New early Hudson Valley Fowler

[TF Black]

Late to the party here, but Ken’s Hudson Valley fowlers never disappoint!

Ken, love the flat lock – haven’t seen that before on one of your HVFs and it looks great. Beautiful figure in the stock as well…

Jay

[Woodpecker]

Any chance you can give the measurement for the barrel? Length, OD of the breech and muzzle? I'd like to understand the sight angle with the tang groove. That is beautiful work.

[Doug Frank]

I too am late to this party, but please permit me to say how great it is to see this fowler.  That large early Dutch lock is just great.

Doug Frank

[Ed Wenger]

Beautiful, Ken!  Thanks for posting!  Best,

Ed

[k gahagan]

Thank you all for your comments. Woodpecker you had some questions about the raised portion on the tang that forms the rear siting plane. The barrel is 56" long with a breech dimension just under 1 3/8ths. It's a 12 gaUGE bore with .060 walls so the o.d. on the muzzle should be about .845. With the tiny front site that is very low to the barrel you can assume this rear site would not really be effective other than a little left to right reference. There are many variations of this feature on these breeches but none would truly work as a site.

[Robert Wolfe]

Wow, great stuff Ken as usual. Always a pleasure to she your stuff. One of these years I need to do a HVF.