Sheetz is finally done (New/better pics 2/27/22)

[Dave]

That's one fine rifle, well done!

[Levy]

Well, the comet AND the Mississippi flowing backwards in the same year must have put a lot of folks on edge.  James Levy

[B Shipman]

Like it. Clearly a Reeves Henry Abright buttplate. Right?

[Dphariss]

Nice job.
About the “fight”.
I learned many years ago when I was the custom shop for a brass suppository maker that some guns just like being in the shop. They don’t want to leave, they have found a home OR as I suspected at Shiloh there was a gremlin with a trapdoor living under the floor that would steal dropped screws (only odd hard to replace ones like some 36 pitch from some project of mine) and would somehow create problems on “done” guns so that when you looked at it one last time before it went to shipping and it would be “how the &$%@# did that happen”. Trust me, I feel your pain.  Just went through it last week.
But again, nice work. Not a fan of dies and such but I like the color…

[alacran]

Relly like the rifle now that Jim Filipsky made the photos viewable. Like the carving behind the cheek piece. Before Jim's fix, couldn't really tell what was there.

[Bob Gerard]

It looks like you’re getting the hang of this stuff 😁

That’s one the coolest rifles ever. Dang.

[Mike Brooks]

It looks like you’re getting the hang of this stuff 😁

That’s one the coolest rifles ever. Dang.

Happens to be the last one I built too. Is this what a vacation feels like? I haven't had a vacation since the 90s.   

[Bob McBride]

I made another John Sheetz rifle a few years ago that is very similar. This one has the Rice Southern Classic barrel in .50. Very light gun, probably 6.5lbs.

Nifty. I’d love to have that sign (you might actually get a good price for it if you auctioned it off) ….once you actually retire retire.

[Austin]

Kinda like having the hood ornament off Elvis’s limo…

[Stoner creek]

Don’t write the old boy off yet. I know of at least a half dozen projects that he has plans for.

[Mike Brooks]

Don’t write the old boy off yet. I know of at least a half dozen projects that he has plans for.

Since I can't do anything but sit in a chair right now I'm getting highly inspired. I've been going all gooey over Fordney for a couple days now.

[Stoner creek]

Don’t write the old boy off yet. I know of at least a half dozen projects that he has plans for.

Since I can't do anything but sit in a chair right now I'm getting highly inspired. I've been going all gooey over Fordney for a couple days now.

 Open up your Virginia books. There’s a stock with a brass barrel inlet out there in your shop somewhere. Order yourself some inspiration from that!!