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Offline Mike Brooks

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Ready, set GO!
« on: July 20, 2019, 03:04:35 PM »
Already three weeks late on this, got it all layed out last Thursday.  Tang is all inlet and barrel pinned in now, So far I figure about 1 gallon of sweat per hour with this latest bout of global warming. :P Think I'll make it by CLA? Anybody's wallet starting to feel a little lighter? ;D
 Bill Antes profile.....but that's about it for Antes influence on this one. The wood looked real knarly, but it seems to cut really well. Maybe I'll get the lock worried in today.....



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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2019, 03:05:49 PM »
BTW, Rice EDL in .60, 1 1/4" at the breech. Very cool.... 8)
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2019, 03:36:57 PM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on July 20, 2019, 03:05:49 PM
BTW, Rice EDL in .60, 1 1/4" at the breech. Very cool.... 8)

What’s EDL?  Extra Deeee-Luxe?  Extra Duty Longrifle?

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Offline sqrldog

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2019, 03:46:01 PM »
Extremely Deadly Longrifle. Just joking. It stands for Early Dutch Lancaster. I believe Allen Martin designed the profile. Usually 1 5/16" but this one made 1 1/4" act flats at the breech.
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Offline Pukka Bundook

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2019, 04:37:37 PM »
Bonny bit of wood, Mikey!

Look forward to progress reports.
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Online Bob Roller

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2019, 05:40:41 PM »
With the global warming here in the OHIO Valley the idea is to breathe
only if you have to or can remember how to.Wretched humidity and it
is a nuisance for me,my wife suffers from it due to asthma so I stay close.
The AC in my shop gave up the fight after 43 years of service. It was an
Amana I put in back in 1976 as a replacement for the one from 1964.
We hope to be at the CLA show in Lexington.I don't know if I will have any
thing to bring to sell or show.

Bob Roller
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2019, 07:06:57 PM »
Really like that profile drawing Mike.  Very pleasing design.
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Offline jerrywh

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2019, 08:54:22 PM »
What does that barrel weigh?
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2019, 12:54:26 AM »
I know where this gun is going. The dude that’s getting it has the back door key to Fort Knox. Let er rip Brooks.
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Offline sqrldog

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2019, 02:10:15 AM »
Its going to be bad enough as it is, don't encourage him Stoner.
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2019, 02:32:21 AM »
If I did my math right, starting tomorrow you have 23 days to finish the gun up before CLA. That’s 554 hours. 100 hour gun. No problemo huh??
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Offline oldtravler61

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2019, 02:52:43 AM »
  Not for Mike. He works faster than lightning..! Bet he finishes another one before the show..!  Go Big Mike..!!   Oldtravler
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2019, 03:04:55 AM »
I think that final stock will be really special.  $$$ rules the world.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2019, 03:18:00 AM »
Quote from: Stoner creek on July 21, 2019, 02:32:21 AM
If I did my math right, starting tomorrow you have 23 days to finish the gun up before CLA. That’s 554 hours. 100 hour gun. No problemo huh??
No problemo.....if I was still a whipper snapper. :P
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2019, 07:16:43 AM »
GIT-ER DONE!  ;D

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2019, 03:31:41 PM »
Mike even told me he was too busy to go fishing.  Wonder if he is sick?

I am heading East later this week, perhaps I will drop in and bug him for 15 min.

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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2019, 03:52:51 PM »
Quote from: snapper on July 21, 2019, 03:31:41 PM
Mike even told me he was too busy to go fishing.  Wonder if he is sick?

I am heading East later this week, perhaps I will drop in and bug him for 15 min.

Fleener
I'll be here, stop on by.
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Offline Mike Lyons

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2019, 02:29:42 PM »
Are the Bethlehem and Bucks County rifles tied closely together?  They sure do look similar. 
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2019, 05:21:37 PM »
Are you done yet Mike? ;)
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2019, 05:53:38 PM »
Mike,
They absolutely are!  Bucks Co and Lehigh are basically connected geographically.  Lots about the styles are similar. Who knows if they shared ideas and techniques, even apprentices, but the similarities are there.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2019, 05:56:45 PM »
Quote from: Justin Urbantas on July 25, 2019, 05:21:37 PM
Are you done yet Mike? ;)
Barrel is in and pinned, lock is in, buttplate is on, triggers are in. Today is a fun day of filing up the trigger guard. Boy is that fun. ::)
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Offline Stoner creek

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2019, 06:36:00 PM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on July 25, 2019, 05:56:45 PM
Quote from: Justin Urbantas on July 25, 2019, 05:21:37 PM
Are you done yet Mike? ;)
Barrel is in and pinned, lock is in, buttplate is on, triggers are in. Today is a fun day of filing up the trigger guard. Boy is that fun. ::)
Are you reading all of this Tim??
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #22 on: July 25, 2019, 07:59:47 PM »
Yep really excited about the unknown.  For those of you interested in this rifle,  Mike is making it for me. Stoner is just ribbing me. I call this the Mike Brooks  vision rifle. We're gonna see what happens when you give a good gunsmith a set of parts and say have at it. Mike and I are friends and he has already made two guns for me. He, therefore, has some knowledge of what my measurementsare and that I like early rifles. The rest will be pure Brooks initiative and design. I can't wait to see what happens when you take the bridle off of Mike and to quote Stoner (let'r rip). It is a little daunting but I'm sure all will be fine in the end. I'm looking forward to owning another one of Mike's creations. Stoner won't get this one.
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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2019, 12:27:43 AM »
 So if we see a stock hung between the ears of a truck haul'n down 75 or 64 we'll know that's Mike dry'n out the finish, assembly on site :D

  Tim C (The one with the "R")
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Ready, set GO!
« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2019, 07:42:01 PM »
Time for the big round off.







Foreman of the project.... ;)



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