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My building comes and spurts due to some physical limitations. Likely this will be my last rifle or my best one. I want to go ahead and plan it and get the components.
It is an unusual rifle. My mentor told me ..."You like those off the wall unusual or ugly guns."
so here is the original....
A73gJEw by Travis Brown, on Flickr
lock_pic_feather_gun by Travis Brown, on Flickr
Untitled by Travis Brown, on Flickr
Untitled by Travis Brown, on Flickr
This is just a rough out, mainly to get an idea of the scale of this rifle. It's going to big one.
I have all the hard parts or hard to find parts.
48" Rayl Barrel in.54..copied from the original gun
Reeves #10 Guard and a Brooks casting of the buttplate
A Siler is close to the original lock.
Originally I had planned to build this as a right handed gun. Three factors for that, 1. Of course the Original was right handed. 2. I think Left handed guns are...odd. They just look odd to me. Funny thing though, they look odd in photos but in person it's not really noticeable.
3, this stock pattern is reproduced By David Keck...Fred Miller Feather Pattern in right hand.
I shoot left handed so I'm going to build this one left handed which means a blank build.
I will have to call on several resources. I know some folks who have built this rifle so I'm going to call on them. This is a pretty closeknit community and most of us if we stay in it long enough will meet or at least have some familiarity with....most everybody.
I may try to get a pattern or a tracing from a right handed gun.
I'm going to do a try stock first just to shoulder it to make sure about the shape.
I thought ya'll might like to see how one starts.
It is an unusual rifle. My mentor told me ..."You like those off the wall unusual or ugly guns."
so here is the original....
A73gJEw by Travis Brown, on Flickr
lock_pic_feather_gun by Travis Brown, on Flickr
Untitled by Travis Brown, on Flickr
Untitled by Travis Brown, on Flickr
This is just a rough out, mainly to get an idea of the scale of this rifle. It's going to big one.
I have all the hard parts or hard to find parts.
48" Rayl Barrel in.54..copied from the original gun
Reeves #10 Guard and a Brooks casting of the buttplate
A Siler is close to the original lock.
Originally I had planned to build this as a right handed gun. Three factors for that, 1. Of course the Original was right handed. 2. I think Left handed guns are...odd. They just look odd to me. Funny thing though, they look odd in photos but in person it's not really noticeable.
3, this stock pattern is reproduced By David Keck...Fred Miller Feather Pattern in right hand.
I shoot left handed so I'm going to build this one left handed which means a blank build.
I will have to call on several resources. I know some folks who have built this rifle so I'm going to call on them. This is a pretty closeknit community and most of us if we stay in it long enough will meet or at least have some familiarity with....most everybody.
I may try to get a pattern or a tracing from a right handed gun.
I'm going to do a try stock first just to shoulder it to make sure about the shape.
I thought ya'll might like to see how one starts.