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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: Burg on December 15, 2018, 03:56:28 AM

Title: Double Grease Hole Rifles
Post by: Burg on December 15, 2018, 03:56:28 AM

Does anyone have a picture or link to a picture of Elisha Bull's double grease hole rifle?

Title: Re: Double Grease Hole Rifles
Post by: Cades Cove Fiddler on December 15, 2018, 07:29:28 AM

 ;) ;)... Burg,.... P. 92 in Volume 2 of Jerry Noble's books on Southern Rifles has some  pretty good B&W photos,... should be a color photo in some book, also,... Regards,... CCF,...

Title: Re: Double Grease Hole Rifles
Post by: Cades Cove Fiddler on December 15, 2018, 07:33:30 AM

 :) :).... the new book by Randal Pierce has a great color photo of a double taller-hole rifle by William Douglas on pages 11-12,....

Title: Re: Double Grease Hole Rifles
Post by: BOB HILL on December 15, 2018, 04:11:48 PM

Also on the great KRF disc Rifles of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Bob

Title: Re: Double Grease Hole Rifles
Post by: galudwig on December 17, 2018, 03:26:55 AM

Ian Pratt has a set of detailed pictures of Elisha Bull's double grease hole rifle. He shared them (along with several other Bull rifles) with my class at Canter's Cave back in 2017 as our class project was a Bull inspired rifle (we even forged our own furniture). We were asked to not distribute the pictures ourselves though. However, if you sign a confidentiality agreement and submit three letters of reference, Ian might share them with you!  ;)

There are also several pictures of this rifle in Robin Hale's treatise on "Tennessee Rifles."

http://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/B023_hALE.pdf