Stratton's Fowler, the remnants of a Colonial blacksmith and 7 Years War Soldier | 1705-1758
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I can relate to the emotions felt looking a piece of "everyman" history right here. These are the pieces I love the most. This is what someone who wasn't high status, your average Joe, would have fed and protected his family with and likely passed down to his sons to do the same. Love it! Great stuff Ethan!
That's very interesting. These are the people who made us who we are and where we come from, the common folk.
Rifles are the wide receivers of history. Smooth bores are the linemen.
I really appreciate learning from you. Your passion for the art and love of the tools that are muzzle loaders really comes across. I discovered you from your being on the Townsends channel.
Our family looks forward to more of your videos.
I love that analogy!! Thank you for sharing it and welcome to the channel.
That piece is gorgeous!
Oh mister kibler...... we're gona need a bigger kit.
Yes slow down and look back . Very important words to live by. Thank You
One of the best videos. We do this because we love history and this is what made history the average everyday person. GREAT JOB
I love these early mid 18th century guns... and that gun is gorgeous...
That's a wonderful piece. It talks. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Absolutely amazing!
These videos are outstanding. A great presentation of these firearms.
Thank you
Thank You for these interesting videos on original pieces. Keeping history alive
Thank you Mike
Wow! Cool, I'm descended from his brother William Stratton Jr. as well as his commander Capt. Nathaniel Holcomb. I looked it up, and to add a twist to this Serajah's father William Sr. also died from an earlier attack on the fort. He was one of the men who went in 1709 to lay siege to Fort Carillon {Ticonderoga} and caught one of the many diseases known as "Camp Fever" and died on a ship bound for Connecticut.
Wow.. firearms like this They really make the past come alive. i could look at it for hours just imagining what its done and what it saw. I have always felt that holding a historic firearm like this. its the closest we can get to shaking the hand of the person who used it. You did a phenomenal job on this video. I can really see your passion and respect of these firearms..your video left me speechless.
Excellent video Ethan. Really appreciate you showing us these beautiful firearms.
Thank you Jack!
WOW. Very cool to see that grip you the way it did. " For Love of the Game" You truly do love it and it shows! These RIA vids have been great to watch. THANKS!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind words Andrew.
Excellent video. I truly appreciate the perspective that you presented this rifle. History speaks to us and like this, gets our attention. Thank you.
Thanks Graham!
Greetings from NC! I'm a big fan of this channel and your podcast. I know this isn't an NC gun, but that style of side-plate is very common on mid-19th century rifles from the central Piedmont of NC, particularly the Jamestown school, which have common traits with a lot of mid-century guns.
I am of the opinion that this piece only retains its original barrel and buttplate. That stock profile and lack of beaver tails around the lock and breech looks very 19th century. This is an awesome example of keeping a muzzleloading gun alive through the ages! Great video, thanks for all you do for the muzzleloading community Ethan!
Amazing!!! Thank you
It reminds me of the Hudson fowler.... cool stuff brother..
Because of my growth in the history of muzzleloaders that has been over forty years long, I have graduated to a .40 caliber southern rifle and a .69 caliber smooth bore. And your videos are really enjoyable for the pursuit of this hobby.
Thank you Francis
Wow, what a beauty. The best one yet !
As someone who was a reenactor from the NE, this is one awesome piece! Thank You!
Hey Ethan! There was a time when I did not appreciate the advantages of a large caliber, smoothbore, musket. I preferred rifles. Yet the more I learned, the more I have come to understand WHY someone would, perhaps, prefer a Fowler... particularly if they could only afford one firearm. Thanks for sharing!
Nice old bit of history. Makes me wonder if I should put my name on the stuff I built, maybe some day someone will dig them up and wonder who had them.
VERY interesting gun, of which the only possible connection to Stratton is the barrel which has clearly been restocked, along with the later fittings & furniture, in the early 19th century. I wish I could see the original gun the barrel went with!
Me too!
56 INCH Barrel.... Wow, Extremely Cool 😎, And a Replacement Parker lock you Say? Excellent!
Yeah, huge barrel but has been restocked and locked.
Beautiful! Back when craftsmanship was done with hands, not CNC machines.
Just got to the Judge in my recent re-read. You are exactly right!!
My guess is that we're dealing here with a ca. 1800-1825 gun made with an older barrel.
It is a rifle, but it is also art.
Absolutely! Modern firearms are amazing pieces (well, some are) but they feel like an appliance, Glocks really feels no different than my waffle maker. No soul...🇺🇸
I'm putting my name on my guns...I will live on forever :)
Never forget where your people came from, and what they went through.
The trigger guard on this is not original. New England fowlers followed English patterns and never had square backed guards with pistol grips. My ancestors who fought on Bunker Hill carried fowlers. Hell, nobody in MA who wasn't rich had rifles until well into the 19th century, when the technology was available to cheaply and efficiently mass produce them.
No argument there, sadly many of these pieces have been added back in to accompany the barrel
Maybe you are the guy that can answer a question I've had for a long time. I have three muzzleloading rifles. Rifles and pistols are common everywhere, so where are the muzzleloading shotguns? I'd think probably cheaper and easier to make than a rifle. But you never see one and when you do the price is ridiculous to the third power. I had a double twelve and like a fool I sold it, mostly because it was a custom-made gun with both barrels tightly choked for turkey hunting. I think at the time I bought that one sometime in the early 80's I gave around $350 for it. So, what's the deal with muzzleloading shotguns?
That's a tough one, because you are right- they should be cheaper and readily available but they aren't. I think we are down to Pedersoli being the only one making a mass-market muzzleloading shotgun.
I've heard of folks finding the old Thompson Center models that could swap a shotgun barrel in but now those are becoming collector's items too, so I don't have a good answer for you. Finding a second-hand custom build would be affordable and high quality, but it takes some digging.
You might visit the Muzzleloading forum sometime and keep an eye on their pages for more information.
@@ILoveMuzzleloading I have one more question for you as you seem to know a lot about muzzleloading firearms. I own three modern, strong, magnum rated CVA inlines I also have an ample supply of Pyrodex P loose powder left over from my pistol shooting days that I'd like to use as powder and all components for that matter are through the roof now as far as price. As you know, Pyrodex ''P'' is FFF equivalent powder and really not recommended for anything larger than .45 in a rifle. All three of mine being .50's, can I use it safely in like a reduced charge? Say 90 grains instead of the 100 grains of FF rated powder I normally would use? In a rifle rated for 150 grains. I normally use three of the Tripple Seven Firestar pellets for a 100gr. equivalent load in them. I have used four, but that will run you out from under your hat and is not fun to shoot. lol. So, what do you think?
Wow. 🤤
Dudes would show up for militia duty with beat old fowler's because they didn't want to jack up their fancy expensive long rifles
The militia organizers being the state or the county often provided powder and ball for practice at the monthly muster. The militia preferred that all members have a common bore size. It might be 69 caliber or 16 gauge or maybe 75 caliber 10 gauge or whatever the real military was using at the time was often chosen. Thats one reason You see a lot of fowlers in military bore sizes in that time and place.
This is what we call Americana
Amen
Shame losing guy's with talent that are so ypung.
All of them are s real loss and tradgedy.