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house rifle
« on: May 04, 2009, 01:38:51 AM »
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: house rifle
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2009, 02:58:31 PM »
Looks like a House "influenced" rifle to me, The work is a little rough to be a signed House.
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Re: house rifle
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2009, 06:30:20 PM »
I thought the same thing Mike
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Re: house rifle
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2009, 07:18:21 PM »
If I recall correctly this gun was listed for sale on the CLA site last year as a "Dan Casey - Hershel House" build - something to do with a project associated with a Cantor's Cave (Jackson Ohio) class that Hershel helped with. 

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Re: house rifle
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2009, 05:52:21 AM »
 Does not look like anything the house brothers would build, to rough and to steep of a price.
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Re: house rifle
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2009, 05:19:21 PM »
If you read the ad carefully it refers to the barrel being hand forged by Hershel.  It does not say any of the other parts were made by him or that the gun was stocked by him.   Again, I believe the barrel was a project or demonstration done in association with a show a couple of years ago and the gun was actually stocked up by Dan Casey in the Woodbury style.

If it were an all Hershel-built gun with a hand forged barrel the asking price would be a steal.

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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: house rifle
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2009, 06:16:08 PM »
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If you read the ad carefully it refers to the barrel being hand forged by Hershel
I'm pretty suspicious of that too.....
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Re: house rifle
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2009, 06:39:27 PM »
I don't know the details - but from the past description of it on the CLA site it sounded like  the barrel was probably a class project or demonstration at Cantor's Cave up near Jackson Ohio.  I've not gone to that show but I think Ian Pratt has - he might know. At a minimum it looks like someone other than Hershel did most of the work on the gun.

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