Thank you for the comments. It’s all Wallace Guslers fault! I was a freshman in high school when they showed The Gunsmith from Williamsburg, and that started me down the rabbit hole.
Living out west all my life and not having access to original's it has been difficult to get an understanding of how they were made. I have several books including Robert Weils Contemporary Makers book and I have studied everything I could find that Bivins wrote. I bought the Moravian Gunmaking II Book but I still struggled with the design on this rifle. I finally thought “ok, if I landed on the East coast in the 1700s near Christian’s Spring and had all winter to build a rifle to take West… what would I build?” And that’s how it ended up.
Thank you,
William Johnson
