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Offline Robby

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #650 on: March 24, 2018, 04:58:00 PM »
I made this Ohio style gun for my daughter some years ago, .36.







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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #651 on: March 24, 2018, 07:00:21 PM »
Robby, that’s a little beauty!  Fine work, your daughter must be proud every time she takes it out!

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #652 on: March 24, 2018, 08:18:10 PM »
I like the Ohio gun, very groovy baby......
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #653 on: March 24, 2018, 09:00:49 PM »
A real slender beauty, Robby.
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #654 on: March 25, 2018, 03:45:25 AM »
Very nice Robby

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #655 on: May 12, 2018, 01:19:28 PM »
Some really nice squirrel rifles. 
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #656 on: May 12, 2018, 03:45:48 PM »
MY latest squirrel rifle is a Kibler in .32, it came out nice.

 


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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #657 on: May 12, 2018, 06:21:51 PM »
Sure did Eric.  Nice looking rifle!

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #658 on: May 12, 2018, 08:07:46 PM »
Looks great Eric!  Is that walnut?
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #659 on: May 13, 2018, 12:20:08 AM »
That rifle is awesome and I want one like it.  THERE NOW!
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #660 on: May 13, 2018, 03:32:02 AM »
It is walnut and darker that the picture would suggest.

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #661 on: July 22, 2018, 09:01:23 AM »
Here's mine - a Tip Curtis Lancaster in .32, 36" straight Green Mountain barrel. It's my first muzzleloader. I got it yesterday, and fired it for the first time this morning. In the afternoon I took it to the field. We don't have much in the the way of tree squirrels where I live, but plenty of ground squirrels.




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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #662 on: July 25, 2018, 08:59:43 AM »
Cossak - Very nice rifle - make sure you clean her well.
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #663 on: September 11, 2018, 12:51:34 AM »











   .40 Cal Flintlock that I picked up this past spring.  (Seller told me Jim Webb was the gunsmith that made it, but the barrel is unsigned. Doesn't bother me a bit. She is a beautiful, working rifle.
  The target was 30 yds away, 1st two shots actually "keyholed" 3rd shot had a ever so slight hangfire, but still probably dropped the critter for the skillet. 
  Only used 25 gr FFF, that lonnnng 46" barrel makes the most of gas pressure!

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #664 on: September 11, 2018, 02:41:51 AM »


This is a 36 cal GN barrel, 42".
Cherry stock from my friends tree.
Yet to claim a squirrel with it but I have it hitting pretty good now and should pile em' up this fall.
Gonna make a qt of pickeled squirrel hearts!

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #665 on: September 12, 2018, 12:02:53 AM »
Ah!  New eye candy; love it.
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #666 on: September 12, 2018, 01:55:28 AM »
She started out as a Jack Garner .36 but I had Bobby Hoyt make it into a much better .40 w/ radius groove rifling.
















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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #667 on: April 13, 2019, 11:37:14 PM »
Brought to the top.
Anyone build a squirrel rifle not here yet?
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #668 on: April 14, 2019, 12:00:01 AM »
Here’s mine...it’s a .36x42” Green Mountain barrel, L&R Late English lock I got from Stoner Creek, and a set of Dennis’ Gillespie hardware. Nothin’ fancy, just a 7 pound nutcracker.

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #669 on: April 14, 2019, 12:56:12 AM »



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JP McCoy ..durs egg lock...Started off life as a .36 cal.....now is sporting a .45 cal Green Mountain barrel.

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #671 on: April 14, 2019, 01:57:37 AM »
Nothing fancy Greg?  She's a beauty.  I am guessing you already figured out that those GM barrels are tack drivers and not fussy.  I have a swamped GM .50 barrel set back in the safe until I rise to the top of my friend's "build list".  God Bless,   Marc

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #672 on: April 14, 2019, 02:30:06 PM »
Thanks Marc.  I’ve used a lot of Green Mountain barrels, mostly on my 19th century cartridge rifles, and I really like them. It’s a shame they don’t make the swamped muzzleloader barrels anymore. I have a 44” .50 swamped sitting in a corner, for “build after next”...but first, a 16 gauge fowler.

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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #673 on: April 14, 2019, 11:21:16 PM »
GM barrels are accurate, that's for sure.  I have a "C" weight .40 GM barreled rifle.  A tad "weighty" but not all that bad since the swamp helps it balance so smoothly. 
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Re: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!!
« Reply #674 on: April 15, 2019, 04:36:26 PM »
By, but there are some bonny rifles in this thread!

All good work for that matter!
Some very gifted folks, here.

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