Christmas came early!!

[EC121]

Rifle by Mike Gahagan. .58cal. O/R barrel.. After Isaac Berlin.

 

[hawkenhunter50]

That's a dandy, you sure do come across some nice ones. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[William Hagewood]

Gorgeous!

 

[EC121]

One more.

 

[stubshaft]

She's a beauty for sure!

 

[EC121]

Not only does it look good, but it will shoot if you do your part. I had to do a sear spring job on it. Now it has a really fine trigger pull. Those big locks have a cast sear spring with a short arm. Really stiff. This one was 2.2lbs. with the cock all the way down. That is with the sear spring pressure and trigger geometry. No mainspring pressure. After I worked on it, the resting trigger pull went to about 8oz. This gave me a trigger pressure at full cock of appox. 3-4lbs. 50yds. benched. The two outliers were me not holding right.

 

[wayne estes]

Mighty fine!

 

[hanshi]

Whoa! That is a super gorgeous rifle. Congratulations.

 

[James Kibler]

Yes sir! That's nice.

 

[Nemo Vir]

Pumpkin chunkin time.

 

[bpd303]

You Alabama boys come across some of the finest rifles, I've ever seen and shooters to boot. In 30 years over here I've only come across one that was a 36 caliber and just as nice, but the seller wanted $2600 for it and wouldn't budge on the price. Just too much for this old poor boy.