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Offline Mike Brooks

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GAHAGAN
« on: October 22, 2012, 03:14:51 PM »
Ken has another super gun on the blog today. ;D
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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2012, 03:35:10 PM »
Too bad he couldn't find a nice piece of wood, knock out curl;great butt plate,Super gun

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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2012, 05:16:13 PM »
Awesome. Love it!  Can't wait to find out more about it.

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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2012, 05:18:20 PM »
Another winner.  The sideplate does it for me. It would have been easy to use a typical New England, military or trade gun sideplate.  A little detail like that often tells a whole story.  
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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2012, 05:22:57 AM »
Thanks guys, I just finished this one. It's based on an original Composite gun I've done before but  added a brass buttplate and serpentine sideplate as well as a simple brass trigger guard. The lock is very early (mid 1600's) and hopefully looks like a smoothbore made up  of various parts to make a serviceable arm. The lock is from casting from The Rifle Shoppe and assembled by a friend of mine Marshall Traux who did a fine job on it. The barrrel is an oct. to round 20 gauge 46" by Getz. I really enjoy these type of projects

Offline Tom Currie

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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2012, 03:49:30 PM »
Very nice Ken, I like the French influenced buttstock.

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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2012, 05:34:37 PM »
It looks like the barrel tang screw goes up through the trigger plate to the tang. Is this an early thing, a regional thing or some other styling?

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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2012, 06:20:58 PM »
Common on early guns and on lower cost guns like trade guns even later.
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Re: GAHAGAN
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2012, 07:54:37 PM »
The screw going up from the bottom of the wrist and threading in the tang was standard practice on even the highest grade guns made in France, and those areas of influence, from pretty much the inception of the flintlock until the Thruain and Le Hollandois style ended around 1660.  It hung on in some regions such as Liege and regions of Italy, well into the 18th century.  It's also of note that this is one of many examples where trade gun technology and style was heavily influenced from deluxe guns of the period.  Typically there was a lag time before these details appeared on lesser quality guns and they often hung on for a considerable time after they became out of fashion for higher grade guns.  An example is the serpentine sideplate.  It first showed up in Paris in the late 1650's and lasted until around 1700 or a touch before, but was used on trade guns until the late 19th century!