An old Walmart rifle for eye candy.

EC121 said:

I had my Bartlett rifle out to take some pictures today. So, I'll post a few to look at. .50cal. built for me in 1989 by Frank Bartlett. 37" Getz barrel. Siler lock. Frank always put something under the lid. He told me the stickers came from a box of feminine hygiene products!

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Frank loved doing wire inlay. He would put it on even if you didn't want it. He built his son a rifle with 110ft. of wire. All the carving was done with wire. Even the patchbox was wire outlined. No brass.

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springfield art said:

I don't get the Wal-Mart connection? This beautiful piece wasn't a Wally, was it? Oh, I read too little, now I see the joke part! What a great rifle!

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springfield art said:

I don't get the Wal-Mart connection? This beautiful piece wasn't a Wally, was it? Oh, I read too little, now I see the joke part! What a great rifle!

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EC121 said:

Sometimes he would forge a spring that gave you the middle finger w hen the lid popped open.

BTW: All the dark metal is sterling siver that tarnished. He got into a trade of some sterling silver for a rifle. There for a while he was putting silver on everything. Notice the ends of the pipes. Also the toeplate. Every other flower is silver.

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EC121 said:

I had my Bartlett rifle out to take some pictures today. So, I'll post a few to look at. .50cal. built for me in 1989 by Frank Bartlett. 37" Getz barrel. Siler lock. Frank always put something under the lid. He told me the stickers came from a box of feminine hygiene products!

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Frank loved doing wire inlay. He would put it on even if you didn't want it. He built his son a rifle with 110ft. of wire. All the carving was done with wire. Even the patchbox was wire outlined. No brass.

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EC121 said:

Been a while since 1989, but it seems like 8 months or more. He had other orders to build. He sold me a jaeger to shoot while he built this one, and I gave him the jaeger and the difference when he dropped this one off at the house on his way to the beach. He did way more on it than I paid for. I just told him to build me a rifle with a nice patchbox.

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