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Offline 5judge

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Gunmaker "I Lore"
« on: February 03, 2025, 01:12:45 AM »
At this weekend's show in Dalton, Georgia, I acquired what I'd call a fusil with a likely Rifle Shoppe doglock. 38-inch .62 caliber smoothbore barrel. A friend, the seller, told me information under the barrel indicates it was fabricated for the 1992 movie "Last of the Mohicans", but appears not to have made the cut. With a serpent sideplate and broad arrow stampings, caliber and proportions, I presume it was intended represent an early trade fusil and to arm one of the Indian cast members. The lockplate is engraved with Queen Anne's cypher, a date "06" (1706) and the name of the putative modern craftsman who made it, "I LORE". The "I" could represent a "J", of course. Can anyone identify Mr. Lore? Thanks. 


Offline Eric Kettenburg

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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2025, 01:38:29 AM »
I think that might be Jeff Lore.  I met him 25+ years ago at the Ticonderoga events and I've talked to him a few times since.  He's up in New England although I have to admit I don't remember exactly where.  I know I talked to him within the last 10 years via email, but can't pinpoint exactly when.  Very nice guy and knowledgeable about the early stuff.
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2025, 02:14:38 AM »
Could you post a photo of the whole gun? Sounds like an interesting piece.

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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2025, 02:15:04 AM »
How about some more pics - that one is just a tease!
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2025, 03:27:30 AM »
I like it ;D
Nothing beats the feel of a handmade southern iron mounted flintlock on a cold frosty morning

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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2025, 03:42:12 AM »
My thanks, friend Kettenburg. I find no entries for Jeff Lore on the 'net, so your information appears to be all I'll ever get.

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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2025, 03:57:00 AM »
I bought a LH Bob Harn rifle from him a couple of years ago. He was selling it for a friend.
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2025, 05:19:51 AM »
My gut says he's in Maine, or was - might be able to find him with the all knowing google.

I think he sold a gun through Track maybe within the last 10 years so they might be able to give you some info also.
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2025, 05:25:14 AM »
This post says it's from 2020 so maybe you can track him down through facebook.  I don't know how.

https://www.facebook.com/NMLRA/posts/flintlockfriday-from-jeffrey-lorei-wanted-to-showcase-this-bob-harn-rifle-i-rece/3715376041842408/

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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2025, 07:58:25 AM »
I found his address as of 2021.    Jeff Lore' , 19 Watkins St. , Gardner, MA 63017
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2025, 04:09:33 PM »
My thanks.

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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2025, 04:28:33 PM »
This post says it's from 2020 so maybe you can track him down through facebook.  I don't know how.

https://www.facebook.com/NMLRA/posts/flintlockfriday-from-jeffrey-lorei-wanted-to-showcase-this-bob-harn-rifle-i-rece/3715376041842408/

The rifle in the link is my rifle.  The rifle was built in 1982. A real work of art.





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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2025, 12:46:42 AM »
Yes it is!  Bob Harn, right?  And it's built for a shooter who uses the 'right' side of his brain hahahahahahahahahahaha...
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2025, 03:46:59 AM »
According to Mark Silver’s book it was engraved by Lew Sanchez. Harn didn’t do his own engraving until the early 90s.
The patchbox is aged not corroded.  Builder’s option I guess   😀
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Re: Gunmaker "I Lore"
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2025, 02:20:29 PM »
Lewis Sanchez! Boy does that ring a bell! If he's the fellow from Fayetteville, N.C., I haunted his gunshop when I took my first job in Fayetteville out of GI Bill-financed law school in 1972.