This is a .40 caliber Youth Early Transitional Tennessee Rifle. Notice the Carolina trigger guard and the early butt plate. This was an "Over the Mountain Rifle." The stock is Iowa Native Black walnut and the lock was a Chamber's Siler that was converted to a brass lock from some scrap brass laying around the shop.
Finished Rifle Photos: (Click on photos below)
Friends & Proud owner, Jacob with his Dad (Tim) of Ohio..
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Unfinished Rifle Album: (In case your interested, Click on photos below.)
In the beginning, the bare necessities.
The barrel inlet into the stock
Then it was inlet this into the stock. 
Next the trigger
was forged out.
The stock was shaped, ramrod channel dug out & drilled, made some thimbles, then inlet them.
Put in the side plate bolts.
Made a side plate pattern and cut it
out of scrap shop metal.
The side plate was inlet. 
Next step was to start carving out the cheek
piece.
Then the forearm shaped & trigger guard inlet and on to the nose cap. 
Nose cap was shaped and the lines for the carving are marked out for
the poured nose cap.
The nose cap was carved out and molten pewter was poured into the carvings,
then filed down to the wood. (For better pictures how this done, see the
Transitional Lancaster album.) 
The toe plate as made from scrap steel in the shop.
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