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Offline Mike Brooks

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English Park Rifle
« on: October 30, 2016, 07:07:18 PM »
Swamped 31" Rice barrel 62.cal rifled, Chambers lock. Goehring trigger guard and buttplate, sterling thumbpiece,Iowa grown wally-nut. I decided to show a little german influence in this gun with the square toe and the cheek piece. Gun weighs 7 3/4lbs. Should make a fine deer smasher!




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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2016, 07:09:04 PM »
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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2016, 07:22:00 PM »
Nice Mike!!

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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2016, 08:29:16 PM »
Make a fine tree stand rifle. Really nice rifle Mike.
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Offline wattlebuster

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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2016, 09:19:10 PM »
Another fine one Mike ;D A fine treestand gun as already said an would be a joy to carry in these thick thickets in Hotabama
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Offline Joe S.

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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2016, 09:34:04 PM »
nicely done Mike,really liking your work
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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2016, 11:43:39 PM »
Making canoe guns now are we...

That remark was rattlesnake mean and I know it, big grin. The rifle is beautifully done Mike, great architecture topped with masterful inlay and all round solid craftsmanship.

Be easy to tote around in the North Georgia mountains and laurel thickets.

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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2016, 02:01:06 AM »
Canoe gun for sure!  That's to short guns in a row now. I'm liking these stumpy guns, not so much forestock to shape. I was torn between an english  bag shaped cheek piece or the germanic one that I ended up with. being an earlier (1770ish) I went with what's on it.
I have a jeager coming up this winter (I hope) with a 25" barrel in .58, that should be fun. ;D
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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2016, 02:22:11 AM »
Smashing good deer smasher indeed. I think it has Bear written all over it. Great looking rifle.
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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2016, 03:41:15 AM »
Guess it's all in the size of the canoe!!!!.....lol
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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2016, 04:42:45 AM »
That,...is a really cool piece!  I love the melding of the English & Germanic aspects.  Great looking rifle!  Thanks for posting the photos.


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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2016, 04:27:20 PM »
I love that gun!
Now I know what to do what to do with the walnut blank I thought was
too short :)
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Offline David Rase

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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2016, 09:49:08 PM »
That turned out really  nice.  Looks like that gun has a lot of cast off and a very wide buttplate.  I bet it was a pain getting it all to fit correctly on the blank.  ;)
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Re: English Park Rifle
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2016, 12:02:31 AM »
Quote from: David Rase on October 31, 2016, 09:49:08 PM
That turned out really  nice.  Looks like that gun has a lot of cast off and a very wide buttplate.  I bet it was a pain getting it all to fit correctly on the blank.  ;)
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You have no idea.... or maybe you do. ;)
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