Most of the people who call me are usually looking for an English Stalking Rifle(single or Double), a late period American Rifle or a very Big Bore rifle...so I don't get to build very many Flintlocks. Once in a while though I get a customer who wants a specific flintlock built.

This is a .40 Caliber Chunk Rifle with a few special touches that the customer wanted.

The Barrel is an Ed Rayl, .40 Caliber, 48 inches long, 1.250" Flat to Flat with 1:62 twist. This makes for a very heavy barrel.
Lock is a Chambers Ketland.
Trigger is R.E. Davis.
Rear Sight is stepped chunk sight.
I hand forged the butt plate to match pictures the customer sent me. The Triggerguad I made in three pieces and soldered together, then set copper rivets...this was also made to match a set of pictures he provided. I also made the front sight and the iron forearm cap and Ramrod pipes and entry pipe. I also made the "t" plate on the off side and the wear plate.
The Stock is Sugar Maple stained with Chambers Nut Brown and finished in oil.
The metal is browned with R.E. Davis rust brown and oil finished.
The only engraving is my makers mark and some letter engraving the customer requested on the "t" plate and the rear sight.
Overall length is 63.5 inches and it weighs 21.5 pounds(hence the Chunky Chunky title) the rest of the specs(LOP, DOC, DOH, etc..) were built to his measurements.

I didn't do any precision load work up or file the sights, since this is a chunk rifle the customer will want to do the fine tuning himself for final load work and sight in. But I did run a ten shot string through it just to make sure everything was working fine and get a rough idea of how it was going to shoot.

Enough typing here's the pics:













Enjoy,

Colin

What a great looking rifle....Love it!

Congratulations to the builder & owner.

Dave

Beautifull work - a fine rifle indeed

Thanks for sharing!

Outstanding workmanship.

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Very Nice rifle indeed!

Beautiful target rifle. Excellent! That will bring home the bacon!
Davy Crockett would approve too. Ol' Betsy The First was a 40-cal.
Mine only weighs 9lbs. 2-oz. but is easier to climb with into a tree stand.
Exactly same load as yours works best in mine, with .395" Hornady round ball.

Colin, the chunk guns surely are a breed unto themselves aren't they. Hope yours puts in a strong showing at the Alvin York shoot!
RIP: The Georgia gunsmith Roy Stroh is building me a .40 Southern poor boy in .40 with a Chambers Late Ketland flintlock and a Charles Burton barrel. I'm really looking forward to having a gun in this elegant caliber.

RIP, that's a good looking rifle and meat maker to boot.

Bill/Oregon, Roy is a good guy and does excellent work, I'm sure you will be very pleased with your rifle.

Colin

Roy is a great guy. I've seen lots of his work and have been thinking of ordering one from him as well.