bushfire
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Post by bushfire on Oct 17, 2022 15:24:34 GMT -7
I really wanted a custom/semi custom flintlock for a quite a while. We no longer have any builders in this country and not many US makers are willing to send them over. We can get Chambers here but I don't have the time to do a whole gun myself with 3 young kids and a legal timeline on completing builds. I managed to find a 54 Green River Rifle Works in flint and grabbed it a while back. Thing is I don't know what style if any it is. I won't be offended to find out its not authentic but I would like to know. The gun itself is great, shoots point of deer out to 100 m easy enough and that's a big tick for me as a hunter. What is it?
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Post by paranger on Oct 17, 2022 16:54:58 GMT -7
The stock lines and lack of side plate say southern "poor boy" to me. The lock looks late Ketland, maybe?
But there are others here more longrifle savvy than I...
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Post by bushfire on Oct 17, 2022 18:07:00 GMT -7
Sorry for the poor photos I removed the flashguard when i bought it, I'm pretty confident it's a large siler lock.
I'd be content to know it's a poor boy if that's the case.
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Post by paranger on Oct 17, 2022 18:36:14 GMT -7
Sorry for the poor photos I removed the flashguard when i bought it, I'm pretty confident it's a large siler lock. I'd be content to know it's a poor boy if that's the case. Siler is the modern designer/manufacturer. "Bud" Siler started making reproduction flintlocks in the 1960s.
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Post by brokennock on Oct 17, 2022 19:26:57 GMT -7
Overall the lines are southern mountain to my untrained eye. The biggest thing that stands out to me as odd, is that it has a cap box, instead of a patchbox, with a flintlock.
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Post by artificer on Oct 18, 2022 4:35:24 GMT -7
High Gents,
I THINK that may be one of GRRW's Full Stock Leman Trade Rifles.
Gus
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Post by bushfire on Oct 18, 2022 5:02:35 GMT -7
High Gents, I THINK that may be one of GRRW's Full Stock Leman Trade Rifles. Gus Thank you, The seller said it was a leman but I've since had people tell me because of the double set trigger it couldn't be the case. That's what started my confusion on the matter
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Post by artificer on Oct 18, 2022 5:25:22 GMT -7
High Gents, I THINK that may be one of GRRW's Full Stock Leman Trade Rifles. Gus Thank you, The seller said it was a leman but I've since had people tell me because of the double set trigger it couldn't be the case. That's what started my confusion on the matter G'day Bushfire, I first ran across GRRW rifles at the 1974 Spring Nationals of the NMLRA in Friendship, IN; which once again shows my age. GRIN. Double set triggers and that patch box were some of the added/extra cost options on the Leman and did not come on the standard model. That's what may be confusing some folks you know about the rifle, if they didn't know that. Gus
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Post by hawkeyes on Oct 18, 2022 7:24:36 GMT -7
Gus nailed it.
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Post by artificer on Oct 18, 2022 18:39:05 GMT -7
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