Green River Rifle Works

[doccarver]

Back in 1980, I went into town to buy a suit for work and had to pass Roy Alexander & Sons Gunsmiths in Perth Western Australia and they had a USA made GRRW half-stock Leman rifle in .54 cal. So I went home with the rifle and no suit. I still have that rifle and it is a great shooter. Since that time, Alan Vaisham from GRRW Australia has made me a J & S Hawkin full stock flintlock rifle in .50 cal, a copy of Jim Bridger’s halfstock Hawkin rifle in .54 cal and a Jacob Dickert Lancaster County Pennsylvania longrifle. These are all superb rifles. I am getting back into muzzlelaoding again after 13 years and I am looking forward to shooting these rifles again. One of these days I will photograph my guns and post them on the net.

Regards

Doc Carver
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

 

[faw3]

REALLY A GOOD IDEA,the pic's of Hawkens , lets start another Hawken pic site, I know Claude will love me for this one....if ya was around here a year ago ect(after 2000 views he'd cut it off because it was gumming up the works.) :rotf: FRED :hatsoff:

 

[Herb]

Doc, you have some good guns!

 

[J.W.Neely]

I better jump in here, I am relatively new to muzzleloaders, I started out with the Sharps rifles back 9 yrs. ago and while I still enjoy them I have fallen in luv with muzzleloaders.
I built one flintlock from TOW and it is a fine shooter.
Recently I purchased a .50 percussion half stock Leman GRRW with Neill Fields maker mark on it.
I took it to the range yesterday and the 1st shot @ 50 yrds hit dead bulls-eye. So besides being a beautiful rifle it is a great shooter.
I will be on the scout for any rifle Mr. Fields made.

 

[Herb]

Neill is a good friend of mine and a great builder. He has now built more than 400 muzzleloading firearms. Tomorrow we go over into Deep Creek for Xmas day dinner with a couple of other friends who also worked at the old Green River Rifle Works. Too much snow and too cold to do any shooting, but we have frequent shoots.

 

[J.W.Neely]

Herb, please tell Mr. Fields that one of his beautiful works has found a good home down in the Texas Hill country.
Merry Christmas
Neely

 

[Herb]

I told him about your post and that pleased him. While we were at this party, his stock supplier from Tennessee phoned him and he ordered a couple of high grade stock blanks for his next two rifles. He told me he really likes the .40 x 13/16" x 44" Ed Rayl barrel I let him have recently. It really shoots good. He works so fast, he had this rifle done before I knew he was building it.

I was out in the Texas hill country, I guess, a year ago. Visited a friend at Medina, south of Kerrville, toured some ranches where he was doing prescribed fire brush reduction. Even got to sit in a deer blind with him, but no deer close enough. Saw a lot of brush, though.

 

[J.W.Neely]

Heck, I am just a hoot and hooler away from Median.

 

[Herb]

Uh, that would be Medina. In North Dakota we pronounced that Me dye na. Down there you call it Medeena. My friend is Keith Blair, and he has a web site,[url] www.myredbuffalo.com[/url]. (Red buffalo is a native American description of fire). On his home page you'll see "The Magic Field" which is a story I wrote about prescribed fire on a North Dakota Prairie.

 

[Ron LaClair]

I've had my GRRW Leman .54 Plains rifle since 1976. I couldn't tell you how many deer it's taken over the years.

Here's my wife with that rifle last year.