Club butt fowler by Ken Gahagan

[bob in the woods]

Contemporary Builders site has posted an American Club Butt Fowler by Ken Gahagan.  It's a 10 bore, and it has me salivating !!  This gun is , IMO, a work of absolute perfection ....Wow !

[art riser]

http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2023/12/american-club-butt-fowler-by-ken-gahagan.html

[rich pierce]

Every gun he makes has that wow factor.

[Mike Brooks]

Very high on the nifty scale. That lug has nothing to do with mounting a bayonet.

[Robert Wolfe]

What Rich said.

[Bob Gerard]

Is the brass wrist wrap an actual repair or a feature for that aged and used look?
I am guessing that Mike Gahagan is his brother?

[rich pierce]

Is the brass wrist wrap an actual repair or a feature for that aged and used look?
I am guessing that Mike Gahagan is his brother?

The brass wrist repair is a chosen added feature and they are not brothers.

[Seth Isaacson]

Reminds me of this one which had the same style of long forend cap with the front barrel tennon poking through:
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/4090/3140/b-homer-marked-new-england-club-butt-flintlock-fowling-piece

[rich pierce]

Reminds me of this one which had the same style of long forend cap with the front barrel tennon poking through:
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/4090/3140/b-homer-marked-new-england-club-butt-flintlock-fowling-piece

I was watching that one but it’s later than my favorite era. Lock looks 1800-ish.

[TF Black]

He had three of them at the Carlisle Artisan show last weekend-that one, a similar one without the grip “repair”, and one that was a somewhat older late 1600s Dutch style. The photos don’t do them justice-look amazing in person…

[oldtravler61]

   Awesome

[5judge]

Reminds me of this one which had the same style of long forend cap with the front barrel tennon poking through:
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/4090/3140/b-homer-marked-new-england-club-butt-flintlock-fowling-piece

I was watching that one but it’s later than my favorite era. Lock looks 1800-ish.

    Believe that might be a bayonet lug rather than a redundant tennon....

[Mike Brooks]

Reminds me of this one which had the same style of long forend cap with the front barrel tennon poking through:
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/4090/3140/b-homer-marked-new-england-club-butt-flintlock-fowling-piece

I was watching that one but it’s later than my favorite era. Lock looks 1800-ish.

    Believe that might be a bayonet lug rather than a redundant tennon....

Then you would be wrong. The barrel tenon has a pin through it and its only purpose is to secure the brass muzzle cap. This is a regional specific detail.

[backsplash75]

Neat details, he does great work. Here is a sheet iron one on a late 17thc demi buccaneer by Le Clert of Dieppe. the pin lug for the now missing stock tip pokes through, the iron sleeve has a little pocket/gap between the interior of the cap sleeve and the barrel and the ramrod pipe goes up in that gap.