Ian Pratt

[Flinter]

I noticed that Maryellen posted some photos on the contemporary Makers site of an iron mounted rifle that Ian built. I am getting where I like the iron rifles more and more.
Ian, do you mind if I ask what caliber the flintlock is.
Excellent!

[James]

I must add that I think that is a really sharp looking rifle.

[Acer Saccharum]

Pratt is one of my favorite builders. I like a buxom gun. This one rocks.  He also makes a mean woodchuck chili.

This gun is just a screamer. I love it. http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2012/03/ian-pratt-rifle.html

[Ben I. Voss]

Recipe for woodchuck chili?

[Ian Pratt]

1. Load rifle

2. Kill woodchuck with rifle

3. Throw woodchuck into pot of prepared chili. Call Tom Curran and invite him over for dinner while stirring over low heat


  Thanks for the kind words guys, any of you going to Dixon's this Summer that would like to check it out, I will probably be able to borrow this one to display. 

  Mike it's a .54 cal rifle. I had a run on smaller caliber guns for a while there and now have a few bigger bore rifles and smoothbore guns in line, having great fun slinging some bigger lead around for a change. 

[Ben I. Voss]

Thanks for sharing the secret family recipe, very generous! Cool rifle, too!

[skillman]

We're hoping for pictures and lots of descriptive stories when you're out here this summer. Don't really expect the gun to make such a long trip. Just you!!

Steve

[Acer Saccharum]

Mary Ellen Pratt is making me a hat from the woodchucks, complete with tail and four little feet. It will go with my 'Chuck Killer' rifle outfit.
Here I was at 16 with my first gun. As you see, I need a hat to complete the look. And, yes, that is a pound of powder in the keg.

[Vomitus]

  Can't believe you guys eat so many rodents! Squirrels,marmots,muskrats and possum. Don't you suthiners have deer,elk,beef,pork? Try partridges....sheesh,woodchucks?!
  Acer, you're right about Ians gun,she's a winner.

[Bob Roller]

Rodents along with cats are the other white meat. I thought everybody knew that,

Bob Roller

[Tom Currie]

Ian, Maybe fixin Woodchuck ( or any other tasty rodent ) chili could be a new seminar at Dixon's.  Make it a noon or 1 PM start, might be an alternative to the burger truck. You could throw in a little southern mountain rifle talk just to keep us focused .

[T*O*F]

Here I was at 16 with my first gun.

Tom,
Nice shirt, but you sure ain't no Paul Teutil.    Your guns lack the proper architecture.

[Meteorman]

Didn't see anything in that recipe that mentioned takin the hair off before throwin the varmint in the pot... that makes me nervous.... 

For my money, Ian's work is second to none.

/mike millard

[Osprey]

Rodents along with cats are the other white meat. I thought everybody knew that,

Bob Roller

Don't know about chucks, they'd all drown around here, but muskrat sure ain't nobody's white meat!

[Flinter]

1. Load rifle

2. Kill woodchuck with rifle

3. Throw woodchuck into pot of prepared chili. Call Tom Curran and invite him over for dinner while stirring over low heat


  Thanks for the kind words guys, any of you going to Dixon's this Summer that would like to check it out, I will probably be able to borrow this one to display. 

  Mike it's a .54 cal rifle. I had a run on smaller caliber guns for a while there and now have a few bigger bore rifles and smoothbore guns in line, having great fun slinging some bigger lead around for a change. 

Now that I know it is a 54 caliber, the rifle went from a 10 to a 12. (off the chart)

I am not going to get into the conversation of what I have cooked and ate.
Just remember... I am from south Arkansas.

[George Sutton]

The hair floats to the top

Centershot

[KLMoors]

#@!! $#@* what a beautiful rifle, and you guys are cracking me up!
Cat? Hmmm, mine has been getting on my nerves lately, hmmm..........

[JB2]

I thought the other white meat was armadillo.  Its a delicacy in some places, often called 'possum on the half-shell'.  Sweet rifle too.