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Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« on: April 21, 2010, 05:12:00 PM »
Normally I wouldn't direct anyone to look at an auction site, but this gun strikes me as very peculiar.  There is a relic condition gun.  The percussion lock is on the right side, but the butt stock appears to have a cheek piece on both the left and right sides.
I have never even heard of such a thing.   

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=164611113 
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 05:28:48 PM »
Common in the new england area.
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Re: Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2010, 06:28:51 PM »
Bottom is original gun.  Top is my interpretation from parts I had around the shop.
It was a quicky build just for kicks.




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Re: Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2010, 10:31:46 PM »
Some WV rifles occasionally had double cheekpieces as well. J.W. Stackhouse and Joe Young made several guns with a beaver tail cheekpiece on both sides. Unusual, but not uncommon.
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Re: Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2010, 02:06:22 AM »
     Until it was stolen, I had one by Philo Soper of Ontario.  I think I have seen one other somewhere but can't remember where

cheers Doug
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Offline Curt J

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Re: Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2010, 05:46:14 AM »
I have two by Illinois makers. One is by MILLS & THOMPSON at Plum River, Jo Daviess County; the other by N B DEVOL, who worked in Marshall, Clark County. I have seen them by other Illinois makers as well.
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Offline Jerry V Lape

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Re: Ambi dexterous half stock rifle
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 04:07:05 AM »
 Go to www.bobjonesguns.com and see the double barrel percussion muzzleloader with two sets of barrels (one set shotgun the other rifle) with full cheekpieces on each side.  It is a fantastic German gun I believe made by Sauer.  Wish I had the money! 
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