Stepped wrists are found on guns from Spain, Italy, and Germany. Of course, German gunsmiths is how it "got here". I have found that primarily, step wristed guns tend to come from the northern half of the German lands, more or less. The form of the butts vary, but generally don't display any specific regional trait (with the exception that round-bottomed stepped wrist stocks are a Prussian form, and tend to be found coming from Prussia and surrounding areas...or by gunsmiths imitating the Prussian form....so... can be from anywhere! Clear as mud, right?. Very similar guns were also made in Sweden, and can prove tricky until one learns the details and "feeling" of the guns).
Only ones of mine that I have photos of. A German rifle of Prussian form. Basically after the Pistor miliary rifle (there are a lot of this type of military rifle that still exist, all of the same basic form, as many of the Protestant states were copying the Prussians). I'm actually not a fan of the distinctive round cheekpiece (most German guns, including Prussian, don't have them), but at least the customer let me make a different sideplate other than that hideous Brown Bess-looking lumpy thing...
This is not a great example of my work, as I probably built it over 10 years ago (and reworked twice), but it's the only finished gun of my own that I actually have! (the carpenter's house is the one with the leaky roof) I intend to remedy that situation soon...
Can't see much here. This gun is nearly as old as the one of mine. I wish I had it back, actually, just so I could take a lot more wood off the wrist behind the breech tang! Kinda fat around there. Otherwise, I still like the gun. An interpretation of a pre-Revolutionary Northampton county gun, based on a conglomeration of early Northampton styles.
