English Sporting Flintlock

[Feltwad]

Enclosed are images of a 1740-80  English sporting flintlock shotgun.The stock is of plain English walnut with a long narrow wrist  with silver wire inlay The trigger gaurd which is the same period has a Husk finial,there is also a brass band in the forstock which is the join of the full stock.A good example of the period
Feltwad
A Flint Lock will not secure a chicken house door

[Feltwad]

With no responce to this topic,is there no interest in original flintlocks?
Feltwad
A Flint Lock will not secure a chicken house door

[greyhunter]

Of late sir I have noticed a downward trend of posts and replies. I don't know what is in the wind, but there are a lot of old friends abscent. Of note Hawkeye,Old Salt,Hota, Ironwood,Riverrat,Butternut,Ohio Joe, (altho I think he is back with a new alias). The list,sadly, is long. New trails,new friends, and new comittments? Who knows, but I miss those guys. I have posted recently asking for prayers for the folks in Pa. and Ny. devastated by the recent flood, no response. I hope it turns around, a tree not watered will not stand. I appreciate your posts and fine pictures btw. Let's stir the embers lads and get the fire up. I sure do miss ol Hawkeyes' smily avatar. I hope they ain't all gone under!  

[Uncle Russ]

Greyhunter, your observations seems to mirror my own at times.
And, like you, I also miss the friendly spirit many of the oldtimers brought to the forum.

Still yet, it is still summer in my neck of the woods and many of the good folks are still out rondy'vooing and kicking up their heels, or else getting ready for the hunt that's coming up  soon.

Uncle Russ..

[Feltwad]

Yes I must agree with Greyhunter and Uncle Russ I have noticed a downward trend to posts,it seems to have lost the enthusiasm not like when I joined in 2007 which is sad.
Feltwad

A Flint Lock will not secure a chicken house door

[Roaddog]

Feltwap We do love to see the grate old guns you post. It's the onley time we get to see such fine guns and lern abought them.
 I too am hoping things come back to speed around here. I miss the old gang.

[sse]

Old gang, new gang, whatever...this is the internet, they come and they go.

[Riley/MN]

Been gone since Sept 1, so just now seeing this - KEEP POSTING!

Thanks Feltwad.

[gunmaker]

The Only way we (most of us anyhows) will ever be able to build a true reproduction of any period gun is STUDY we really need all the pic;s we can get............thanks Feltwad for being in a place where you can let us colonials see what really is. ............Tom

[wattlebuster]

Im new on this forum so I have just now seen this thread. I do love seeing pics of old originals, and thes are some fine ones

[sse]

Im new on this forum

Welcome to ya...

[Sir Michael]

Feltwad, is that a brass washer/splice just behind the entry thimble on the fist gun pics you posted?

[Hanshi]

The absence of some old faces/names disturbs me, as well.  This happened on another forum and basically put it on life support.  I sincerely hope we'll recover.

Original guns fascinate me and getting to see pics on the forum is educational.  After all, many contemporary guns are copies (more or less) of particular originals.  These old guns are our roots.  Keep 'em coming and post, post, post.

[Fletcher]

I have been working out of state a lot.  I do look at the site a couple of times a week but just don't have a lot of time to comment.

I do remark on things I know a bit about.  I just admire the other stuff that I don't know.

You can tell both the number of views on a post and the number of replies.  That is a good way to tell if folks are looking.

Also, when a post gets buried in a lot of other traffic, folks can pass it by and it falls down the list.

It is good to look in the topical index and well as the new post menus.

Quite often a good post gets 'bumped' back up by someone who responds late - having missed it the first go round.

Keep up the good stuff - Feltwad and everyone else.  Times are tough and I fear about to get a lot worse.  We need a little joy - if only to look
at a few nice things.

[Hota]

Well i work in cyber investigations for a fortune 50 company. Great job but the past three years has been insane in the cyber world. It is a battlefront that gets zero recognition. There are long stretches of time where my down time is dedicated to my kids and being as far away from computers as i can. I am really trying to force myself this winter to stay in touch with my online friends, work on my flintlocks, hides, and other traditional projects and spend a lot of time in the woods and at the cabin so i dont lose my mind. I am very very fortunate to have friends like you that welcome me each time i can make it back. This year, more than any other of the recent past i have really needed to get back to my traditional roots. My health and sanity depend on it. If computers go to hell then thats great, as long as my traditional skills stay with me. We are so volitile being dependent on computers for our nations infrastructure. Thanks again for making me feel like i never left.

Feltwad, thanks for sharing the pics!