Trade Gun Kits

This is the only place to get an English style trade gun kit.

 

These kits are made one at a time as I receive the order. Delivery time may be 3-4 weeks depending on the work load currently in the shop.

 

 All of the brass parts are cut and filed by hand for the English kits. The barrels come with the breech plug installed.

 

The stocks are shaped from just forward of the lock back to the butt. They are inlet for the barrel, lock, sideplate, buttplate and trigger. Pull is about 13½".

 

These kits can be finished with minimal work compared to many other kits. They can be stained and a finish applied or painted and decorated as many of the originals. Helpful instructions are included!

 

Examine your kit carefully before you start any work on it.

Kits are non-returnable once you have started cutting!

 

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Please note that the brass parts are not engraved on the kits.

 

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Available in 20 or 24 gauge smoothbore. Barrel lengths up to 47".

NO other bore sizes, pull lengths or left hand versions are available at this time so please don't ask.

 

 

 

 

As of May 16, 2026

 

I have six barrels in 20 gauge at this time.

I have only one 24 gauge on hand.

 

Locks from R. E. Davis are probably never going to come so I will now be using the Chamber's round faced Virginia lock on the trade gun kits.

 

I will be working on new Trade gun patterns that will use the Queen Anne lock from L&R that will sell for a little less.

 

 

Watch for updates.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

For finishing supplies click here.

 

 

 

 

 

I have custom Rice barrels being made for me now. They are profiled on the Bumford trade gun in the Colonial Williamsburg collection.

These are 47" long with a 1" breech oct-round tapered and I can cut and re-crowned to shorter lengths if desired. They are in 20 (.62) or 24 (.58) gauge. These are the only barrels I will be using now as they are more period correct than the Colerain ones I was using.

 

 

The Long Awaited

Type G Trade Gun Sights are

now back in stock!

Click here to order.

Original sights from archeological digs.

 

 

Click on image for more information

Bumford Trade Gun circa 1750-1760

 

 

Early English Trade Gun circa 1740

 

 

Type 'G' or Carolina Trade Gun Kit circa 1760

 

 

Note: The term 'type G' is used here only because this is the style commonly given that name today. It is a term

T. M. Hamilton coined in his book "Colonial Frontier Guns" to separate the different styles of parts

and is not an 18th century designation. There are no complete guns of this type that survive today.

 

 

Have me assemble the kit for you.

 

Choose the kit options you want from the list above.

Then add whether you want it in the white or fully finished.

Please note that there will be a 3-4 month delay

as I always have work in progress.

 

Your kit assembled in the white.

You do the polishing and finishing of the wood and metal.

 

Add $1200  

 

 

Your kit assembled, engraved, stained and finished.

If you want the vine-work paint, there is an additional cost of $200. Contact me if you wish this option.

The blue or red paint is no additional charge. Just let me know how you want yours finished.

 

Add $1600

 

 

 

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