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Offline smshea

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recently completed schimmel
« on: February 01, 2010, 05:04:57 AM »
Just finishing this up! What little hardware is on it is steel, straight 50cal @38" with a Lg Siler lock. The rifle actually appears much darker without the flash.
 
 
 
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Offline Dave B

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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 08:18:38 AM »
Hey,
Nice Schimmel Butt. You got to like them big for an early gun. Whats the width of the .50 cal ? What dose she weigh in at? There is some thing very attractive about these Barn guns, the clean lines and simple.  You've done a nice job on it. Thanks for sharing the pics.
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2010, 07:10:58 PM »
I am starting to develo an attachment to shimmels the more I see of them.

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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2010, 08:14:07 PM »
Scott,
It looks like a feller could shoot that gun!!  ;D    The architecture looks pre 1800 to me. What led you to use a straight barrel?  I am so biased toward swamped barrels that I am always curious when someone doesn't use one where it appears that they could.........

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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2010, 09:31:36 PM »
Quote from: DrTimBoone on February 01, 2010, 08:14:07 PM
Scott,
It looks like a feller could shoot that gun!!  ;D    The architecture looks pre 1800 to me. What led you to use a straight barrel?  I am so biased toward swamped barrels that I am always curious when someone doesn't use one where it appears that they could.........

Thanks

Customer Requested the barrel and it is an earlier pattern than most of the Schimmels you see....really fits nice!

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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2010, 02:37:03 AM »
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2010, 06:31:05 PM »
Nice, I've been considering something like that for myself lately. Of course it's going to have to have some good Rev War graffiti on it and be bashed around a bit. ;D I'm thinking of not even putting a trigger guard on mine. :o
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 09:45:47 PM »
Mike some of the old ones did not have a guard on but with todays lawyers???There were tgs added by tinkers ,white smiths etc
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2010, 01:25:05 AM »
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Mike some of the old ones did not have a guard on but with todays lawyers???
I'm hoping no one will want to buy it with out a guard so I can have a hunting rifle for a change. Haven't had a rifle for quite a few years now... :-\
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2010, 02:28:51 AM »
That's so classic! ;D

Like the shoemaker whose kids had no shoes and the life insurance salesman who died with no life insurance.

Mike, You probably can;t make  gun so ugly that nobody wants it!
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2010, 05:08:29 AM »
Mike I understand your problem,I kept selling my hunting rifle so I had allen martin make me a shimmel
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2010, 03:20:20 PM »
Very nice!
Question: Are most schimmel guns without buttplate?
Does the stock not chip or crack without the buttplate?
That rifle is way to fine to allow a chip or crack!
I have seen older guns without a trigger guard, and thought it an oversite, or mistake. And I thought I knew everything!
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2010, 02:39:46 AM »
 I have a rifle with no butt piece, toe plate or heel piece that has been used steadily for almost forty years and shows little wear on the butt and no chipping out at all. I've not used any special care to prevent damage--I handle it like any of my other guns, with a modicum of care and respect. These simple hardy rifles are a pleasure to use and for me a wonderful and important part of American history.
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Re: recently completed schimmel
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2010, 03:02:38 AM »
Das gut, brudder!  Architecture superb!  Way to go! Wayne
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