Tennessee Poorboy Flintlock Left Hand Model

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Has anyone here had much experience with a Tennessee Poorboy, from Dixie Gun Works? It says it's made in Japan.
I have come across one in 50 Cal. Flintlock but it'a built for a left handed person. It weighs quite a bit probably 8 or 9 lbs, with a 41" barrel, and overall length is 57". I haven't come across one before but it's an interesting gun.

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The Dixie 'Southern Mountain Poor Boys', in either flint or percussion, are very well made. I still shoot competitively with mine. It's probably 15 years old, in flint. (I converted it from cap, a few ago). They are no longer available, and all parts are gone. L&R, makes a drop in lock for these guns, but only in right hand. A left hander in flint is highly sought after, in my circle. In really good shape.......$700.00-$900.00.

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The hole in the stock is a grease hole.It was filled with grease and when one was getting ready to load you greased your patch before you loaded your ball.As a poor boy gun a patch box was regarded at the time as an expensive optional extra so a grease hole in the stock was the alternative.If you wanted to, you could always add a banna style patchbox which is correct for southern rifles of the period
 
chasseur said:
The hole in the stock is a grease hole.It was filled with grease and when one was getting ready to load you greased your patch before you loaded your ball.As a poor boy gun a patch box was regarded at the time as an expensive optional extra so a grease hole in the stock was the alternative.If you wanted to, you could always add a banna style patchbox which is correct for southern rifles of the period
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I was going to say a compass. :D KD
 
They only made that particular model in .32 and .50 cals. The .36 would be attractive for large varmints like yotes and coons, but the .32 is a great smallgame/plinking calibre.
If that style suits your fancy, check out Tennessee Valley Manufacturing's rifles. I had them whip me up a .54 cal roundball rifle almost 20 years ago. It's a Tennessee rifle, but not a "poor boy". Mine is 42" barrel, 1" across the flats, 1:72 twist, full curly maple stock (Pricey option!), flintlock/caplock convertible, all iron furniture w/ 3 thimbles, nosecap, toecap, sideplate and buttplate. It shoots 1" groups at 50 yards, 3" at 100 yards. Very well made. pricey but not ridiculous. I could have got a Hatfield a bit cheaper, but preferred the lines of the TVM.
Hatfields are also gorgeous, and Pedersoli is building their squirrelguns under licence in Europe. I think Cabela's sells them. TVM and Hatfield are both available as .32 or .36 cal (and other cals up to .62!), Pedersoli IIRC only as a .32, .45 or .50.
 
ttp://www.avsia.com/tvm/
Didn't know if I could use this link....just add an "h" at the front. They make nice rifles. .36 is available, but I would recommend a .32 unless yotes or raccoons were on the menu.
Also check out Hatfield. His rifles are beauts, and perhaps a shade less pricey than the TVM.
IIRC, Pedersoli is reproducing Hatfields in .32, .45 and .50 and selling them through Cabala's or somewhere.
I have a simply GORGEOUS TVM Tennessee.....42" X 1" 54 cal, 1:72 twist, flint/cap convertible, steel buttcap, toeplate, sideplate, thimbles, triggerguard, nosecap. Davis doubleset trigger, Siler locks, full Super Premium tiger maple stock. The work was beatifully executed, and the rifle shoots 1" groups at 50 yards or about 3" at 100 yards with .535 roundballs and 110 grains of FFG or Pyrodex. For what it cost me (about $625 US in 1990), it was a bargain.
I just wish now that I had gotten a .32 instead of or in addition to the .54 cal.; I can hunt small game more often than deer, and I'd get more use out of a smallbore.
 
.32 would be great for me but I fear a little the fouling problem after just 2 or 3 shots with such small calibers. :(
 
True dat....you pretty much HAVE to swipe the bore with a damp (not wet) patch after each shot.
Forgot to mention for Albayo....that stock should be cherrywood, as I recall. Just makes the rifle that much more interesting.
 
I have a question regards the lock on these. I have the same rifle only it is right handed. I find that the lock will not go to half or full #### until the set trigger is 'set' . Is this normal for this gun ? My TC cocks at any 'hammer' positionand then I set the trigger.
 
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