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Offline Dave

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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #75 on: March 29, 2022, 01:23:44 PM »
That's one fine rifle, well done!
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Offline Levy

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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #76 on: April 05, 2022, 05:34:15 AM »
Well, the comet AND the Mississippi flowing backwards in the same year must have put a lot of folks on edge.  James Levy
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Offline B Shipman

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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #77 on: April 09, 2022, 06:58:52 AM »
Like it. Clearly a Reeves Henry Abright buttplate. Right?
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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #78 on: April 09, 2022, 03:41:40 PM »
Nice job.
About the “fight”.
I learned many years ago when I was the custom shop for a brass suppository maker that some guns just like being in the shop. They don’t want to leave, they have found a home OR as I suspected at Shiloh there was a gremlin with a trapdoor living under the floor that would steal dropped screws (only odd hard to replace ones like some 36 pitch from some project of mine) and would somehow create problems on “done” guns so that when you looked at it one last time before it went to shipping and it would be “how the &$%@# did that happen”. Trust me, I feel your pain.  Just went through it last week.
But again, nice work. Not a fan of dies and such but I like the color…
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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #79 on: April 09, 2022, 04:20:33 PM »
Relly like the rifle now that Jim Filipsky made the photos viewable. Like the carving behind the cheek piece. Before Jim's fix, couldn't really tell what was there.
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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #80 on: June 01, 2022, 04:35:31 AM »
It looks like you’re getting the hang of this stuff 😁

That’s one the coolest rifles ever. Dang.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #81 on: June 01, 2022, 03:05:42 PM »
Quote from: Bob Gerard on June 01, 2022, 04:35:31 AM
It looks like you’re getting the hang of this stuff 😁

That’s one the coolest rifles ever. Dang.
Happens to be the last one I built too. Is this what a vacation feels like? I haven't had a vacation since the 90s.   :P
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Re: Sheetz is finally done
« Reply #82 on: June 03, 2022, 06:56:03 AM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on January 19, 2022, 01:26:31 AM
I made another John Sheetz rifle a few years ago that is very similar. This one has the Rice Southern Classic barrel in .50. Very light gun, probably 6.5lbs.



















Nifty. I’d love to have that sign (you might actually get a good price for it if you auctioned it off) ….once you actually retire retire.
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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #83 on: June 03, 2022, 02:29:47 PM »
Kinda like having the hood ornament off Elvis’s limo…
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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #84 on: June 03, 2022, 02:47:26 PM »
Don’t write the old boy off yet. I know of at least a half dozen projects that he has plans for.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #85 on: June 03, 2022, 04:14:55 PM »
Quote from: Stoner creek on June 03, 2022, 02:47:26 PM
Don’t write the old boy off yet. I know of at least a half dozen projects that he has plans for.
Since I can't do anything but sit in a chair right now I'm getting highly inspired. I've been going all gooey over Fordney for a couple days now.
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Re: Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)
« Reply #86 on: June 03, 2022, 04:23:07 PM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on June 03, 2022, 04:14:55 PM
Quote from: Stoner creek on June 03, 2022, 02:47:26 PM
Don’t write the old boy off yet. I know of at least a half dozen projects that he has plans for.
Since I can't do anything but sit in a chair right now I'm getting highly inspired. I've been going all gooey over Fordney for a couple days now.

 Open up your Virginia books. There’s a stock with a brass barrel inlet out there in your shop somewhere. Order yourself some inspiration from that!!
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