Author Topic: Dream gun (Read 16440 times)

Daniel · « **on:** February 18, 2015, 01:17:48 AM »

If you all were to buy or build your dream gun what would it be ?
I used to thing a large bored Dog lock musket. Now ??

Cory Joe Stewart · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2015, 01:54:57 AM »

To build it would be RCA #42.

To buy it would be anything from Mike Brooks or Hershal House or Chuck Edwards or Ian Pratt.

Coryjoe

Scota4570 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2015, 01:59:34 AM »

Right now it is this:
http://jamesdjulia.com/item/2324-358/

For a warm up before I build the above rifle I am currently building a loose copy of this:
http://jamesdjulia.com/item/lot-2346-superb-relief-carved-flintlock-john-armstrong-kentucky-rifle-believed-to-be-the-earliest-known-49773/

I was considering buying an original to copy...........until I saw what they sell for. For $150K I'll just have to do my best form photos.

iloco · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2015, 02:08:14 AM »

I have a Mike Brooks fowler, a Ken Netting rifle, a John Bergmann fullstock Hawken, a Joe Schell rifle that is on the way to me.
I want a Roger Sells rifle to go with these. His work is outstanding.

I have a few other rifles and smoothbores but no makers name on the guns. This stuff sure is addictive.

stuart cee dub · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2015, 02:28:37 AM »

I would have something made up after Melchior Fordney ,not any particular gun just features from the ones I liked best ,with a late Ketland lock.The patch box would have to have the horse head and the wood showing between the door and the two extensions on either side of the door so the curl shows through.Fordney's stocking is ergonomic not too much drop and he loved bold lines.

And I would have it built. The simplier stuff I can do but not the great work ,that last 20% of fine lines and proportion is elusive.
I could think of some others I like of course ...but you did say one.

Daniel · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2015, 02:34:25 AM »

A Fordney style gun would be nice fer sure.

Elnathan · « **Reply #6 on:** February 18, 2015, 02:36:34 AM »

I kind of am getting ready to build my dream gun - been fiddling with the plans today, as a matter of fact. A big, iron-mounted proto-mountain rifle with an open-bow triggerguard and a round-faced lock closely based on an original.

I need a smoothbore, though (for a given value of "need," naturally) and for some reason instead of a nice, practical little fowling piece I've hankering after a musket or waterfowling piece. A composite musket or American-made fowling piece cobbled together out of disparate parts sounds like a fun project, with plenty of room for individual taste and without the constraints of copying a particular pattern or even a particular school. The problem is the lock, as there aren't any commercial locks that are really large enough for what I have in mind. I'd either have to assemble one of those sets of raw castings or scratchbuild one.

Kermit · « **Reply #7 on:** February 18, 2015, 02:52:39 AM »

Deep River, North Carolina.

bob in the woods · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2015, 03:01:52 AM »

I would have to go with a Northampton County smooth rifle by Eric Kettenburg. I have admired his work for over 18 years.

Thawk · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2015, 03:16:31 AM »

Too easy.... The next one is always my dream gun.

Randall Steffy · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2015, 04:13:10 AM »

To build would be to copy as able, the early swivel breech by Wm. Antes. To buy would be a Lehigh by Allen Martin or something by Mark Wheland.

Daniel · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2015, 04:25:08 AM »

If I ever get my medical paid I want a 1720-30 French trade gun or a New England fowler.
20 ga. 55 " barrel with iron mounts for the French mixed for the other.

WadePatton · « **Reply #12 on:** February 18, 2015, 04:27:38 AM »

Quote from: Thawk on February 18, 2015, 03:16:31 AM

Too easy.... The next one is always my dream gun.

You beat me to it.

Every gun I build is a dream.

rtadams · « **Reply #13 on:** February 18, 2015, 04:41:02 AM »

2-17-15

Kermit,

Would that be a Deep River school, Kennedy style rifle in North Carolina?

Best Regards,

Robert

old george · « **Reply #14 on:** February 18, 2015, 04:41:40 AM »

I've always wanted one of those club butt fowlers all tricked out with inlays and engravings. Of course it would sit on the wall and gather dust.

weapons are like a horse I'd have the ugliest one alive but it would keep me out in front of the bad guys

geo

Larry Pletcher · « **Reply #15 on:** February 18, 2015, 05:23:26 AM »

I think a carved gun by Bill Shipman would be my dream gun. I stop by his table each CLA show. Bill's rifle titled "Pinwheel Lancaster" is a favorite.
Regards,
Pletch

trentOH · « **Reply #16 on:** February 18, 2015, 05:35:58 AM »

I think I'd go for a wall gun, about .90 caliber or so. Certainly not too elaborate but able to hit a target at a fur piece.
Then I'd need a fort or blockhouse to shoot from......

kaintuck · « **Reply #17 on:** February 18, 2015, 07:27:40 PM »

http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-cla-live-auction-fine-lexington.html

there's one left for me to build................

marc n tomtom

Kermit · « **Reply #18 on:** February 18, 2015, 07:48:10 PM »

Quote from: rtadams on February 18, 2015, 04:41:02 AM

Would that be a Deep River school, Kennedy style rifle in North Carolina?

Yup. I'm deep into reading Bivins' "Longrifles of North Carolina."

Acer Saccharum · « **Reply #19 on:** February 18, 2015, 09:13:30 PM »

I always build my dream gun. But every night brings another dream.

Next will be a Dutch fowler/trade rifle. None known to exist. Until I make one.

Marcruger · « **Reply #20 on:** February 18, 2015, 11:43:25 PM »

I am with you Kermit. Bill Ivey's book is a "Wish Book" like the Sears Catalogs of my youth.

I am inclined towards the slim Salem, North Carolina beauties. Peter Christ's rifles will do. :-) I am partial to the Distlefink (Goldfinch) bird patchbox style. One day soon......

Best wishes and God Bless, Marc

tuffy · « **Reply #21 on:** February 19, 2015, 01:39:23 AM »

Any long barreled barn gun built by our old friend Don Getz.

CW

cmac · « **Reply #22 on:** February 19, 2015, 04:22:37 PM »

Really like this one- http://www.allenmartinrifles.net/gallery-of-guns/swisslancaster-rifle/

little joe · « **Reply #23 on:** February 19, 2015, 05:17:13 PM »

a barn gun such as a Don Getz would have made, with set triggers, and only shoot X,s

Pete G. · « **Reply #24 on:** February 19, 2015, 07:29:27 PM »

Quote from: Thawk on February 18, 2015, 03:16:31 AM

Too easy.... The next one is always my dream gun.

Of course. It always starts out perfectly............and then things start to happen.
Sometimes the dream will even turn into a nightmare; like the time I dovetailed my underlugs into the SIDE of the barrel.

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Author Topic: Dream gun (Read 16440 times)

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