I will be building a heavy brass framed H&A style underhammer with a 36inch 1in straight 58caliber GM barrel. I want alot of brass on it and it will not have a forearm,,,,just a long brass pipe at the rear of the barrel for the ramrod. Gonna have express 3 blade sights also..thinking walnut for wood...but not set in stone. I have some nice dark streaked black walnut.
I want a straighter stock(think english / shotgun) than the normal hopkins and I want it a bit wider at the butt than a normal fronstuffer. It needs to be a brass buttplate.
I looked through Track of the Wolf til I got dizzy and my head hurt. I am thinking something like a cross between a fowler/hawken/enfield Mk4.....any thoughts.
Any thoughts about using the as issued enfield MK4 brass buttplate with the little trap door? How would recoil be with that plate and a loosely copied stock style???
I have the front half figgered out...I need help with the rear.
I plan to run this beast as fast and as hard as I accurately can with a PRB. (go ahead and throw my mastadon comments back at me... I deserve it)
All opinions and thoughts are appreciated, this is not going to be a historical PRB launcher by any stretch of the imagination.
Michael