English Sporting rifle

My custom English 54 cal sporting rifle came today


and she s a beaut,30inch barrel with horn forend and ramrod tip, steel furniture and capbox

Nice,I like the looks of that. :thumbsup:

Very nice. Now that has "whitetail" written all over it. Great caliber, too.

That's what I pretend my New Englander should look like when I'm carrying it. :hatsoff:

Mighty fine looking gun!
Who made it?
Please tell us more.
Fred

Old Ford said:

Mighty fine looking gun!
Who made it?
Please tell us more.
Fred

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Yes, Please! :bow:

It was made by Ed Dillion in the States.I m thinking on having a smoothbore built along the same lines but with a half oct barrel.

To reiterate to my last post, your English Sporting rifle is perhaps the best "NEW" old rifle designs that I have seen in some time.
I have an IAB Marcheno .50 cal. English Sporting rifle, made by IAB in the early 80's.It is very nice, but it is not close to yours.
The style never caught on, especially with the Hawken craze, and of course the English rifle was never front and center in American appreciation.
Best regards
Old Ford

I have an original Westley Richards Sporting Rifle
that is similar. Some pics of it were posted here quite a while ago. Post #646371.

Duane

Duane said:

I have an original Westley Richards Sporting Rifle
that is similar. Some pics of it were posted here quite a while ago. Post #646371.

Duane

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Can't figure out how to reference that post here so you can click on it.

Duane

Very sharp :thumbsup:

Duane said:

Duane said:

I have an original Westley Richards Sporting Rifle
that is similar. Some pics of it were posted here quite a while ago. Post #646371.

Duane

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Can't figure out how to reference that post here so you can click on it.

Duane

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Here's Duane's pics from the earlier post

That's one good looking, well made rifle; very elegant, I must say.

Thanks Supercracker!!

Duane

Absolutely beautiful!
David

Duane said:

Thanks Supercracker!!

Duane

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No problem. You wouldn't happen to have a pic of the face of the standing breech and water table plate would you?

Later on this year I will be starting a rifle project and was going to style it after a WR percussion gun with the same set up and have not been able to get a look at how they did that.

Supercracker said:

Duane said:

Thanks Supercracker!!

Duane

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No problem. You wouldn't happen to have a pic of the face of the standing breech and water table plate would you?

Later on this year I will be starting a rifle project and was going to style it after a WR percussion gun with the same set up and have not been able to get a look at how they did that.

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PM me your email and I'll get a bunch of pics over to you.

Duane

Beautiful, I can't imagine a better hunting rifle. :thumbsup:

barbarossa - that is certainly a fine looking rifle! Will look forward to a range report. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: