Winter is my favorite time to build rifles. With a nice big wood stove and very few fence - railing orders, it's easy for me to disapear into my blacksmith shop and whittle away on small quiet projects. Summer is noisy hot and full of ironwork deadlines and it's swety and damp. So here is my last rifle for this year, it's also the last piece of apple from a tree I cut down several years ago.
I ordered a .32 cal barrel from Rice barrels and explained that I would be loading the barrel with 10 grains and shooting at my 65 foot "range" in the back of my shop, so Jason suggested a fast twist, he cut the barrel to 39" long.
The lock is from TRS and is described as a French Rifle lock. It went together pretty easily and sparks like a mid western thunderstorm. I picked out the guard and butt plate last summer at Dixon's and they were Greeves castings. I don't know what school I would assign the rifle to, I never liked school. I have studied long rifles and wrought iron design for a long time and have come to rudley understand some of the underlying structure of barouqe and roccoco. The patch box and the cheek carving grew out of my sketching and doodling, It's too bad that I can't see that well any more, those little details get fuzzy...
All in all I like the gun a lot It's getting to be pretty acurate and makes very little niose. Rercoil? What the heck is recoil?
Almost forgot to show you the muzzle cap, it's sterling with a brass end.Clint W
