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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: k morgan on December 17, 2023, 08:34:58 PM

Title: copper mounts
Post by: k morgan on December 17, 2023, 08:34:58 PM

were there ever any copper mounted guns fowlers rifles inerested if anyone knows of any

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Hungry Horse on December 17, 2023, 11:12:11 PM

 I’ve seen a couple of SMR’s that have copper ramrod pipes, and wear plates, and side plated. But nothing else is copper. I don’t know if the copper was original to the guns, or replacement parts.

Hungry Horse

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: JeffG on December 18, 2023, 01:24:49 AM

I like copper, for knives and such. I have never seen a gun mounted in copper.

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Mike Brooks on December 18, 2023, 01:49:20 AM

I saw an original at a gun show once. It was a long time ago before they invented cameras.  The internet hadn't even been invented yet. Never saw the gun again after that.

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Stoner creek on December 18, 2023, 02:09:02 AM

Purely contemporary and not assigned to a particular school but I did this one earlier this year with a bunch of copper adornments.

(https://i.ibb.co/s3VLK1H/IMG-4834.jpg) (https://ibb.co/f0xmkNv)

(https://i.ibb.co/3cbTTSN/IMG-4832.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1TN00Rq)

(https://i.ibb.co/S7MFKdg/IMG-4831.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zHBqS7g)

(https://i.ibb.co/gdQxnmK/IMG-4829.jpg) (https://ibb.co/3vVnJ4Z)

 I like working without the rule book sometimes.

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Bob Roller on December 18, 2023, 04:43:01 PM

I don't remember seeing a copper trimmed muzzle loader but when production guns started arriving I heard them referred to
as "Brass and Pine rifles".Mostly half stock types but they were for some people,a beginning that was expanded into what we
now see.
Bob Roller

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Mike Brooks on December 18, 2023, 07:37:18 PM

Nifty gun Wayne.

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Daryl on December 18, 2023, 09:29:11 PM

Agree - looks like a comfortable heads-up shooter.

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Spalding on December 19, 2023, 01:04:43 AM

I really liked how that rifle turned out, Wayne.
Been meaning to ask you how you did the copper tail on that Buck Ridge lock?

Bob

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Stoner creek on December 19, 2023, 01:23:29 AM

Soft solder and a little bit of file work!

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: JeffG on December 20, 2023, 02:14:26 AM

 Stoner creek. That's a beauty!! Nice work.

Title: Re: copper mounts
Post by: Frozen Run on December 20, 2023, 08:42:14 AM

Wayne, you make a beautiful gun, you have a deep love for these old guns and it shows in your work.

Here's something on the topic:

https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=51012.0