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    SOLD REDUCED. 52 Percussion Lancaster Rifle

    (1) You will never find an antique lock that looks exactly like a Siler regardless of how Silers were marketed. I have seen the antique lock first-hand that Bud Siler allegedly used as a model and even it doesn't look like a Siler to my eye. Of course, maybe I was fed bad information about the...
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    SOLD REDUCED. 52 Percussion Lancaster Rifle

    Dude nothing personal, but that's not an antique lock. That's a Siler plate and cut down Siler pan. 100%.
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    Berks County Rifle

    I have not conducted a huge amount of research in Berks Co but if anyone here has, it might be worthwhile to look into a man named Andrew "Keen" or "Kane" (I suspect it was originally Kein or something like that) who was in Douglass twp (home of Henry Mauger) in 1785 as a single man and also...
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    Berks County Rifle

    I'm not sure if you're joking or if you realize that I was joking. Sorry! Tim Burton is a movie director who makes really weird films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas etc. Some of his animated trailers and posters - especially for Nightmare before Christmas-...
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    Berks County Rifle

    It's kind of tough to really make any determinations accurately because I can't really zoom in too much on the photos without them pixelating. The lock is definitely ill-fitted to the plate mortice but there has been so much damage that it's impossible to tell if it belongs there or not without...
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    Berks County Rifle

    This is an extremely interesting rifle. It is definitely not Andrew Klinedinst. Much of it looks very much like Henry Mauger's work, but there are also details which display some difference. Then the question needs to be raised as to whether the barrel was restocked as it clearly has been...
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    SOLD Don Stith Custom Hawken.

    I'll take it. Sending you a PM.
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    WANTED Bolek Maciasczczyk wheellock

    So got one, it's real and it's spectacular. Anyway always looking, so if you have one please let me know and we'll talk. I'll bump this periodically - always interested.
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    WANTED Bolek Maciasczczyk wheellock

    PM sent back - thanks!
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    WANTED Bolek Maciasczczyk wheellock

    As the title says. I'd like a Bolek Maciaszczyk wheellock mechanism and I know it will be north of 1K, so price from 1K to one meeeeeeeeeellllllion dollars. We'll talk amongst ourselves but without Linda Richman and coffee. Let me know if you have one to sell. BTW no I am not contacting...
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    CLOSED Laubach lock

    If you've got a Laubach lock you're not using, I'll buy it. $400 plus whatever priority mail small flat rate box shipping costs.
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    Moravian inspired build

    Maybe it's supposed to be a leopard or a cheetah or something? Frankly I don't really think it looks like a dog, and it doesn't look like a lion either compared to the very blatant lion on the L/L rifle. Who knows! I don't remember who started calling it the 'two tailed dog,' I think Stan...
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    Moravian inspired build

    I've been able to compare the lion/lamb and the 'Griffin' Oerter rifle side by side and I've come to view them as certainly being carved by the same man. I realize some would say, "Well, Albrecht trained Oerter so maybe Albrecht carved L/L and later on Oerter carved the Griffin rifle when he...
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    Moravian inspired build

    Laubach's German lock is as good as it gets, if you can get one. Miles better than any Davis lock, no offense intended. This one is not an Albrecht, it's "attributed." It's not signed. It's a spectacular rifle, in fact I like it probably more than the lion/lamb rifle which imho is most...
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    DUAL-caliber early matchlock!

    I don't even want to think about the amount of work that must have been involved in making this! Wow. Just wow.
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    Issue-Rifles With Full Length Stocks

    Yes, that's something that definitely can happen. I'm sure it's one reason for many broken forestocks, although (jmho) I don't think it was something that happened quickly or early in the stocks' lives unless someone happened to be out in soaking downpour and subsequently brought the rifle in...
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    Issue-Rifles With Full Length Stocks

    There should not be enough forestock wood to affect the barrel in any way, and slots in the tenons as noted above should allow more than enough leeway to accommodate expansion/contraction. At least half of the antiques that I've torn apart have simple drilled holes through the lugs - no slots...
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    Ramrod drift, minimum thickness of lower web

    1/16" is fine for that area. Very typical for lehigh rifles although of course you'll see old antiques with the forearm worn through. What I would recommend is to lay out where your triggerguard is going to go, mark out roughly the forward finial of the guard, and drill a feeler hole into the...
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    Ram Rod Hole drifted up to barrel channel

    On Moll/Rupp type rifles, or more generically 'Lehigh' type rifles, you almost need the rammer hole practically into the barrel channel at the breech in order to get the forearm right. It's also going to practically mandate a tapered rod because you'll need to "thread the needle" between...
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    Cherry stocks

    Usually I stain stuff near the end of the work day and then let it dry overnight, sometimes into the next afternoon for a full 24 hours and move on to other tasks in the meantime. I don't like to hit the stocks with too much moisture all at once like a tidal wave! I also let the stocks hang...
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