Mike Brooks Squirrel Rifle with Myron Carlson Hardware

[G-Man]

Check out the beautiful rifle by Mike Brooks on the Contemporary Makers Blog Spot today.  Just a great example of how a well built, elegant rifle with wonderful architecuture, built around some nice hardware, can carry a gun without the need for much decoration. One of my favorite pieces by Mr. Brooks that I have ever seen.

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Guy

[bgf]

That is a pretty little thing.  I have yet to see Mike Brooks build anything I don't like, even if he often builds stuff that I normally wouldn't like, if that makes any sense.  In this case, send it to me, and I'll pretend to hunt squirrels with it .

[Bill of the 45th]

YUMMY

Bill

[wattlebuster]

Very nice Id love to have it

[B Shipman]

Greatt gun, Like just about everything he does.

[A.Merrill]

    So what else would expect   A great gun from a master gunsmith. Thanks for the pic's Mr. Brooks    AL

[Don Getz]

Another one off the Brooksy bench.    A 25 calibre, 48" long.........bet you could fly fish with that ramrod........Don

[Mike Brooks]

I built that gun for one of the local guys. It has a Rayle barrel on it, very light. The ram rod hole went scewy dewey, one of the only holes Fred miller did for me that went wild. The inlay for the rear lockscrew covers where the ram rod hole came out! The owner uses a brass rod to load with, and says the gun shoots increadibly well even out to the 100 yard line.

[Levy]

I have a rifle very similar to the one Mike made and probably with the same barrel pattern by Ed Rayl.  Mine was made by Billy Harkins and is a lot of fun to hunt squirrels with.  Fred Miller did the ramrod hole and barrel inletting for me too and the rod hole did run out away from the gunlock, but didn't exit.  The slight bend in the ramrod helps to hold it in the stock.  Fred just grimaced when I handed him the barrel and the stock.

James Levy

[Sequatchie Rifle]

I've handled the .25 Billy built- I'd love to have that rifle.  It's light and very long!

These .25 with long barrels are something else.  Remember the "fly rod" a few weeks ago on the blog?

[KLMoors]

Wow, what a cool rifle. A true pea shooter!

[B Shipman]

Fred always erred to to lockplate side to avoid the common thing of inletting the lock mainspring into the rod channel. As with all things, good intentions can get away from you on occasion especially with a weird piece of wood. I can't even drill a pin hole and have it come out perfectly on the other side without drilling from both sides and reaming the hole.