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Author Topic: latest peice "type D trade gun "  (Read 2756 times)

Offline Captchee

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« Reply #15 on: September 14, 2008, 10:24:17 PM »
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A beautiful one of a kind fowler.  The owner look s mighty serious about his new gun.

 :P  he doesnt like his picture taken . took me a while to con him into that lol
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« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2008, 08:11:59 AM »
Very nicely done!  There should be a very proud owner and a very proud builder!!  Looks like it will be a marvelous all around hunting gun, deer, turkey, squirrel and all the other varmints in between.
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« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2008, 04:15:47 PM »
That is a real masterpice, shoots very good and looks like a dream. Job well dun Captchee.
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« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2008, 05:44:25 PM »
looks museum quality to me......glad its a shooter though
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« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2008, 06:54:35 PM »
A very fine looking gun!! I would be proud to own it for sure. :lt th
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« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2008, 07:10:14 PM »
tanks again fellas for the kind words . i

 steve , i added the improvments that you sugested  . they sure do improve the lines  i think
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« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2008, 07:18:08 PM »
That's one handsome fowler.
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« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2008, 08:44:54 PM »
Nice job Capt! :rt th

(Is that "false ears" in the picture? It's been a long time since I met a few of those fellas and it seems I forget more faces than I remember lately.)

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« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2008, 08:46:25 PM »
no Russ , that would be Daisy toethumb AKA Fred Wiesner
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« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2008, 09:23:03 AM »
Captchee,
Very nice work!
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« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2008, 02:20:49 PM »
A looker and a shooter for sure.  Congratulations Capt., that gun will be appreciated and adored long after we are gone.  Its more than a beautiful rifle.  Its a heirloom for future generations.
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« Reply #26 on: September 17, 2008, 02:37:37 PM »
The figure and finish of that lumber is sure eye candy...very nice.
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« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2008, 08:55:34 PM »
Being kind of ignorant on this topic, what are the differences between this style and types A, B, and C trade guns?
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« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2008, 09:35:25 PM »
well basically  the C is more ornate  then the D . C being earlier then the D .
The G has alittle different wrist , very distinctive , almost  like an egg laid on its side  and some examples show a dramatically tapered stock to the muzzle   .
 Now the other thing is that there are some that disagree with the  whole C, D , G  designation
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« Reply #29 on: September 18, 2008, 07:28:53 PM »
I think the big arguement comes when assigning a C or D or G type to a gun when they are actually classifications of furniture from different time periods, and not a particular style of gun, you could take the same stock and put either cCor D furniture on it and aside from the hardware the guns would look much similar.
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