• Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Bedford rifles any fans out there??

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

Guest
Funny looking to me ,but it grows on you the bedford has a beauty of its own. Funny when we think Bedford we think P.A.,but there were transplant bedfords. Ohio made by the Great Joseph Mills who moved to southeast Ohio in Cosh. I have been to the Mills Estate and shot A bean shoot there and a great-great grand child still hosts the shoot Near 80 and she has good corn bread and beans and pie cooked on a old iron stove burning wood in a cabin in the bears den.`And of course the shoot,boot jack,string shoot ,it invatation only and I hope I get invited this year. A pal named Fred Nay who passed with a heart attack a few years back was a master Bedford maker,hand made rifled barrels ,hand forged and filed locks,and all hardware. Lord we miss him gone to the maker. Old Fred would hunt deer with his .38 cal. Bedford and got dozens. There may be a Bedford in my life yet and yes a .38cal.
 
I have a handmade by maker unknown in .45 that might be a Bedford style. I wish someone would post a pic of a Bedford so I could be sure.
If I ever figure out my digital camera I'll post a pic of mine.
 
kit-bedford-13-32to36-flint_1.jpg


kit-bedford-13-32to36-flint_2.jpg


kit-bedford-13-32to36-flint_3.jpg
 
Hi fowler, (and Maxi and Daryl),

I'll tell you a sad, yes very sad story...

I live about an hour and a half away from Bedford, PA.
They have a marvelous historic village, called "Old Bedford Village".

Now the sad, and probably inexcusable part of the story...I've never been there...

Maybe this thread and those pictures will be the motivation I need...

Regards,

Jerry.
 
Very nice and wood fit for a bedford,most have wood you would die for. Very popular rifle in its day was a throw back in workmanship and hi-grade wood and craftsmanship long after the The golden age. The rat-tale locks and thinness is a trait of the Bedfords too. Very nice photos!!!!
 
Back
Top