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Cornell Kemper, Marvin's dad made 3200 rifles in his 47-year career. His first few years he was mostly restocking old guns.
Even so that works out to 68 rifles a year. He is said to have finished three guns a week.
If you think about it just maintaining inventory to make that many guns would be a shore.
Which leads me to wonder just how a gunsmith would be able to maintain inventory to build that many rifles in a year.
Wallace Gussler noted in a lecture, that a variety of rifles he had inspected all had the same identical rear sights. I believe the point he was trying to make, is that were traveling salesmen that catered to the gun trade.
Local timber cutters could keep him in wood. Remington was mass producing barrels by 1820.
Other barrels were available from Europe. All the other parts were available by then.
Probably one Smith and one or two apprentices could easily get 75 rifles out a year.
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