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Offline Roger Fisher

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Old Rattler!
« on: January 31, 2011, 03:13:20 AM »
A small local shoot today included a bench match in which one shooter was firing a Bill Large barreled and built heavy percussion with a false muzzle stamped W M Large 1960 with Old Rattler stamped below his name. 

This name of Old Rattler sounds so familiar to me in reading of the old boy.  Could this rifle have been his own chunk gun (or maybe one of them) ???

Anybody have a clue.?

P.S it didn't shoot too well with the open sight rear and pin front.
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Offline smylee grouch

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Re: Old Rattler!
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2011, 04:11:21 AM »
Roger : Its been many years now but I was talking to Bill on the phone on a Sat. Morning and when he was about to say goodby he said that he was going out to shoot a snake. I never questioned him on what that was about but your question primed my memory. Hope you findout if that is the case, would be interested to know.     Gary
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Old Rattler!
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2011, 06:24:36 PM »
Steam rail road engines used to be refered to as "Rattlers".
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Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

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Re: Old Rattler!
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 08:09:31 PM »
A real classic and one of my favorites.





           Joe.
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Re: Old Rattler!
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2011, 09:39:37 PM »
I just got off the phone with Ron Long he said that as long as he knew Bill Large he never head of such a gun. 
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