Something New From Jack Duprey

[DougS]

My son and I had a great visit with Jack yesterday.

Jack showed us his latest "barn" gun.

Leave it up to Jack to always come up with something new and creative.

Have never seen a trigger guard made from "rawhide" before, but have now.

Jack said he still needed to apply a sealer to the guard.

Thank you for looking,

Regards,

Doug

[wattlebuster]

I like it. Lots

[Marcruger]

I appreciate the stapled buttstock crack repair as well.  Very cool and nifty. 

[tooguns]

Rawhide trigger guard? huh what'll he think of next! I like it!!

[BOB HILL]

Mr. Jack is the  “Master of Making Do”.
Bob

[oldtravler61]

  40 years ago when I first met Jack. That's what drew my attention to his gun making. He always said . Back in the day. They used about everything
 they had. Threw nothing away an now days. Gun builders way over build everything..
  You should see the gun he made using a snapping turtle shell..As Mike Brooks says...Cool beans man...

[Mike Brooks]

Now there's a gun that wouldn't handle a rainstorm well. Mushy trigger guard syndrome....

[Austin]

Mikes right, definitely an Arizona gun! 😂😂

[oldtravler61]

   Disagree...not if you seal the leather right...but it's not the trigger guard I would use. But I would bet he's already sold it. Since last fall  he's built about five or six guns that I know of. Not bad for an 86 year old..!

[Hawken62_flint]

That is called "imagination" and using what is at hand. I like this rifle a lot, including the staples!!

[Leatherbark]

If you get hungry you can boil it and eat it! That is after you eat your moccasins.

Bob

[bpd303]

Over the years I have seen fittings made out of some really unusual or weird/strange stuff. Mostly on Khyber Pass tourist trade guns. Material like carved Jade, human rib bone, buffalo horn, parts from crashed WWII B17 bombers, braided Hemp etc. This is the first I've seen from rawhide though don't see why it wouldn't work though.

 Back in 1985, I forged 2 bespoke trigger guards for a gentleman. One out of an old wrought iron RR spike and another from a draft horse shoe. They came out pretty nice. He wanted them to be recognizable for what they were made from.

Randy aka bpd303

[Marcruger]

Mighty, mighty cool.  The gun is too.