This North West Trade Gun was built by Rick Baker, ColonialRifleSmith. The Gun features a .58 cal. 34.5-inch octagon to round barrel. The barrel is repurposed from an 1842 Austrian Lorenze Musket. The barrel is in excellent condition and has been honed to a fine smoothbore surface. Due to the […]
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Restored Colonial Brown Bess/Officers Fusil Musket .58 cal. By Rick Baker, ColonialRifleSmith This musket has a unique story. I picked up this stock with all the brass furniture at a French & Indian War event I attended June 2024. I felt that I had enough parts in my shop to […]
This North West Trade Gun was built by Rick Baker, ColonialRifleSmith. The barrel is an unmarked .75 cal. tapered round smoothbore barrel, 25-inches long. The lock is an L&R Trade Gun Lock. This lock features a very fast timing with the trigger set for a light touch off. The forearm […]
This Hawken Plains Rifle was built by Rick Baker, ColonialRifleSmith. The rifle features a .45 cal. 26.5-inch unmarked barrel. The barrel is 7/8ths across the flats. The lock is a Russ Hamm Percussion lock with a very fast throw. The nipple uses #11 caps. The stock is a very dense […]
This John & Caleb Vincent Ohio Plains Rifle was built by Rick Baker, ColonialRifleSmith. The rifle features a 37-inch unmarked barrel. I believe it to be a Green Mountain barrel due to the rifling style and metal density. 13/16 across the flats. The front sight […]
The French C model was the first model trade gun introduced in Canada circa 1680-1730. It was rather ornate, trimmed in brass with matching Baroque engraving and matching floral finials on both the butt plate a trigger guard and a pierced side plate and thumb piece. This Type ‘C’ French […]
This freshly completed, French Privateer Boarding Gun, is beautifully built by Rick Baker, ColonialRifleSmith. Made with all the good stuff. You’ll never see another one like it. This eye-catcher will make a great wake-up call at any Rendezvous or Candle Shoot. All you Pirates out there, PAY ATTENTION!! No campfire, […]
We choose to show this finished gun in the ‘One of a Kind’ section because it is definitely one of a kind. This gun is actually the prototype for the K-4-10 kit sold here on ‘Sitting Fox Muzzleloaders’. This gun is inletted differently than the current K-4 Kits. Built by […]
We choose to show this finished gun in the ‘One of a Kind’ section because it is definitely one of a kind. This gun is actually the prototype for the K-4-10 kit sold here on ‘Sitting Fox Muzzleloaders’. This gun is inletted differently than the current K-4 Kits. Built by […]
Here’s the NEW K-4-10 ga. Blunderbuss kit available now by special order! Here are the specs: These stocks are a little more slender in shape to more closely follow the slimmer barrel profile. The barrels have the same 2″ flare, so the entire gun has a very pleasing profile. HERE […]