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Offline Daniel Coats

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New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« on: September 17, 2022, 10:57:32 PM »
Here's my latest Soddy. 44 inch Rice barrel squirrel profile.40 caliber Chambers late Ketland lock Ross Dillion triggers all modified for this build. Hand forged hardware including sights built from a Walnut plank from Allen Martin. 13 1/2 inch pull total weight 6 pounds 6 ounces. Rifle is meant to look like an original mountain gun with forging marks left in place. Lots of pictures some with Jack Duprey's gun I used as inspiration.

Hope you like her she was a lot of fun to build!




























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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2022, 11:04:27 PM »
Thats a nice one! Both are very good!
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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2022, 11:16:10 PM »
A perfect recreation of a Soddy. Some are "Soddy-like" but miss some important features. Yours is a true Soddy.
Thanks for posting the pictures.
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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2022, 11:51:17 PM »
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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2022, 12:17:21 AM »
Beautiful job, Dan!  You give great inspiration to all gunmakers who like and are enchanted with the Soddy style.  To say, "you nailed it", seems inadequate when looking at your work.  Your Soddy tutorial/build-along was priceless! Keep 'em coming.  Need to see more!

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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2022, 12:39:43 AM »
 THAT is Really well done.

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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2022, 01:12:08 AM »
Im not sure I could choose between the 2 if I had too.  Wow!  Great job, Dan!  Hopefully u get a chance to shoot them.
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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2022, 04:43:45 PM »
Fantastic job!

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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2022, 08:42:41 AM »
Nice pair, I can't decide which one I like better.

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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2022, 04:21:01 PM »
Thanks for all the kind words I'm lucky enough to own two of Jack's rifles that I carry around and refer to often. I have two more Soddy Daisy School guns planned at the moment. One is a 48 inch swamped barrel in 25 caliber the other one is another Uber skinny 36 caliber gun.
Dan

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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2022, 07:11:12 AM »
Dan,

Thanks for posting the final product. It's a beautiful rifle. I really appreciated your build videos. They were interesting and instructional.

Dave

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Re: New Soddy Daisy by Dan Coats
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2022, 06:36:36 AM »
Send me a PM if you really like this rifle.
Dan

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