correct fowler

[Daniel]

Looking for info on what would be a correct gun for North Carolina last quarter or half
of the eighteenth century . For a farmer . I presume a fowler, but what type?

[Stophel]

A Carolina gun, of course! A walnut or beech stocked English gun imported in great numbers. Around the Revolution and after, the gun type options may have been a little greater to include rifles... What that might look like is another question! 

[James Rogers]

Agreed and as I said in my post on another board, I would personally go a half step better than the Carolina gun with cast mounts in brass ( see the Wilson piece on pg. 53-56 in Of Sorts for Provincials by Mullins.) While I have found records to hickory being sent to England for ramrods I have not seen enough evidence to suit me to use black walnut on an English build so I would go with English walnut or like Chris mentioned, beech if you choose a Carolina gun.

[Daniel]

Thank you . I will go with some sort of English Fowler.
Been going through my books and other research, but both
boards have been a great help.

[bob in the woods]

Take a hard look at Chamber's English fowling gun / Officer's fusil 
Mine is stocked in cherry, and is becoming my favourite upland game gun.
It is a superb piece, and with it's 42 in barrel, handles like a dream.

[Daniel]

I am researching every where. My Family came from Ireland and settled in North Carolina in the 18th century.
I think by what we have found were farmers. When they came to Missouri in the 1830s were miners and tailors
.