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Captchee:
Nice looking flint lock. Which is it 45 or a 50 cal? Stain on its stock kind of reminds me of one of Laurel Mountain's tints. Otherwise you seem to be pretty handy at putting of those kits together. By the way is that a L&R I think I see mounted on that rifle? I like the idea of no patch box. Just a plain jane stock is best I always have thought._ Thanks for the pix's Capt as its always nice to see "Built by Captchee" weapons anytime.
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actually its a 62 . Cal 44 inch barrel O to R
the stock is burl cherry cut from a Bing cherry tree .
The color was abstained with lye which was brought back and then re stained with a mixture of Cordovan and Ox blood .
that was followed with a couple flood coats of linseed .
4 rubbed coats . wet sanded between and then 2 thin coats of Tung.
The lock is a Davis Jaeger.
There is no patch box because the gun is a rendition of a type D Trade gun which would have originally been a smoothbore . But the owner wanted a strait rifled barrel so that’s what I put on it .
the hardware , minus the butt plate are my own sand castings from my foundry.
starit rifling isnt modern , the consept has been around about as long as twist rifling