Newest Southern Mountain Rifle

[mgbruch]

Here is my latest Southern Mountain rifle; built from a blank.

The barrel is Colerain’s B weight, 44” swamped, in .50 caliber, with their standard rifling.  The lock is a Jim Chambers Late Ketland, and the double set triggers are my own.  I perform all the work myself, and I make all of the iron furniture.  But I do buy all my bolts, screws, touch hole liners, and finishing supplies.  The stock is a nice piece of Red maple, and has not been sanded, but scraped and burnished.  I stained the wood with Aquafortis, followed by Laurel Mountain Forge's Maple stain.  The final finish is about 10 coats of Permalyn Sealer.   Drop to heel is 3 ½”.  Length of pull is 13 ½”.  And cast-off is 3/16”.

This rifle is number nine from a blank for me.  I think she turned out pretty good.  And she has a new home to go to.

[Wingshot]

That is beautiful! Curious about your metal treatment, specifically the lock. I’m currently building my first from a blank and love how yours is treated.

[mgbruch]

Thanks Wingshot.

I treated the metal with Historic House Parts' brass  tarnishing solution.  I bought it from Jim Kibler a while back; and I'm pretty sure it's what he used prior to his current offering.  I imagine they're pretty much the same chemically.

[Spalding]

That’s one fine looking rifle.
I really like the trigger guard and toeplate.

Bob

[Stoner creek]

 Looks great. I’ve got one in the works whenever I get back to the shop. Too many weeds that need my attention right now.

[Daryl]

REALLY nice rifle and the dimensions sound perfect to me.

[Ken G]

I like the overall presentation but really like your forge work.  Nice looking trigger set also.  Very nice.

Ken

[Mike Brooks]

Cool beans man. I didn't know anybody made those from a plank anymore.

[Panzerschwein]

I use a special scale called the Scale of Dandiness to grade rifles I see.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with one being the least dandy, and 10 being the dandiest of all, this rifle rates a solid 10/10.

[wattlebuster]

Nice work. I like it

[Bob Gerard]

Holy smokes! You have one fantastic rifle there. Very fortunate the is man who it belongs to.

[oldtravler61]

 Well done....   Oldtravler

[Old Time Hunter]

Nice work !

[AZshot]

I really like this rifle.  The color of the wood is exactly what I would go for if I made one, not too dark, not too light.  It's classic all around.

[Fly Navy]

I really like this style of rifle and its even better when its well done like this one is.

[Keith Zimmerman]

Gorgeous rifle.

[TommyG]

Nice, clean & crisp work. Beautiful, warm finish.  Great looking gun.

[JBJ]

Super nice!!!
J.B.

[Richard]

Furniture and trigger work is very impressive!!  Great job.

[duca]

Nicely Done!! Looks Great!!

Anthony

[Tacitus]

Oh my! I like everything about that rifle.

[Tony N]

Love everything about this piece!  Beautiful
Thank you for sharing

Tony

[mgbruch]

Thanks for all the kind words.

[alacran]

Late to the party, been Rendezvousing. Great iron work.

[msw]

great looking work!