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Offline Goo

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latest fowler build
« on: December 31, 2017, 05:41:47 PM »
Hey Folks this is my latest fowler the pics are a bit crude because I`m a rotten photographer.  It is stocked in American walnut I cut from a blank board,  The mold & gun shop colonial lock has had the flash pan area altered.  51 1/4" barrel in 20ga. short octagon at breech with longer sight plane flat(Its not a 12ga because the barrel maker I like only makes them in 20ga.)  the tang screw had a tall head so i shaped it into a minimal grooved rear sight. The RR pipes are formed out of 0.025 brass sheet, trigger guard is an altered type D from mold and gun shop,  trigger is an altered trigger from Mike Lea, butt plate I bent from 1/8 brass sheet.  Tapered hickory ram with brass tips both ends, folded sheet silver front sight. and engraving was done by me after 2/3rds of Mike Lea`s engraving class at the log cabin shop ( I had to leave early because I got sick with apendicitis )  I had help from a couple of generous persons for previous builds so this one was done on my own.     















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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2017, 05:47:10 PM »
You'll like the 20 bore. With that length it should shoot pretty tight. Who made the barrel? I like the sideplate and buttplate too.
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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2017, 05:57:55 PM »
Goo, there is a lot to like about your fowler. I have a weakness for LONG guns. I think you did a nice job. Good Work!!  Nate
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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2017, 07:38:49 PM »
Nicely done! I like the architecture. Good jobs on the handmade buttplate, sideplate, and pipes, too! I don't think I've heard of the "mold and gun shop". Was it a finished assembled lock? How was the pan modified?
Very good job overall!
Nothing wrong with your photography either.

Gregg
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Offline wattlebuster

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2017, 07:54:59 PM »
Well I like it ;D
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Offline oldtravler61

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2017, 08:04:44 PM »
  Goo that's one very nice Fowler ....A gun to be very proud of....!
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Offline Goo

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2017, 08:13:04 PM »
Quote from: Hemo on December 31, 2017, 07:38:49 PM
Nicely done! I like the architecture. Good jobs on the handmade buttplate, sideplate, and pipes, too! I don't think I've heard of the "mold and gun shop". Was it a finished assembled lock? How was the pan modified?
Very good job overall!
Nothing wrong with your photography either.

Gregg

The pan is a bit narrow on some locks alot of people are ok with the flash guard being a bit forward of the breech end of the barrel, but not me.   In order to satisfy my mentors and my personal taste and get the flash guard to line up with the end of the barrel one has to either notch the end of the breech plug, shorten the breech plug to 3/8" or alter the flash guard to widen that area of the lock.  Finished assembled mold and gun shop or Larry Zornes locks are available through muzzle loader builders supply.
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Offline D. Taylor Sapergia

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2017, 08:48:34 PM »
That is a very cool looking fowling piece Goo, and your workmanship is fine.  I personally don't like shooting those French 'pied de vache' buttstocks though.  That serious negative angle of pitch slides up the shoulder upon firing and the comb is hard on my cheek.  But your lines are surely classic.
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Offline Bigmon

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2017, 09:06:37 PM »
I like it, a lot.
How about a few more pics?
Like the lock mod and a RRpipe, maybe the muzzle, Whatever, the more the better.
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Offline alex e.

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2017, 09:44:40 PM »
Very nice! I like it.
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Offline Robert Wolfe

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2018, 01:18:39 AM »
Nice I like it.

What did you change on the lock? Do you have a close up pic of the lock?
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Offline old george

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Re: latest fowler build
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2018, 08:32:09 PM »
very nice lines. I like the long barrels but they don't seem to like me. ;)
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