Any muzzle loader shooters here?

[Brian C.]

I found this trigger guard the other day, I have been trying to find the type of flint lock it came off, if you know of any good sites for the flint lock let me know thanks.

 

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[releventchair]

Flint or percussion. Track of the wolf has quite a few in their catalog.Track of the Wolf - Muzzle Loading & Black Powder Guns Kits, Parts, Accoutrements, Rendezvous Gear & Primitive Americana Dixie gun works has a lot also.Dixie Gun Works muzzleloading, blackpowder and rare antique gun supplies. Trigger guards were an item at one time that reflected a geographic location or a "school" of build type and are easy to create a unique or signature type area on by shaping a tang or similar area.. The rearmost part flat piece might be what gives a finding. I don,t recognize your piece at area right around trigger,but I did not look through them all.. The ones with square tabs where they go into stock are for pinning . A finishing nail with head cut off type but some were tapered.

 

[l.cutler]

Almost certainly off a percussion rifle not a flintlock, it is a much later style.

 

[Bum Luck]

Almost certainly off a percussion rifle not a flintlock, it is a much later style.

I agree. Here's what I found:

This one is a Hawken in the Smithsonian. This style trigger guard is called a Hawken-style.

Triggerguard, Rare Hawken Half-Stock, wax cast steel - Track of the Wolf

I shoot a Hawken; nice gun.

 

[Limitool]

Kind of looks like the one my late father used on his homemade black powder rifle. He made this rifle in the late 1950's and I know little about it.

 

[releventchair]

Limit tool,New England is so far the only school of build i,ve seen flat like that guard. The O.P.,s guard I,m leaning towards London,British import maybe.

 

[Brian C.]

Thanks for all the replies.