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smoothrifle is firelock of RIFLE design with a smooth barrel....not just because of a rear sight...if you've ever been the MoFT in Chadron, you'll see lots of "trade guns" with rear sights-but they arent' smoothrifles...the whole "no rear sights on smoothbores/tradeguns" is an NMLRA "thing" and has no real bearing on historical fact
I personally like the "English" Fowlers. Mine is a Pedersoli "Mortimer
Puff - I also hear a lot of people talk down the English fowler as not being as artistically appealing as the fusil...