Darkhorse
Handloader
- Mar 14, 2014
- 800
- 150
I built this rifle 12 years ago mainly to hunt Turkeys with as ML rifles are legal in Georgia. But it has also seen a bit of squirrel hunting also. Lately not so much as the knee and hip problems have really slowed me down.
Rice .40 caliber 38" barrel, LH large Siler lock, Davis double set triggers.
It is meant to portray what the average rifleman might have had hanging over the mantle so it is light on decoration, excepting I did include a poured pewter nose cap.
Iron mounted browned very dark and the maple stock is also stained dark with the shine knocked off to satin. So hopefully it will escape the attention of a gobblers eyes.
I was hoping to be in the turkey woods but it I'm just sitting here at the keyboard recuperating from hip replacement and they tell me it will be some time before restrictions will be lifted.
So talking and thinking is the best I can do right now.
An interesting note is I was watching the American Rifleman the other day and they had a segment on Revoloutionary war rifles. They showed one almost identical to this one with nearly the identical incised lines. The line was the squirrel rifle over the mantel the American farmer went to war with. Or something like that.
Rice .40 caliber 38" barrel, LH large Siler lock, Davis double set triggers.
It is meant to portray what the average rifleman might have had hanging over the mantle so it is light on decoration, excepting I did include a poured pewter nose cap.
Iron mounted browned very dark and the maple stock is also stained dark with the shine knocked off to satin. So hopefully it will escape the attention of a gobblers eyes.
I was hoping to be in the turkey woods but it I'm just sitting here at the keyboard recuperating from hip replacement and they tell me it will be some time before restrictions will be lifted.
So talking and thinking is the best I can do right now.
An interesting note is I was watching the American Rifleman the other day and they had a segment on Revoloutionary war rifles. They showed one almost identical to this one with nearly the identical incised lines. The line was the squirrel rifle over the mantel the American farmer went to war with. Or something like that.