Okieboy I believe your original question had to do with the historical correctness of using a flint lock on a half-stock rifle. Seems to me the best we can do, with current information, is to speculate that yeah, they shoulda done it, or maybe the odd 1/2 stock flint was made. But there were @!*% few, if any, of them.
I don't like to be wrong so it pains me to say I took another look at my favorite half-stock flintlocks in Dillin, C T Stahl and J G Wren. Hemm. Both use just one lockbolt, unusual though not impossible, for a flintlock. My speculation is that someone a century ago thought it would look cool to convert these nice long 1/2 stocks to flint. Of course I don't know this for sure, at least without seeing those rifles in person.
Looked through James Gordon'sGreat Gunmakers of the Early West, Volume II/i] The nearest I saw was a percussion conversion of a rifle by Ghrisky,page 288. But they noted if may well have been cut down to 1/2 stock professionally at the time of conversion.
Yeah. I'd say stay with a full stock if you plan to use a flint lock on a long gun.
As far as the Peter White rifle in Dillin, there were two different Peter Whites. One made Bedford style rifles, the other was in Maryland. Haven't looked through any books on Maryland rifles for pix of MD's P White.
Never could find anything in Dillin about rifle dating, except where he had a dated specimen. No mention at all was made of the various "schools" such as Lehigh Valley. I think Errors in Dillin should be a separate thread. Might start one if I get brave, or nuts enough (wonder why this note stayed in italics after Volume II?).
