I hesitate to post anything after quickly perusing Jerry's latest presentation. Lord have mercy...I am so unworthy!!
Anyway, here's the rifle I built for my moose hunting guide, Tammy Eichhoff. She works for Michael Schneider up here in North Central BC, and apart from being a lovely young lady and a talented taxidermist, she's a great hunter as well. I'll see if I can add his web site to this post at some point.
The rifle was inspired by a piece in Steinschloss Jaegerbuschsen. It has a Rice .62 cal x 31" bbl, browned per her choice. The stock is a relatively plain piece of very dense sugar maple, stained with a very weak solution of Ferric Nitrate, and finished with Tung Oil. She is left eye dominant, so I made the rifle to order. The lock was an issue, since no one makes a nice left hand Jaeger lock. I chose a lock by L & R and did a lot of modifications. The butt plate and trigger guard I acquired here from Jerry Huddleston, but I had to make my own side plate. The nose piece was part of the set I bought from Jerry, but the rod pipes came from TOW. So here's some pics:
Oh, and the rifle weighs 7.7 pounds. I'll sight it in on Tuesday.
