white muzzleloading

[Sean Gadhar]

For about a year & a half I have been stopping in to the whitemuzzleloading web page and looking at Doc Whites Traditional builds as they progress.

Anyone know what happened to there web page??

"Not Found

The requested URL /myweb2/images/whiterifles/default.htm was not found on this server."

 

[Claude Mathis]

It appears that their Strata Network server has an SSL problem. Might just be temporary.

 

[galamb]

Hopefully that is all that it is (or something like it).

There is a lifetime of great info on that site, would be a shame to lose the ramblings of one of the masters of our sport.

 

[vulture]

I have the privialage of living close to Doc White and for years he was our family doc, even delivered on of my children. I have been able to sit and visit with him at many shoots in the past, we used to have a club out here. He is a great guy, bit honery acting, takes a little getting used to, but I have always liked the man and he has helped me a number of time on builds I was doing, you just have to learn his ways. Being close to the original "Green River Rifle Works," I also had the previlage of knowing some of the fine men who worked there years ago, and would drop in from time to time just to watch them working. I have a real nice .54 cal. rifle I built around one of their barrels. It is a refect barrel, so didn't cost me much at all, the flats were milled wrong, one set is just under the 15/16ths of the rest. I breached the barrel so that set are oriented top and bottom and without a very close examination you can't see it, and it is one fine shooting rifle.

 

[Snakebite]

I had a brother-in-law (now ex) who had a GRRW rifle (until some slimeball stole it out of his truck). It was a solid gun. I was really sorry to see them go away.

 

[galamb]

Wooo Hoooo - site is back up.

Going to have to copy over some notes - never know when it will go away for good.

 

[Herb]

Hey, Vulture, I have one of those barrels, too. It is a .50 36" by 15/16" with unevenly milled flats, which I filed some to even them out. A guy I know in Roosevelt was in the shop with Doc White and picked it up off the floor and Doc gave it to him. After all these years he gave it to me. It has a 3/4 x 16" breech plug thread, so I'll have to file down a 1" Hawken plug and tang to fit it. Will build it into a Hawken one of these days.

 

[Mickc01]

Fun site to peruse. Thanks for the link, Sean.... :hatsoff: