Was up at arrow rock mo a couple of weeks ago and got a chance to go throug john sites jr house. Gunsmith from the 1830s through until 1870s, His Father ran a gun shop at boonesville in the 1820-50 supplying the Santafe trail and westren trade. Although they had a few 1/2 stock sporting rifes, looking simular to ohio-michegan style guns; One looked to be a vincent but I was on a tour and could not eximen it closly, in the shop they did not have an actual sites rifle I believe. Around town they had lots of brass mounted southren style rifles running from about 40- middle 50s cal(so much for the iron monted southren rifles we love, brass seamed more popular in this area...stocks were southren influnce however).It was stated at the gunshop that sites rifles have been found it all the westren states, but just a quick internet search gave me just one site on Sites.
Any one ever see one, I was thinking about doing a build based on one of the guntypes seen there. It would be a great tie-in to mo guns.
Any one ever see one, I was thinking about doing a build based on one of the guntypes seen there. It would be a great tie-in to mo guns.