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Originally Posted by rickystl
Hi Stu.
That is a very nice Mukahla. And a really long barrel on this one. WOW!!
Curious there is no provision for a ramrod. Especially with this barrel length.
This style of fish tail stock has the typical thin wrist area and thumb grove. but the slight drop in the butt stock versus straight I believe places the gun in a nearby area of Morocco, but the name escapes me at the moment. But I'll look through my reference material and locate it. I really like the decorated leather wrist wrap around the butt stock. Really adds the "tribal" look to the gun. The extra use of berrel bands/wrap I believe was not only to hold the barrel to the stock, but to act as reinforcement for the extra thin forearm of the stock. Which makes sense. The snaphaunce lock on this one is done in the Dutch pattern. Which I find the most common on this style from the Region. Whereas the majority of other styles seemed to favor the English pattern lock.
A very nice Kabyle gun. Congratulations.
Rick
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Thanks Rick for your comments. If this gun had not already been in NZ there is no way that I could have had it shipped here due to the length. Even shipping WITHIN the country would have been a bit of a problem, hence my long road journey to pick it up.
Anyway I digress.......as far as I can establish this style of Mukahla originates from the Taroudant Region, Sous Valley (ref Elgood)
Stu