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Offline Nate McKenzie

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Lehigh Schimmel #2
« on: February 01, 2012, 09:14:36 PM »
Hi. Thought I'd like to share another Lehigh Schimmel. It has a Chambers Late Ketland lock , a Getz 42in. 50cal. swamped barrel, no butt plate, and a formed brass trigger guard. This is about as basic as she comes.










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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 09:16:44 PM »
More pics.




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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 09:33:45 PM »
Nice flowing lines!
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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2012, 01:14:48 AM »
Cool Nate!! I like what you did. Poor farmer has got to have a gun too!!
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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2012, 01:53:25 AM »
Looks great! Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2012, 03:41:28 AM »
Neat gun, a really attractive exercise in functional simplicity using a lock, stock and barrel.

Though I do have one question that's been bugging me, where does the front of the trigger guard go? Through to the barrel channel and locked under the barrel with some kind of tab, or folded under the trigger plate and captured by the tang bolt? Either way a great solution using one less pin or screw.

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2012, 04:01:25 AM »
I like everything about it....thanks for the pics

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2012, 05:46:36 AM »
Deano- your second theory is correct.

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2012, 06:32:12 AM »
Lovin that.

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2012, 07:56:50 AM »
Pretty extravagant, Nate. TWO ramrod pipes??? ;)
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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2012, 09:04:58 AM »
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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2012, 05:04:02 PM »
The way I count it there are 18 parts on this gun, not counting lock components...I wonder what else could go and still function? A single lock bolt, a single pipe.....

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2012, 09:00:41 PM »
Well, a few years ago Chuck Dixon showed me a rifle he had built without "add on" sights. He had used a cold chisel to raise a poinit at the muzzle, then used the chisel to turn up ridge across the barrel for a rear sight. A nick in the ridge for the notch and he was done. Chuck had a target he had shot with the rifle and it wasn't bad at all.

It also had one lock bolt without a washer and one thimble.

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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2012, 09:01:33 PM »
You could loose the tricker guard too. The first one of these I ever saw had no guard!

Nice piece, at first look I thought it was one I built yrs. ago.
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Re: Lehigh Schimmel #2
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2012, 07:27:54 PM »
Thanks for your comments. It was nice to meet so many of you at Lewisburg. Special thanks to the people who bought rifles from me at Lewisburg.