1775 assault weapon

If I am done at this time next year I will be happy.
I am going to take my time on this one. I hope to have all of the major work done by fall. I will have the breechplug inlet in the next couple of weeks, then the barrel lugs in and pinned. I am ordering the lock next week and that will be inlet when I get it. I had a buttplate I planned to use but when I got the stock I found it would not work so I will get another at Friendship in June. There are a couple of skills that are new to me I will need to learn and practice. I plan to scrape instead of sanding for finish. Many of the guns were done this way so the smith did not need to by sandpaper. There will be some carving around the tang and I will need to practice some before attempting the real thing.
I will have plenty of wood when I cut most of the excess off the forestock for practice and finish experimenting.
I am looking forward to the challenges.

I forgot to mention it is a 16 gauge.

I will use it for deer and maybe turkey depending on how it patterns. Hunting is a great way to do the patina many want in a new made gun. I will use it mostly to defend the bridges on our road should the need arise.
Fusil, fuze, fowlers, muskets all discribe these early smoothbores. There were minor differences in them. If I am not mistaken fusils were scaled down muskets. Lighter in stock and smaller bore than the .75 cal Brown Bess. They were fitted for a bayonet. Often made by some of the better makers for officers use. This gun will be more like the modern shotgun. Think like if you could only have one gun and you had the opertunity to hunt small game, bears, deer. moose and had to supply your own gun for your national Guard duty. I will be able to shoot ball, shot and buckshot through it.