Here's just an example of firearms available from Doc White. Doc is the man that started GRRW 40 years ago and is now involved with GRRW Collectors Association guns.
To see all of his weapons go to this website at:
http://whitemuzzleloading.com/custom-traditional/
We will be changing this page as more of the gentlemen from GRRW CA complete guns they have had for 30 - 40 years. At their age its time to start moving some of their treasurers to those that will enjoy them as much as they have building them.
What is shown is just a sampling of some neat black powder traditional firearms, enjoy.
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SNAPPHAUNCE
Early Snapphaunce rifle, modeled after the snaphaunce musket brought over by John Forbes perhaps on the Mayflower. If you want a really early rifle, this is it. The Forbes gun was made probably about 1590-1610.
The barrel is a Colerain, 50 caliber swamped, 38 inches long, the lock manufactured by Doc from a kit supplied by the Rifle Shoppe. The stock is plain walnut, commonly used early on. There is no figure but the wood is lovely with solid, tight grain, oil finished. I know that it looks clumsy, but it has the same basic lines as a Browning Citori shotgun.
It throws up to the shoulder a lot better than you would think, the trigger is soft and fully controllable and it sparks nicely. Lock time is far faster than you would think. Many were imported into the New World during the 1600’s and early 1700’s. They were the best there was at the time.
FOR SALE- BEST OFFER POR OBO
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KING GERMAN LEGION RIFLE
Kings German Legion Rifle, used by George’s personal regiment of mounted troops, known to be extremely professional and effective in the Napoleonic conflicts. This short rifle has a 62 caliber, swamped octagon 28.5″ barrel mounted in a Long Land style fullstock, which means it looks a lot like a short Brown Bess with a Baker style flintlock and iron ramrod. There was no bayonet or sling swivel. The rifle was carried in a boot. The walnut is elegant, as were many of the originals, the King personally picking up the bill for accoutrements.
This will make a terrific hunting rifle. It’s short and handy, throws a big ball for big game, has an iron ramrod, double leaf rear sights and broad butt to reduce felt recoil. It’s a hard to beat combination.
This fine rifle is now at Track of the Wolf. Go To their website,
trackofthewolf.com, click on guns and then flintlock guns. Their photos are bright and beautiful. Deal with them if you want to buy it.
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8 BORE DOUBLE SMOOTHBORE RIFLE
8 bore double ‘smoothbore rifle’, that’s 83 caliber, in a beautiful, close-grained, very solid walnut stock, meant to shoot a 2 oz. patched ball at truly big stuff, like rhino and elephant. Barrels are 24 inches long, side by side, regulated to group at 25 yards with up to 300 grains black powder. Weight came out at about 12+ lbs. Should be a grand back up gun. I even bought a Led-Sled just so I could regulate this one.
And this is what we end up with, a symphony of blue, brown and silver fit for any elephant in the world, think of the music it will play in the jungle.
The African hunter Selous talks about using such guns as this at 10-15 yards on elephant, of course with a back up gun or two and a loader at his elbow for each. He carried coarse powder loose in a bag over one shoulder and hardened balls in another over the other shoulder, loading powder ‘by the handful’. Only the first shot was patched. Any load after the first was bare ball for speed. He took pride in putting down a half dozen of the big gray brutes in a flurry of shooting, then going on to another herd. And all this for just the ivory. He made a fortune doing it. Think of all the adventure! think of all the risk!. Think of all the hard work. Ugh. doc
FOR SALE- BEST OFFER
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EARLY SIDE BY SIDE COMBINATION RIFLE - SHOTGUN
Early side by side combo rifle-shotgun, conformation of locks looks almost like it was converted from flintlock. That or was a transitional arm come into being just as the new percussion principle was adapted into the market around 1815. There is a 12 bore shotgun barrel on the right and a .500 caliber fast twist shallow groove rifle barrel on the left. The barrels are symmetrical, the 12 bore barrel is fitted with a Colonial brand inter-changeable choke, the rifle barrel has a fast 1-28 twist and shallow grooves for shooting heavy elongated slip-fit bullets or sabots.
The combo double is ready for whitetail or turkey or both. It weighs about 9 lbs. but like most doubles it handles quite well, balance is excellent.
FOR SALE- BEST OFFER
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NW TRADE GUNS
This gun was stunted from birth, the buttstock was cracked and the fore-end crooked , so I amputated to save its life and it became a Blanket Gun. Made me feel like a Civil war surgeon. DOC
It sports all the usual features of a North West gun in 20 bore, except no butt plate or ramrod pipes. The Indians may have hidden these guns under blankets but they were more often used horseback like a heavy dragoon pistol, one shot then it became a club. I applied a few tacks to Indian it up some, and it grew some beads and feathers, too. The barrel illustrated is the back end of the real thing. Try a .600 caliber ball and about 80 grains Black powder. It will brighten up your night.
The barrel was custom made by Kelley, about 14″ long, tapered and banded. The lock is an English Trade lock by Davis, the trigger is meant to be pulled with two fingers, just like your Indian buddy pulls a bowstring.
FOR SALE- BEST OFFER POR OBO
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HAWKENS
A reproduction of my ‘Favorite’ Hawken. Done as original as I can get it, with case hardened and antique rust blued furniture.
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Sorry, but it’s already SOLD.
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Coming sometime (sooner or later) in no order of appearance:
- Brown Bess flintlock musket. long land pattern, classic 1742 brass fittings.
- Several Double flintlock fowlers in 12, 16 and a slim gal in 20 gauge
- .615 cal double percussion African rifle for 900 grain SuperSlug
- .730 cal percussion double African rifle for 1200 grain SuperSlug
- Fergusson 62 caliber turn-breech rifle, action found on King’s mountain after the battle, re-stocked by a Christian Springs gunsmith. Looks like an iron mounted southern flintlock rifle with a Fergusson breech
- 1795 US flintlock musket
- A Dutch fowler or two
- 1816 flintlock 69 cal musket with original restored rusty lockplate, metal rustified to match the plate.
- 1/3 scale 1.2 inch rifled cannon by Norman Wiard
- 5/8 scale rifled breechloading cannon by Whitworth
- Leman fullstock flintlock cross-mountain rifle with original Leman, Lancaster marked barrel
- Schuetzen 10 lb target rifle Denver style
- Hagerstown C. Hawken flintlock
- Break open 12 bore double percussion shotgun 209 ignition
- 12 smoothbore X .69 rifled side by side double flintlock
- pair 62 caliber percussion & flintlock round ball double rifles
- 69 caliber percussion round ball double rifle
- 69 caliber short fullstock Jaeger flintlock double rifle
- Kentucky stocked BB gun
- Beyer flintlock rifle
- flintlock mortar gun for tennis balls
- Southern perc rifle left hand with original Golcher lock
- Wender flintlock 58 rifled & 20 Smoothbore iron mounted English style
- English 12 gauge late half stock flint fowler, original Manton flintlock.
- Several heavy caliber Plains and Hawken pistols
- GRRW Collectors Association rifles, Bridger Hawken, Leman, Poor Boy and mountain pistols
- Poor boy, GRRW style
- several early doglock and snaphounce pistols
- English Doglock fowler, the precursor of the NW Gun.
- British Sargeant’s carbine 62 cal
- Nock Volley gun in 45 caliber
- 7 barrel goose gun in 32 caliber
- 3 Hawken fullstock percussion and flintlock rifles in 50-54 caliber
- 5 Hawken Bridger half-stock percussion rifles in 50-62 caliber
- Steel barreled flintlock Blunderbus about 6 gauge
- Haga flintlock rifle
- Fusil Fin 20 bore
- 4 Tennesse / Southern Mountain rifles
I'll be back shortly.
