Flinchrocket, you are absolutely correct. Mr Whisker had that rifle identified as a Martin Sheetz, but it was the John Jacob Sheetz rifle used by William Ross at the Battle of New Orleans. He also had it
Identified as Martin Sheetz in his first hard cover edition of Virginia gunsmiths. When I called him and told him about the mistake he told me when he had photographed my rifle at the KRA show he had mislabeled the photo at that time. He corrected that in the second edition, he simply left the photo out of the book. I do wish he would have made the correction and left the rifle in the second edition.
Bob Melancon
