And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hawken style percussion rifle with hooded? front sight, a ladder rear sight, and different butt plate. Historically they had full octagon barrels and half stocks.
Look again Leonard - I see three flats, unless I am having a brain fart, which means octagonal. Very few barrels are hexagonal - in fact I have never seen one.
The black powder geeks in my neck of the woods would call that a 'Spaghetti Plains Rifle' - probably a repro made in Italy...
My mistake, the barrel is sitting lower in the forend than I thought. If it was riding a little higher, one could see two more facits. BTW, there were a few rifles with hex barrels.
Yeah, I worked in a muzzle-loader shop for three years and never saw a hexagonal, either on repro's or antiques. The two vertical sides are simply lined up well enough with the camera that they don't show.
One of the the things I have come to appreciate in modern firearms is, for lack of better definition, lock speed. On a modern firearm, you pull the trigger and discharge is all but instant. Shooting a flintlock or caplock you have to hold your aim for a measurable amount of time after the trigger is pulled.
Hawken style percussion rifle with hooded? front sight, a ladder rear sight, and different butt plate. Historically they had full octagon barrels and half stocks.
ReplyDeleteBased on the image, I am going with a hex barrel. The two sloped
ReplyDeletesides above the forend suggests 6, not 8 sides.
Look again Leonard - I see three flats, unless I am having a brain fart, which means octagonal. Very few barrels are hexagonal - in fact I have never seen one.
ReplyDeleteThe black powder geeks in my neck of the woods would call that a 'Spaghetti Plains Rifle' - probably a repro made in Italy...
My mistake, the barrel is sitting lower in the forend than
DeleteI thought. If it was riding a little higher, one could see
two more facits. BTW, there were a few rifles with hex
barrels.
Yeah, I worked in a muzzle-loader shop for three years and never saw a hexagonal, either on repro's or antiques. The two vertical sides are simply lined up well enough with the camera that they don't show.
ReplyDeleteOne of the the things I have come to appreciate in modern firearms is, for lack of better definition, lock speed. On a modern firearm, you pull the trigger and discharge is all but instant. Shooting a flintlock or caplock you have to hold your aim for a measurable amount of time after the trigger is pulled.
ReplyDeleteIt is a Thompson Center Renegade 50 or 54 Cal muzzle loading rifle.
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