Early 18th C parts gun recreation/imagination

[bob in the woods]

Just finished this early 18th C dog lock musket for myself. The lock is massive at 7 1/4 inches and the barrel is a repurposed Bess .77 ID.  The stock is scraped, stained and painted, then finished with shellac and then varnish oil. No butt plate, but I did put in two rather large round head screws . The two rod pipes are brass repurposed from a Jaegar ?  I've had them for decades. Trigger is cold forged brass
Lock is fire blued, and the frizzen forge case hardened

[whetrock]

I like it, Bob.

[Levy]

I remember working on a couple of muskets very similar to what you've created.  They were recovered from a 1733 shipwreck and had dog locks dated 1703 on the rear of the lock.  One was signed T. Avstin on the tail of the lock and the other one was signed T. Fort.  I don't think they had any buttplates and I remember that ramrod pipes were splayed out in the barrel channel.  James Levy

[Daryl]

That's quite a thumper, Bob. Well done - another 10 bore.

[TF Black]

Very cool gun. Love that big doglock, and the shape of the buttstock.