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Offline yip

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smooth bores
« on: October 17, 2017, 10:52:41 PM »
 were can one get plans on building smooth bores. planning on a smooth bore for next build, never make one before and want to do it right. built plenty of rifles now to broaden  my horizons.
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Offline rich pierce

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2017, 11:23:29 PM »
Smooth bores is pretty wide. Musket?  What country and model? Militia musket?  Trade gun?  If so, Dutch, French, or English?  What era?  Fowling piece?  Continental or American?  Hudson Valley?  New England?  Pennsylvania?

Smooth rifle?  From when and where?
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Offline SingleMalt

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2017, 12:02:43 AM »
Both volumes of RCA have some interesting smooth rifles.  TOW has what looks like an interesting book on fowlers.  https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/278/1/BOOK-FF-S
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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2017, 12:04:33 AM »
http://www.flintlocks.com/

To get some ideas check here. If a kit is what you want then this is also a good resource.
But you'll see different styles and types of both smooth rifles and fowlers. Not to mention rifles.
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Offline Bill-52

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2017, 01:24:49 AM »
You'll find plans for a Thomas Earle Massachusetts fowler on Eric von Aschwege's website, Neahkahnie Flintlocks:

http://www.neahkahnieflintlocks.com/plans.html
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Offline yip

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2017, 01:34:49 AM »
 i'm looking at a Pennsylvania fowling piece
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n stephenson

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2017, 04:01:34 PM »
Tom Grinslade`s  Fowler book is hard to beat. A ton of good examples , and good pics.  Nate
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Offline David Rase

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2017, 11:22:32 PM »
Quote from: n stephenson on October 18, 2017, 04:01:34 PM
Tom Grinslade`s  Fowler book is hard to beat. A ton of good examples , and good pics.  Nate
I second Nate's recommendation for Tom Grinslade's  Fowler book.
David
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2017, 03:49:53 PM »
Buy books, make own patterns, I do for every gun I build. Most patterns that are commercially available look to have been drawn by somebody who doesn't build guns.
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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2017, 08:37:43 PM »
 i just ordered the Tom Grinslade book on fowlers, i hope its the right book i'm looking for.
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Re: smooth bores
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2017, 01:02:19 AM »
Quote from: yip on October 19, 2017, 08:37:43 PM
i just ordered the Tom Grinslade book on fowlers, i hope its the right book i'm looking for.
Yip, I have had the book since it first came out, and still continue ,to find cool things in it every time I look through it again . When you study the American fowler , in the groupings he puts them in they make sense . He points out a LOT of little subtleties that set them apart and, points that group certain ones together . Well worth the money. JMHO   Nate
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