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I love that rifle ... and ... my wife likes guns with light colored stocks. Of course, that means I must as well ... and I do. Great find. Dale
Well, it's gonna be a heavy hold with that barrel, but that can actually be an advantage in "off hand" shooting competition.The blonde stock really caught my eye, everything else I own has dark wood
Will definetly send pix. My wife has really been eyeballing this muzzleloader so I might lose it. Oh well, just happy she likes shooting!The caliber designation should follow the GR DOUGLAS stamp on the barrel. Because Douglas did the deep drilling after the flats were milled, there was often a run out of the bore. The GR DOUGLAS stamp was on the flat with the run out. @MTFURY's barrel has the stamp on the top flat so accuracy should be controllable by elevation of the sights. The barrels were supplied long for the gunsmith to choose the end with the least run out for the muzzle and to cut off the breech side for threading in the breech and tang for best fit of the threaded breech and to cut to the desired barrel length. Since the Douglas barrels were straight either end could be chosen for the muzzle. Since the stamp was at the end with the runout, the stamp remained at the breech.
While this rifle could be said to be of the pattern of a CVA Mountain Rifle, it most certainly is not a CVA Mountain Rifle. It is far better than that.
MTFURY, be sure to provide some pictures of a target once you have developed an accurate load.
They were asking 800.00 and I gave 1/2 that.
Yes I doDon't you just love to steal these desirable creations?
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