R-40 NW Trade Gun

$799.00

I suppose if your business is named SITTING FOX you better have some North West Trade guns on hand. Here’s one all boxed and ready to ship just waiting for you. It’s one of our easiest kits to build and you really can’t screw it up. These guns are very versatile and cover over 300 years of history, so they are always period correct. They are a great blank slate for individuality. You may choose to add some person touches such as scars, victory or coup notches, rawhide or brass tacks for originality.

They were made to a basic pattern by the fur companies and built by over 100 companies throughout Europe and traded throughout the Americas and Canada.

This R-40 kit is a typical example of this type of weapon to fill the needs of trappers, voyageurs and Native American pony riders.

The stock is shaped in plain maple and inlet for an octagon to round 36” smooth bore barrel in 20 gauge. The barrel has been breeched and indexed. The stock is fully shaped and drilled inlet for lock, tang, and plated trigger.

The lock is the L&R flat faced English Trade Gun flint lock. It’s made here in the USA fully guaranteed, and parts are readily available.

Trim is a standard mix of NW Trade gun steel trigger guard and cut sheet brass butt plate, and corrugated brass ram rod thimbles and a cast brass serpent side plate.

R-40 North West Trade Gun kit

All parts are shown in the pic above. However, in the pic, we forgot to show the ramrod, ramrod tip, jag and pin stock which is also included. Everything you need to complete this project is in the box and ready to go.

All you’ll need is a little time, stain or paint, and some bluing, and maybe a few tacks.