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About 25 years ago , my good friend Steve Marshall , the former manager of Mansker`s Station told me , he had always liked the 19 inch barreled Jaeger in RCA 1 rifle #4 . I was working in a die cast plant at the time, full time in die repair. I just built guns on the side. Steve told me he had some parts to build a little rifle ,like the one he liked. Needless to say , the original was stocked in European Walnut , ours has a donated curly Maple stock. The original had a .56 cal. bore 19 inch barrel , ours has a hand swamped CVA .45 cal barrel, not a lot of swamp, but enough . We had a Siler lock , which was close to the original , I unbridled it and coffin shaped the frizzen , and reshaped the frizzen spring finial. The trigger guard was reshaped and pieced together. The muzzle cap is black horn . The butt plate and, thimbles were reshaped from Brown Bess castings. Steve kept the rifle , until last Spring . He called me and told me he wanted me to have it back .In the long run this little rifle is FAR from the original, but I did get some good practice trying to copy shapes and forms. It actually shoots decent , considering the short barrel . I do believe it was one of the "good" CVA barrels. Anyway ,It is a pretty cool conversation piece , and most people that get hold of it want to sit and rub on it , which helps with the patina . Thanks Nate. I encourage those who wonder to compare to rifle #4 . Not a copy , but fairly close , considering working from a book with parts at hand.
