This beautiful Maryland style longrifle is stocked is curly maple by contemporary builder Mike Compton. The shaping, tight inletting, and carving show the talent of a highly skilled gun maker. This rifle contains features modeled after the work of John Armstrong of Emmitsburg, Maryland. The dark stained curly maple has wonderful contrasting stripes from muzzle to butt, best viewed in bright daylight. The raised carving is very neatly done with clean backgrounds, and the brass furniture is hand burnished, engraved and shaded for contrast. The 42" swamped octagon Colerain barrel and Jim Chambers Golden Age flintlock are finished to a smooth brown. This rifle is in as-new unfired condition. Trigger reach is 13-3/4", to fit todays average shooter. This rifle weighs 7.5 pounds and has a balance point just behind the rear sight.
The rifle is assembled around a .45 caliber swamped Colerain octagon barrel. The 42" swamped octagon barrel is thickest at the breech for strength, tapers to a narrow waist to reduce weight, and flares at the muzzle to align the sights. Colerain rifle barrels are drilled from solid steel, cut rifled with six “round bottom" grooves with a 1 in 56" twist for a tightly patched round ball. The “radius groove rifling", Colerain uses eliminates the sharp inside corner that accumulates fouling. Colerain rifle barrels are the favorite choice of today's best muzzle loading gun makers, because knowledgeable shooters demand Colerain's accuracy, inside and outside. Founded by two entrepreneurs, Scott Keller and Scott Kelly were tutored by Bob Paris, the famous rifle barrel maker who was first to perfect the technique for production of correct swamped barrels. A 0.08" thick nickel silver blade front sight is fitted behind the muzzle and a flat top rear sight is dovetailed 10" ahead of the breech.
The curly maple stock was stained to a dark brown and finished with hand rubbed oil. A line of raised carving defines the transition from the wrist to the comb. An additional molding runs from the trigger to the toe, giving this longrifle a sleek appearance. Small nickel silver heart inlays decorate the rear of the lock panels. The patchbox is neatly inlet into the dense curly maple stock. Formed from sheet brass the patchbox is very neatly hand engraved and mounted with steel screws. The patchbox door button release is mounted through the toeplate. Beneath the door is a large deep cut cavity for your patches, flints, or jags. The top view shows the flared thumbnail tang, surrounded by raised carving. A nickel silver oval inlay decorates the top of the wrist, and is ready to have the new owner's initials engraved. The tapered comb of the buttstock ends in an early 1800's era buttplate. The brass buttplate has a steel insert dovetailed into the heel. A feature found on some original longrifles by John Armstrong. This feature strengthens the heel, which was a common wear point on antique longrifles. Notice the cheek, which angles wider to the rear. It will recoil back, away from your cheek, making this .45 caliber rifle much easier to manage with full loads. The lock panels taper widest at the rear following the gentle taper of the swamped barrel.
The bottom view reveals the tightly fitted brass toeplate with the patchbox button release mounted through it. The toeplate has an engraved border and folk art accents. The brass triggerguard is burnished to a satin finish and is correctly pinned to the stock, the bow is hand engraved with a four petal flower design. The rifle is fitted with a 3/8" diameter ramrod fitted with a tapered steel tip with 8-32 threads for loading and cleaning accessories. Our side view shows the engraved brass sideplate with traditional third screw. The raised cheek is inlaid with a large nickel silver inlay, engraved with a federal eagle clutching a sheaf of arrows and olive branch. Raised carving flows down from the comb and transitions into the front edge of the cheek. The stock has a checkered panel beneath the cheek, in the style of John Armstrong. To the rear of the cheek the stock is decorated with raised carved scrolls.
Ignition is provided by this well tuned Jim Chambers Golden Age flintlock. The lock plate is shaped with chamfered edges in Germanic style. It has a very strong mainspring, for good sparking. The lock plate is engraved M.C. in the style of a antique John Armstrong rifle with J.A. initials. We recommend using our best 3/4" hand knapped flints for use in this lock. Natural flints spark best, because they are sharper than cut flints. The double lever double set trigger is properly adjusted to allow the lock to be cocked, or the trigger set, in any sequence. Correct geometry gives this rifle a very smooth trigger release. Adjust the screw between the two triggers, inboard to reduce set trigger release pressure, our outboard to require a stronger pressure. Fast ignition is assured by the stainless steel White Lightnin' vent liner, positioned well above the bottom of the pan, centered on the heat of the flash. If your flint longrifle suffers from that infamous slow whoosh-bang ignition delay, study the work of today's best gun makers, and position your vent well centered on the pan, high above the bottom, to serve as a window on the center of the flash.
This fine example of a contemporary longrifle is a piece of American folk art, that your heirs will treasure far into the future. This rifle will be perfect for your next Colonial reenactment or small game hunt. Order it for a ten day visual inspection. You will be delighted. Else if it does not fit you, return it in unfired condition for same-day refund. Postage is your only risk, when you order any one-of-a-kind gun from Track, whether new, used, or antique.
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.440" round balls, pure lead, Hornady, per 100
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.440" round balls, pure lead, hand cast, per 100
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Track's best Black Powder BORE CLEAN Solvent, with flip-top spout
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Ball puller, steel screw, .45 caliber brass collar, 8-32 thread
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Flint priming flask, throws about 3 grains, brass
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English gun flint, 3/4 x 7/8", standard rifle, large Siler, L&R, most others. We are temporarily limiting purchase of this item to twelve per order. We will manually edit your order if your order exceeds that amount.
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Pack of 12 English Gun flints, 3/4 x 7/8", standard rifle, large Siler, L&R, most others. We are temporarily limiting purchase of this item to one twelve pack per order. We will manually edit your order if your order exceeds that amount.
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Fouling Scraper, flat face, brass, .45 caliber, 8-32 thread
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Jag, jagged cleaning tip, brass, .45 caliber, 3/8 rod, 8-32 thread
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Powder measure, brass, adjustable 0 to 120 grains, with spout
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Trapper's MINK OIL TALLOW,
patch grease,
for match shooting & cold weather hunting,
one 8 oz. tin
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MINK-OIL
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$8.59
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Shooting patches, .015" cotton, .40 - .49 caliber, per 100, dry
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OX-15-40-D
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Cleaning Patches, 2" diameter, bag of 100, pure cotton flannel, for .30 to .40 caliber
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Ramrod, 3/8" hickory, 48" long, brass tip, 8-32 thread
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Short Starter, patch & ball starter, with 3/8" hickory rod for .40 to .45 caliber.
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Patch puller, corkscrew worm, steel, brass base, 8-32 thread
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