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I am determined, while I have some rare free time between contracts, to finish as many of the partially started rifles and pistols I have put on hold as I learned enough from the great builders on this and other sites to know how much I didn't know (if that makes any sense....?) Â The problem with completing projects I started before I learned as much as I have now is that I have to live with a lot of things that I would not now do the same way. Â However, I have determined that I can learn more by making the best of what I have rather than throwing it all out and starting over.
So here is another rifle that I really started in parallel with the walnut stocked rifle I just finished. Â The architecture had long been established as well as some of the parts I used. Â I had originally planned to make another brass patch box, but in building the copy of the Kibler rifle that I completed a while ago, I made my first wooden patch box got the hang of it. Â I changed over to one here. Â The barrel is a Rice, 42 inch, swamped, round bottom rifling in .50 cal. Â I had already inletted a Chamber English round faced lock along with the barrel. Â I liked the carving I copied on the Kibler rifle and am using many of the same elements here, with some modifications.
So here is is so far................
So here is another rifle that I really started in parallel with the walnut stocked rifle I just finished. Â The architecture had long been established as well as some of the parts I used. Â I had originally planned to make another brass patch box, but in building the copy of the Kibler rifle that I completed a while ago, I made my first wooden patch box got the hang of it. Â I changed over to one here. Â The barrel is a Rice, 42 inch, swamped, round bottom rifling in .50 cal. Â I had already inletted a Chamber English round faced lock along with the barrel. Â I liked the carving I copied on the Kibler rifle and am using many of the same elements here, with some modifications.
So here is is so far................
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