Gents:
Pleased to join in here! Read some great discussions here between Captchee (have read & respected your postings for years!) and Kaywoodie, so I'm glad to pull up to the camp fire and join you!
I've been making my own kits (
Fusil de Chasse, left-handed on the bench right now), and have a few fowlers barreled at 42", 44.x" (for the French gun, as measured in Pieds), and 48" then got caught up in Club Butt muskets and man ... am I hooked! Ended up buying a 54" barreled
Fusil de Boucanier in 65-caliber as made by the late John Bosh, using all The Rifle Shoppe parts. That's this one, albeit not the best photo:
Then I had the chance to pick up a 75-caliber Dutch style club butt by Jackie Brown that has outrageous wood on it, for all 60" of her length! And she barely makes it in at a svelte 8-pounds, wearing a barrel by Greg Christian.
She turns heads at the range ... especially when I have to shoot under the covered shooting line and the ramrod hits the ceiling!