15 years in the Hudson Valley

[IKE]

NICE JOB!

[axelp]

I know a guy that is about 6' 6" tall that would fit that gun pretty well. 

Very nice. But the Bum looks over fed. He must be sneaking into your hen house.

K

[Darrin McDonal]

Mike I just don't know why, by the first thing that popped into my head was " Paris gun" or Big Bertha. Minus the rails of course but a slightly more portable version indeed.
Darrin

[Robert Wolfe]

I'm thinking he's pulling our leg on the length of that gun. The bum is a midget and that's really a "canoe gun." We all know Mike loves canoe guns....

[Mick C]

I started this gun 15 years ago when I bought the barrel from Benny Coogle. It sat around for years in the corner untill I found the lock for sale on this board. Sometime later I had Fred Miller inlet the barrel. I had probably 3 stocking sessions over the years with this gun finally finishing it last month.
 The barrel is 6' long, 11 bore, and 1 3/8" at the breech. I made the butplate which is 6" tall X 2" wide. The lock is a rifle shoppe lock, english ca. 1690.
 The gun is 7' 5 1/2" long and weighs 11 lbs 6 oz.
 The guy holding the gun is a bum that lives in my barn....

What an amazing fowler!  It reminds me of the one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  One of the days, I very much hope to have have the pleasure/honor of adding a Brooks to my small but fairly select collection.   :-)

[thecapgunkid]

Nice butt, with definite Freudian implications.  If I remember correctly there used to be several of these in Ticonderoga, the Fort William Henry museum before its fire, Johnson Hall, The Herkimer House and in a lot of the historical houses in the Hudson Valley.  Yours'd fit right in behind the glass.  Have you shot it?