french fusil de chasse?
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kBob
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Isn't that a generic term like "long rifle" in the US and does it not apply to a relatively small bore , long barreled smooth bore using a patched ball for hunting?
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fusil de chasse
Hello,
"Fusil de chasse" is the french words for "shotgun". More models have two barrels, named "juxtaposés" that means horizontal position, or "superposés", that means vertical position, one barrel over the other.
"Fusil de chasse" can be too a single barrel shotgun : "à répétition" like riot-gun mechanism, or "automatique" with browning mechanism or other model (gaz, cinetic,etc) or "monocoup" (single shot).
Calibers are as same as yours : gauges 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and others names for the smallers ( .410-12 mm, 14 mm, 9 mm).
Sorry for my basic english.
Fron landing beaches in Normandie (France)
Hello,
"Fusil de chasse" is the french words for "shotgun". More models have two barrels, named "juxtaposés" that means horizontal position, or "superposés", that means vertical position, one barrel over the other.
"Fusil de chasse" can be too a single barrel shotgun : "à répétition" like riot-gun mechanism, or "automatique" with browning mechanism or other model (gaz, cinetic,etc) or "monocoup" (single shot).
Calibers are as same as yours : gauges 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and others names for the smallers ( .410-12 mm, 14 mm, 9 mm).
Sorry for my basic english.
Fron landing beaches in Normandie (France)
whughett
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There is one for sale at Gunsamerica, 64 caliber. "shotgun?"
Fusil means rifle (as in Modele 1871 Fusil) or shotgun. De chasse means for hunting.
Black powder muzzle loaders are almost always smooth bore, and are classified by bore diameter in inches. For hunting fowl, they were loaded with shot.
One sees replicas used in reenactments of the French and Indian War.
Black powder muzzle loaders are almost always smooth bore, and are classified by bore diameter in inches. For hunting fowl, they were loaded with shot.
One sees replicas used in reenactments of the French and Indian War.
I'd say jrbaker90 should check out www.frontierfolk.net. There are a lot of reenactors over there who'd be able to help him and even a forum dedicated to New France.
For the purposes of this discussion, I think he's referring to a graceful smoothbore hunting style French flintlock in about .60 caliber. They were in use in the colonies during the French fur trade from the late 1600's until the end of the French and Indian War, and some surely survived a lot longer than that. Some turn up on the frontier folk trading post and on the traditional muzzleloading forum, and also at Track of the Wolf. I've handled a few, and there's a local builder named Alex Efremenko who's done a lot of research on them.
For the purposes of this discussion, I think he's referring to a graceful smoothbore hunting style French flintlock in about .60 caliber. They were in use in the colonies during the French fur trade from the late 1600's until the end of the French and Indian War, and some surely survived a lot longer than that. Some turn up on the frontier folk trading post and on the traditional muzzleloading forum, and also at Track of the Wolf. I've handled a few, and there's a local builder named Alex Efremenko who's done a lot of research on them.
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Fusils to the English were lighter weight, smaller bore guns than the standard infantry musket. To the French, it was something different and Fusils de Chasse meant hunting guns. The French use the word chaussers for hunters and chaussers de pied for foot riflemen.
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Fusil de chasse, "gun for the hunt".
Here is mine I built up years ago, 20 balls to the pound, 46 inch swamped smooth bore and light weight. I really, really, like it, never fails to come up to shoulder dead on target.
Here is mine I built up years ago, 20 balls to the pound, 46 inch swamped smooth bore and light weight. I really, really, like it, never fails to come up to shoulder dead on target.
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Yeah, normally in black powder circles in North America, if you say Fusil de Chase folks think you are talking about something very similar to the smooth bore in the above photographs. NOT to be confused with an English Trade Gun, a Carolina Gun, or a NW Trade Gun (although in the French language calling any of the latter a fusil-de-chase would be correct as they are all hunting shotguns). Some may even say Fusil Fin which in BP circles is a rather fancy flintlock gun with embellishments, akin to what the British called a "chief's grade trade gun". You will find British and American references to "fuzees" for sale in colonial and fur trade sources..., which is a phoenetic spelling of the pronounciation of "fusil". The British tend to pronounce the word as it is spelled, hence the 23rd Regiment "Royal Welch Fusileers".
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