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Offline Cades Cove Fiddler

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Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« on: May 06, 2017, 04:33:35 AM »
 :o :o... OK BOYS.... LET"S POST PIX OF OUR ORIGINAL TENNESSEE RIFLES HERE FOR ALL TO ENJOY......INCLUDE MAKER (if known) AND A FEW SPECS.... I have heard a rumor of a color book on this subject, but can't wait....We need to enjoy these fine rifles now.....CHEERS,,,,, FIDDLER....... 

Long Hair Sam Burchfield with B. BEAN rifle
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Offline Cades Cove Fiddler

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2017, 05:12:03 AM »
... Rifle I found recently in Blount Co. TN.... I/2 stock tiger maple, all iron trim....46 " bbl about .40 cal. ...Holston style cheek, ...unsigned...pleasing architecture....


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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2017, 02:47:57 PM »
Just TN? Or other Appalachia guns as well.?
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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'?

Offline WadePatton

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2017, 03:34:08 PM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on May 06, 2017, 02:47:57 PM
Just TN? Or other Appalachia guns as well.?

I don't have any, just picture books and the ones stored on here, and the pics I've nipped from auctions/etc for reference (not mine to re-publish).

You gots any Mike?
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2017, 04:59:31 PM »
 ;D ;D.... Mike... Let's look at any fine original Southern Mountain Rifles .... !!!
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2017, 06:54:31 PM »
Interesting relic....
 Deep river NC. Has a "bit" of a bark inclusion on the cheek side..... :o




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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
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Offline Joe S.

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2017, 07:24:11 PM »
has a "bit" of barrel,lock,trigger exclusion as well,darn shame!nice relic anyways.
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Offline Dennis Glazener

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2017, 07:40:49 PM »
Here are some photos that Mark Elliott took of my NC flint rifle and bag set. Some say Rowan county some say around Guildford county and some say Piedmont area of NC so take your pick.

Photos by Mark Elliott:















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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2017, 09:29:42 PM »
  Now that's my kind of gun!!! Mark thanks for showing. Let's keep this going. Oldtravler
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Offline jdm

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2017, 09:38:49 PM »
Here's one with a Robert Hughes attribution.  I know it's been on here before but it's the only  one I have.
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2017, 11:19:14 PM »
Really like your rifle Dennis.  That barrel looks a mile long.  How long is it?  Caliber?
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2017, 12:39:04 AM »
I posted these photos a while back, but I believe they will work for this thread. This belonged to my wife's cousin Dr. R.E.L. Bearden. It was pointed out to me here, and I have to agree after studying Jerry Noble's books, that it has characteristics of Alfred Bearden's work.
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2017, 12:51:20 AM »
Quote from: Dennis Glazener on May 06, 2017, 07:40:49 PM
Here are some photos that Mark Elliott took of my NC flint rifle and bag set. Some say Rowan county some say around Guildford county and some say Piedmont area of NC so take your pick.

Photos by Mark Elliott:















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Very nice Dennis.  Is that Cast On or Cast Off on the second rifle; or a distorted image?
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Offline Dennis Glazener

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2017, 01:18:27 AM »
Cast off.
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2017, 01:29:48 AM »
Dennis was the rifle and bag set pasted down through a family? Any story behind it?  It sure is neat.
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2017, 01:31:48 AM »
Dennis:  those are images of the same rifle, yes?
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2017, 03:13:01 AM »
Thanks fellas.  Love seeing all I haven't seen.  8)

Funny little learnin' thing I got goin' on.   ;)
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Offline Dennis Glazener

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2017, 03:35:03 AM »
Quote from: jdm on May 07, 2017, 01:29:48 AM
Dennis was the rifle and bag set pasted down through a family? Any story behind it?  It sure is neat.
John,
Not this one, you are thinking of the Mathew Gillespie rifle. This one came from Ray McKnight 4 or 5 years ago. Ray had it in his collection for over 40 years.
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Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on May 07, 2017, 01:31:48 AM
Dennis:  those are images of the same rifle, yes?
Yes all are different views of the same rifle.
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2017, 03:48:18 AM »
Quote from: jdm on May 06, 2017, 09:38:49 PM
Here's one with a Robert Hughes attribution.  I know it's been on here before but it's the only  one I have.

Maybe it's been seen here before, but I'm sure glad you reposted it:  I'd missed it earlier, and this posting made me run for my work table and go to gouging on the buttstock I'd thought I'd just about finished whittling on.

Funny thing about it is, the closer I get mine to shaped like Hughes did on this one, the better she feels against my cheek... and I'd thought it felt pretty good before. 

That's what I love about what I think of as the "classic" SMR:  they might look simplistic, but those ol' boys were masters of form-to-function design.

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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2017, 03:50:21 AM »
Guys,

Here is one, still has hard grease in the hole!



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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2017, 04:53:02 PM »
Slightly off topic,but fits. Deep River half stock that I like.



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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2017, 07:02:49 PM »
From the number of rifles being posted that have no buttplate gives me the impression that these may have been more common that I had thought before. Having come from dirt poor Mississippi I can easily picture someone going to a gunsmith and saying give me a good shooting rifle but leave off what I do not absolutely need. I just need to put meat on the table!
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #23 on: May 07, 2017, 08:47:28 PM »
 yep, Tree, lock, stock & barrel
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Re: Tennessee Mountain Rifles
« Reply #24 on: May 07, 2017, 08:56:40 PM »
Quote from: James Wilson Everett on May 07, 2017, 03:50:21 AM
Guys,

Here is one, still has hard grease in the hole!





Any idea who made it?

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