when I'm.on a computer , at library , not on this dollar store phone ! LOL ....appreciate it !
Wonderful images! I can't get over the inletting, especially on the French gun. Thank you!
The French gun is called a Ped de Vache , or "Foot of the Cow" , musket.
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2022
- Messages
- 2,149
- Reaction score
- 512
Thank you for the "Details". 
Comfortably_Numb
The Evil Mike Brooks
You folks do realize all of these pictures are of a recently made reproduction made of commercially available parts?
It could stand to loose some weight and be stocked in euro walnut. The barrel profile is wrong and the lock is wrong.
I think somebody was offering this gun as a kit some years ago.
I have made far more accurate representations of fusil de trait over the years.
It could stand to loose some weight and be stocked in euro walnut. The barrel profile is wrong and the lock is wrong.
I think somebody was offering this gun as a kit some years ago.
I have made far more accurate representations of fusil de trait over the years.
Last edited:
Thank you!
Conquerordie
40 Cal
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2021
- Messages
- 192
- Reaction score
- 277
I don't understand, does the museum say this is an original piece? Or on display to represent a French gun?
Cruzatte
50 Cal.
I began to wonder if this was a modern recreation. The parts just looked too new. Still, I appreciate the photos. Very instructional.
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2007
- Messages
- 543
- Reaction score
- 726
Kinda looks like a TVM. Advance gun.
Per the curator, that is a 1:1 reproduction of what was found at the bottom of a lake.
And we're off to the races on fusil purity and iSchlong waving. Next will be that it was made in India.
Sigh, this feces is getting tiresome.
ArmorerRoy
40 Cal
Do you have any pictures of the one found in the lake?
Brokennock
Cannon
Yup. Between some of this and the Kibler bag thread,,, if I were new here,,, I'd turn around and walk away (I'm sure many wish I would).
Maybe the forum should have a scale (ruler) along the side of the screen for some of these folks to measure and compare......
Brokennock
Cannon
Careful. No intelligent or possibly productive replies or questions are allowed here anymore.....
That would be excellent to be able to compare this gun to the pics of the sunken gun.
Comfortably_Numb
The Evil Mike Brooks
Oh come on you old ladies! I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of all this is. There was no background attached to this thread. It was "look here at this great old French trade gun found at the bottom of a lake". No other explanation. It's a faif copy of a French trade gun but it's not old and has a few architectural problems. No big deal.
Comfortably_Numb
The Evil Mike Brooks
Now this would be educational.
Comfortably_Numb
The Evil Mike Brooks
It is not. I can guarantee that with out seeing the relic. Fusil purity? Really? Most people don't even understand what the word means let alone what the gun may look like.
Pictures of the relic would be far more educational. Even I could post all sorts of contemporary French trade gun pictures, but pictures of originals are prefered in a case like this.
I realize you went to great effort to post all of this and I probably hurt your feelings. I apologize for that.
Brokennock
Cannon
There are two threads going about this display gun. I thought one of them had more info.....
Could be wrong,,,, often am.
I will ask. Won't hurt.
