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Offline Mike C

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English half stock origin
« on: May 31, 2024, 11:40:15 PM »
About when did English gun makers begin to build half stocked fowlers and rifles?
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Re: English half stock origin
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2024, 01:54:16 AM »
Hi,
Half stocked English guns go back to the 17th century but they were not the norm and rare.  Half stocked sporting guns started to become fashionable during the 1760s and then became very common after the 1780s.

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Offline JV Puleo

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Re: English half stock origin
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2024, 04:05:25 PM »
The combination of a half stock and a hooked breech made breaking down a fowler to carry in a coach much easier. The class of people who bought fowlers did, as a rule, travel in wagons.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: English half stock origin
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2024, 04:51:17 PM »
I had one that dated late 1670s
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Re: English half stock origin
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2024, 05:41:08 PM »
A couple of 1725-35 examples from English paintings





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Offline James Rogers

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Re: English half stock origin
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2024, 05:49:09 PM »
This is a silver mounted half stock of about 1725-30 that was restocked in the last quarter of the 18th century bwith a lock by Ketland.














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