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Width of butt on an 1815 Turkey/bird gun from GA/SC??
« on: October 17, 2010, 05:44:20 PM »
Recognizing that there are not a lot of examples laying around to measure.... If you were building one..sort of a smoothbore precursor to the Southern Appalachian rifle, with some English and some French background, 46" OTR 1 & 1/16" at the breech.Using modified RE Davis Late English lock........got it??.......How wide would you make the butt?? 
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Re: Width of butt on an 1815 Turkey/bird gun from GA/SC??
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2010, 05:56:19 PM »
In that area and era, there would still have been a lot of British influence in the fowlers so I would say to go about 2" wide.  That's how the British guns were made both before and after 1815.
The butt might have been made in a simpler form, but the overall dimensions would have likely been about the same as those of the English.