Jim held his New Year's Day shoot, but it was too cold for most. Bob came from Golden, Colorado to shoot and so I and Kyme went out, along with two interested observers. Here I am with my .54 Kit Carson copy on the cross-canyon shoot ("more than 100 yards", said Jim). I think we all three hit the only two targets we could see in the snow.
Here Kyme is showing a new-comer the fine points of his English officer's personal rifle, a 16 gauge or .66 caliber smoothbore.
The winner's circle. Bob had three misses with a .54 GRRW barreled left-handed walnut stock Hawken I made from a blank about 20 years ago. I think I was second, we had no score keeper and didn't write our scores down.
I had a lot of trouble making this lock inlet when I didn't know how.
That West Virginia walnut blank was hard wood.
