679 M97 Whitetail Hunter 504 caliber with original plastic foam lined case and tools plus sample bullets. I don't think it's been fired, since the sample bullets are still in the case. The original instructions are there, too. The gun appears to be pristine, all the parts are what they are supposed to be:  Bold adjustable trigger, Marble's fiberoptik sights- green to the rear, orange in front, aluminum ramrod- perfect for loading saboted bullets, sling swivels fore and aft,  Delrin trigger guard and ramrod ferrule. 8 lbs. Criterion barrel, easily the best that White ever used.

#577- Wender over-under swivel breech- Lancaster style flintlock over-under rifle with 3/4 inch diameter Bill Large barrels in 45 cal for round ball (I've been saving those barrels for years). Stock is AA good quality maple, furniture is brass, the flintlock is back action, the swivel lock mechanism is in the front bow of the trigger guard, pull on it to swivel the barrels. Dickert style Lancaster furniture. The lock sparks quite well, no difference either side.  SOLD

The original stock decoration and patchbox engraving can be found on page 85 of Kindig's "Kentucky Rifles in their Golden Age", the original by Dickert . There is a fancy rendition of G B White on the brass piece opposite the flintlock. Sorry it's so hard to see.

#620- new, long stored White Thunder percussion 12 gauge shotgun, marked BG 2003. The finest turkey gun in the world. 90-95% first shot patterns with recommended loads. Based on the BG action, Rifle trigger with safety, secondary safety on the pull cock, cocks on the left like all modern sub-machine guns so your strong hand stays in place at grip with aces to trigger and safety. Straight rifled barrel with ventilated rib and Hastings Xtra-full, Modified and Improved Cylander chokes and a Bore-B-Dry. Strong American hardwood stock painted black with set-up for detachable sling. Rubber recoil pad a whole inch thick. Delrin ramrod with wad puller and cleaning jag. Pull 14 inches. Weighs 5.5 lbs.  SOLD

#567- Southern-Virginia walnut stocked step wrist rifle as per Klett in 50 caliber with walnut fullstock and all iron mounts. The barrel is by Colerain, swamped, 54 caliber, 44 inches long. The walnut is excellent quality with good figure in the butt. The lock is by Davis and throws fat sparks. It is much like his Tulle lock but round faced, coming real close to matching an original English trade lock. There is a four piece iron patchbox with domed lid, a modest amount of incised and raised carving  and Klett's inimitable engraving. The conformation of the stock is excellent for off-hand shooting, it handles really well. 

Several pictures of this gun can be found in several longrifle picture books. It's quite a famous piece. The best are on p.83 of 'Rifles of Virginia', by Whisker

#619- new, long stored White Thunder percussion 12 gauge shotgun, marked BG 2003. The finest turkey gun in the world. 90-95% first shot patterns with recommended loads. Based on the BG action, Rifle trigger with safety, secondary safety on the pull cock, cocks on the left like all modern sub-machine guns so your strong hand stays in place at grip with aces to trigger and safety. Straight rifled barrel with ventilated rib and Hastings Xtra-full, Modified and Improved Cylander chokes and a Bore-B-Dry. Strong American hardwood stock painted black with set-up for detachable sling. Rubber recoil pad a whole inch thick. Delrin ramrod with wad puller and cleaning jag. Pull 14 inches. Weighs 5.5 lbs.  

The orange thing is the plastic Bore-B-Dry, it protects the nipple. Load it with 1 7/8 oz. of shot in a White tapered plastic shot cup with 2 wonder wads over 100 gr. FFg Black Powder  and one over the shot. It will throw the shot at 1200 FPS and kil turkeys at 50 yards. 

#608 US Common Rifle, model of 1814. 54 caliber for round ball. 33 inch long 1/3 octagon, 2/3 round tapered barrel by Colerain. Plain walnut stock (none were fancy), authentic furniture cast from an original, original style French influenced flintlock with proper 'Derringer Phila.' and 'U.S.' markings, even the internals are strict military dimensions. Sling swivels, trigger, side opening patch box, band springs, sights and steel trumpet ramrod are all authentic. This is an utterly charming military rifle. Balance is excellent. Pull 13 3/4 inches but feels longer . Weight between 7 and 8 lbs, at a guess.  Only 1500 of the originals were ever made. I've never seen another reproduction. 

The original patchbox is a famous one. It's not on a rifle, as the original rifle was destroyed. Many of Dickerts  patch boxes resemble it, but this one is the fanciest. Dickert's stuff can be found in all the major picture books. Some of the best are in Kindig's big book on 'the Kentucky Rifle in its Golden Age'.

#616- Baker Infantry rifle, as issued except an elegant walnut stock, far better than military grade wood, , 62 caliber Colerain barrel,  brass furniture, deeply blued lock and browned barrel. The ramrod is most interesting- it has a swell that just fits the front ferrule so there is no jiggle or rattle to betray your presence to the enemy. This is the  best flintlock issue military flintlock rifle in the world. It is extremely well designed, handles like a dream and has the caliber to take any game in North America, let alone defend yourself against Napoleons minions or those pesky backwoodsmen outside of New Orleans. SOLD

#581- English Pistol Gripped Sporting rifle with super fancy walnut halfstock, most of  the details same as #580 above, except the wood is different but just as elegant and the trigger guard, which is stainless steel, now black tefloned (shown in stainless). The only significant differences are the wood and the shape and material of the trigger guard. POR  Make an offer, we listen. 

#651- White early experimental M97 Whitetail Hunter with 22 inch barrel in 504 caliber mounted in B&C double palm swell fibercomposite stock,  which was one of Doc's better designs.  Fitted with single piece scope mount which takes Warne 1/2 inch QD mounts. The shape of the mount deflects dirty powder gases away from the scope. Criterion barrels were the best of all. Double ended ramrod with cleaning jag and bullet puller. Steel trigger guard. Double safety with one on the trigger and another on the pull-cock. Cocking lever is on the left, as in all good modern assault rifles and trigger safety is on the right, easy to the thumb. 

#648- Super 91-II #SB782, once belonging to the White shooting team, finely tuned, very accurate, in need of re-furbishing. More pics as it gets done. It will get new action parts, a refinished stock, new ramrod and sights. Ramrod hole needs to be re-drilled as the forestock is filled with weights for fancy offhand shooting. The barrel is floated. It can be fitted with scope mounts if you want. SOLD

#646- White Super-91-II with thumbhole stock. The 504 caliber blued barreled action is new but stored lo these many years. Glass bedded and accurized. 

The gun has all internal parts, with Williams adjustable rear and brass bead front sights, trigger guard is steel, curved super Decelerator  recoil pad, M70 style safety, double ended ramrod with cleaning jag and bullet puller, but still awaits sling swivels fore and aft. There is a pebbled black finish on the stock. The laminate wood is painted because it is particularly ugly. It came to me with a few cracks and dings that needed repairing. Epoxy, pegs and body putty work wonders. SOLD

#636-  WHITE Whitetail  # WS5654 stainless in 410 caliber with Black painted American Hardwood stock (a euphemism for beech).  it has the usual Williams adjustable sights with a red front bead, the trigger is adjustable with safety on the right, handy to your thumb, the ramrod is Delrin with a threaded brass tip. The trigger guard is blued steel. Pull is 14 inches over an inch thick recoil pad. It is yet to be fitted with sling swivels. It has been Accurized and is accurate. 410's always are. Shoots a 400 grain slip-fit bullet over 50-60 grains powder, with 200 yard ballistics every bit as good as a 451.  $350  SOLD

#582- Dutch inspired Wheelock with authentic lock kit from the Rifle Shoppe and swamped 42 inch barrel in 54 caliber from Colerain. The walnut fullstock is pretty plain but has great grain structure especially through the wrist. Pull is 14". All furniture is iron with a forged trigger guard, double ferrules holding the ramrod and plain fore-end tip. There are two bolts holding the lock in place. The lock is cased a gray-blue and it has front and rear sights. It is amazing how well balanced this rifle is and how well it holds. Manufacturing a wheel-lock from scratch is quite a project.  

#581- English Pistol Gripped Sporting rifle with super fancy walnut halfstock, most of  the details same as #580 above, except the wood is different but just as elegant and the trigger guard, which is stainless steel, now black tefloned (shown in stainless). The only significant differences are the wood and the shape and material of the trigger guard. POR  Make an offer, we listen. SOLD

This rifle is shown with screw on elegant English style Springfield-like adjustable sight. You can add a Vernier stand up adjustable  ladder rear sight mounted on the wrist. The cost of the rear sight, if chosen will be added to the base cost of the rifle.

  When I aquired this paticular trigger guard it appeared to be rusty, but it was just discloration from years of lying about. It turned out to be stainless, didn't discover that until it was inletted in the gun. It now has  a coat of black teflon to  match the deep blue of the lock and breeching. 

These Sporting Rifles are truly extrordinary. The barrels were originally designed by Whitworth using a long hexagonal bullet and a fast 1-20 twist. That bullet was later modified by various English designers including Rigby and  Medford, then later by myself, becoming the multi-grooved, round cross section, lubricated bullet used nowadays in Whitworth, RIgby and White rifles. All are capable of astounding long range accuracy and superior down range killing power. I can't claim much in all this- all I did was adapt the Old Masters ideas to modern production techniques. None-the-less, these are the finest, quickest and most powerful modern muzzleloading hunting rifles in the world! This rifle will be a touch less expensive than #580, simply because of the trigger guard.

#575- Bedford Co. Longrifle, copy of a fine rifle by Joseph Mills,  with 45 caliber Rayl barrel 42 inches long mounted in AAA fancy maple stock, L&R traditional Bedford Co. flintlock and DST.  Furniture is brass with silver accents. Drop on the stock is pretty steep, excellent for offhand shooting. The rifle mirrors the early style flint rifle, with more carving and less inlay work. The Bedford rifles heavy with inlay were all made late in the 19th century. 

The rifle is quite light, less than 7 lbs. and very handy for offhand shooting. The pull is 13.5 inches, but the steepness of drop makes it hold beautifully for stand on your hind legs shooting.. Rayl  barrels have an excellent reputation for accuracy.

There is typical Bedford Co engraving on the brass patchbox and an eagle on the star on the cheekpiece. My photography doesn't show it very well but it can be seen on the original on page 104  of "Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Co. Gunsmiths" The teardrops at the wrist are decorated with hatching.

The lock is an elegant thing. It is as fancy inside as it is outside and is a great sparker. Don't let its slim elegance fool you.

The maple is AAA, finished with oil in many layers, polished between coatings. 

There is a traditional double bolted tang, touch-hole is SunSetted properly, the DST is  a specific model for Bedford Co. rifles. The lock is one of the better designed and executed on the market. The internals are even more elegant than the external parts. As an aside, I once visited Calvin Hetrick in Maryland back in the 60's. He had hundreds of these lying around the house. He is long gone and so is the collection. It's very hard to find an original now and even more expensive to buy one.

#566- A brand new never fired Virginia-North Carolina infuenced 58 caliber smoothbore "Black Rifle' with dark-stained smooth-grained cherry stock and all iron mounts, including iron patchbox cover,  finished dark in the old style for hard use in the deep woods. Barrel is a 44" swamped Colerain in 58 smoothbore for patched round ball. It sports low rifle sights, lock is a Chambers English Trade lock, the touch-hole is a stainless insert and is properly SunSetted for fastest ignition.. Like all Chamber's locks, this one is a fine sparker. If your persona is a southern deep woods hunter, this is the gun for you. 

This 'smooth rifle' should be a real killer in the woods with either ball or shot. Showing a lot of mixed early German and a few English features, note the very German features in the carving to the rear of the cheek-piece, It could have been used by the Militia at Cowpens. Tarleton's English are still running. 

The patchbox opens with a latch actuated from the buttstock. The latch is hidden behind the patchbox lid and is spring loaded. There is a large storage area under the lid, big enough for not only patches but also cleaning tools, grease and oil.

While the lock and the sidelock piece are English, the buttstock shows carved decoration very much in the German style. The stepped wrist is also German. Both details are  often seen on Jaegers.

Several pictures of this gun can be found in several longrifle picture books. It's quite a famous piece. The best are on p.83 of 'Rifles of Virginia', by Whisker

#608 US Common Rifle, model of 1814. 54 caliber for round ball. 33 inch long 1/3 octagon, 2/3 round tapered barrel by Colerain. Plain walnut stock (none were fancy), authentic furniture cast from an original, original style French influenced flintlock with proper 'Derringer Phila.' and 'U.S.' markings, even the internals are strict military dimensions. Sling swivels, trigger, side opening patch box, band springs, sights and steel trumpet ramrod are all authentic. This is an utterly charming military rifle. Balance is excellent. Pull 13 3/4 inches but feels longer . Weight between 7 and 8 lbs, at a guess.  Only 1500 of the originals were ever made. I've never seen another reproduction. 

#638- WHITE Super 91-II Blue in 504 caliber with 3-9 power Traditions scope in Weaver extended mounts, Adjustable trigger, side safety on the right, secondary safety on the pullcock, steel trigger guard, plain Delrin ramrod. B&C black fiber-compositie stock with checkering. Accurized with glass bedding and bore lapping. The rifle would usually sell for $500, plus $50 for the scope mounts plus the scope in addition.  I would take $625 for the set-up OBO. SOLD

#568- Brand new never fired Dimmick St Louis half stock Plains Rifle with Kelly one inch diameter X 32 inch long octagon barrel in 50 caliber for round ball, brass mounts, shows English influence, with Manton style heavy hooked patent breech and drip bar percussion sidelock, a far better setup than any Hawken. The lock is an original Golcher, restored to it's former glory. Trigger is single, housed in a brass trigger guard with obvious English features, buttplate is American St Louis style all the way, There are the usual open plains rifle sights, two keys mounted in brass ovals with brass nose cap and ferrule. Ferrules on the under-rib are steel for 3/8th inch ramrod. Kelly barrels have proven to be very accurate. 

#573- Fancy Bucks Co flintlock rifle probably by Andrew Vernor, the original rifle belonged to John Frie, who was the leader of the Frie's Rebellion, protesting a tax on the number of windows in a man's house.  It is 50 caliber, straight 15/16th inch octagon barrel 40 inches long by Ed Rayl, brass furniture on an AAA maple stock, Premium Siler lock by Chambers, DST,  with a brass side opening patch box engraved 'John Fries Gun' and Vernor's inimitable incised carving. It is traditional in every sense. Photos of the real thing can be found in  Kindig's, "Kentucky rifles in the Golden Age".  

We know that the gun belonged to John Frie because he is identified with his name engraved on the patch box.

This rifle is brand new, never fired. That's unusual for me, I usually shoot everything I make. This is a NICE rifle, make an offer quick, before someone else does.

Something about John Frie must have been effective, the window tax does not persist to this day. They tax everything else but not windows. Interestingly, the window tax concept originated in Holland. Only the wealthy could afford windows, thus the tax. Sounds like 'tax the rich' which has quite a familiar ring right now.

#602- Kurkowski Wolverine in 54 caliber, the very first production muzzleloading rifle to use a 209 primer, made about 1984, only a few produced. Barrel is a Douglas, 54 caliber, rifled 1-48 with 8 thou deep grooves so can use either round ball with patch, short bullet or sabot. Walnut stock, Excellent condition, bore perfect, operating bolt handle is on the right, aluminum ramrod. A real collectable-SOLD

#609- Springfield 1840 Flintlock Musket repro- the last FlintLock musket produced by the US. Used  well into the War Between the States. 69 caliber, smoothbore of course, wonderful lock, throws tremendous sparks. Great plain but exceptionally sturdy walnut with oil finish as were the originals. Brass mountings, U.S. marked.  Bright finish as they were the originally .Shooters should recognize that a flintlock musket like this beauty can be fired faster than a cap lock by several seconds per cycle- it takes less time to prime the flintlock than it does to fish out and place a cap. 

#592- Jaeger flintlock rifle as made by Pistor, one of the suppliers for the German Hessian mercernaries hired by George V for the American War. This repro sports a plain walnut stock (as were the originals) but with great grain running through the wrist, a Best Quality 36 inch swamped barrel in 54 caliber by Rayl, a Best Quality Germanic flintlock by L&R, double leaf rear sight, brass furniture cast from molds made from original parts by The Rifle Shoppe, it will have sling swivels but no bayonet lug, (The originals came to America without them). The wooden patch box slides and latches as did the originals. Thee is sparse carving and engraving. This rifle is about as traditional as they come  except that most of the original line guns had a single trigger. This one is obviously made special for a sergeant or officer as it comes with a DST, the barrel is a little longer than usual and the caliber a custom 54 rather than the standard 62. This rifle FEELS wonderful!  It holds offhand like it is built into my shoulder yet is straight enough to comfortably get behind while sniping over the English trenches at those cussed Yankees and their long rifles 'fore Yorktown. Still available, unfired (but not for long). 

Patch box cover is matching walnut, latches to the rear and functions just fine. Pull is 14" from the front trigger. The ramrod is traditional iron and features a swell on the muzzle end with a bit of a cup for loading round ball. Iron ramrods are a touch heavy but they sure don't break.

All the screws and bolts are fire blued. The ramrod is bright, as were the originals. The rear sight is two leaf for 100 yard and 200 yard shooting.

The Hessian Jaegers were greatly respected by the American troops who faced them. They usually functioned as scirmishers and scouts, with sniping duties when entrenched. They proved to be deadly at Yorktown, an easy match for the American longriflemen.

#571 English Percussion 12 Bore (73 caliber) Sporting Rifle for Big Game, Classic English styling with English Walnut stock, Tapered Octagon to Round barrel by Rayl, slow twist for high velocity round ball, single trigger, folding double leaf rear sight, super-strong Manton style breeching with traditional leaf spring percussion lock and barrel drip bar, can use a musket cap for sure fire on dangerous game, 2" wide buttplate to distribute recoil, two keys, ebony fore-end, weight about 10 lbs. There is early style checkering at the grip, front sight is soldered in place for stregnth. Barrel is browned, furniture is blued. So far un-fired but I'm aching to take it to the range and try it out. Amazingly, for a heavy rifle, it mounts to the shoulder and swings like a high grade shotgun. Balance is excellent. For the adventurous hunter. SOLD.

Please notice the massive yet handsome amount of steel surrounding the nipple. It is strong beyond belief. By far the best, handsomest and most ergonomic arrangement ever designed for a percussion gun. Every feature here bespeaks quality. If you shoot its 580 grain ball at 1800 fps, you will get 4200 ft lbs of energy at the muzzle. The TKO with that load is 109 where the TKO of a .375 H&H magnum is 51 and an '06 with 180 bullet is 21+. It is obviously meant for the bigger of Big Game.

#569- Golden Age 50 cal Lancaster school flintlock rifle done in the late P Gonter style, with lovely fancy AAA maple fullstock, brass furniture, Premuim Siler lock by Chambers, DST, 38 inch long swamped barrel in 50 caliber with round bottom rifling by Green Mountain.   SOLD

The patchbox is  polished and engraved and the raised carving is done in the classic Lancaster School tradition. There is a photo workup of this rifle in Kindig's big book on the Ky. Rifle in its Golden Age

#578- Melchoir Fordney over the log rifle, Green River Rifleworks barrel in 58 caliber 1 1/4 " diameter, 40 " long, Egg lock, DST. AAA maple stock with classic Fordney brass furniture and decoration. He was a master, killed with an axe by a crazy at the apogee of his career. His engraving is deep and original; his incise carving absolutely unique! 

You can see that the barrel is big and thick, 1 1/4 inches diameter and 40 inches long. The gun weighs about 14 lbs but holds over a log like it is staked down. It should be very accurate.

What a priviledge it is to attempt to reproduce such a beautiful rifle. I have an inkling that Fordney's touch was a mite better than mine (I measure mites in miles) after all he originated the design. I take great pleasure in sitting at his side, being a part of his heritage. It's a humbling experience to try to match his expertice, makes one realize his shortcomings.

460- Doc-built Pauley style half stock sporting rifle in 504 caliber, utilizing a Doc-designed White M97 action and fast-twist barrel. Like all Pauley's, this one has a false sidelock with false hammer, action is in-line with White nipple-breechplug, Barrel is true White 504 caliber with 1-24 twist and is in perfect condition, and is  accurized. I won a stand up match with it not along ago, takes down with a single fore-arm key and an under-belly screw, has a hooked breech so comes out of the stock easily, Also has a long tang so tall Vernier rear sight fits on metal, not wood. Front sight is Lyman hooded with inserts, Hickory ramrod with brass ends tapped for accessories. Laminate stock, finished a deep reddish brown to mimic the old time English style and color. Inch thick recoil pad. Many English rifles of the period had leather covered recoil pads, this is as close as I could get. The safety, which locks the hammer, is on the lock plate. It's sparsley engraved and finished with Black Ice Teflon so will be great in wet weather. It's the perfect rifle for the traditionalist minded who also wants the best of modern technology.  

Note the case hardened safety behind the false hammer. It holds the hammer at a high half-cock, to take it off you must cock the hammer first. The single trigger pulls off at about three lbs. The fore-end tip is dark wood resembing the ebony that the original maker might have used. Pull is 14 inches over an inch thick recoil pad. The rifle is exceptionally accurate with light loads  and ball or heavy loads and 460-600 grain bullet.

588- Original single barreled percussion fowler by William Moore, a Birmingham maker. Original 16 gauge, nicely checkered and engraved. Never re-finished. All brown, blue and case hard is gone, has a fine antique patina (that really means fine rust that has been stopped with oil and care), the barrel is relined to 20 ga., and the wood and lock are in very good shape for its age

#562 Plain's rifle, 50 caliber, with a new Green River Rifleworks barrel 32 inches long, never before used. The barrel is fluted on the sides in front of the plain maple halfstock, roughly 15/16th inches wide and one inch deep, almost octagonal but fluted in front of the forestock. The L&R percussion lock with screw out drum and nipple is best quality, fired by double lever double triggers, it  sports an under-rib with two steel ferrules, all the other furniture is German silver, including the ovals around the single fore-stock key. A pewter nose cap caps the forestock. The rifle mounts a traditional style rear sight and silver blade front.

As you can see to the right, the muzzle is not octagon, but has wider flats top and bottom and a milled groove along the side. The groove extends back to the end of the forestock. The rib is fastened on with screws.

#558 J P Beck American Fowler- with a Colerain 50 caliber (28 gauge) barrel 42 inches long, tapered octagon to round, with Premium Siler flintlock by Chambers, and a gorgeous AAAA piece of tiger striped maple. The furniture is all brass, including the front sight. It is set up to shoot ball, but will accomodate shot as well, even using a 28 gauge plastic shot cup if you want, to improve patterns. The barrel is a Colerain, tapered octagon to round, no rear sight. The touch-hole is SunSetted just right at 0.70 for quickest fire. It shows some of Beck's great carving. The original J P Beck gun is illustrated in American Flintlock Fowlers, this one has a little more carving then the original. The metal is browned, the brass polished and the wood stained Lancaster red.  

I proofed the gun at a speed match, running the Lew Wetzel against time, running back and forth between stations. I managed 7 shots in 3 minutes, no record, but did it by loading the powder from my hand and spitting a naked .490 ball down the bore. The target was 25 yards off. I was amazed at the resulting three inch group. With 60 grains powder and a patched ball, the group is even better.

#504- Doc- built 54 caliber antiqued reproduction Leman half-stock plains rifle, cobbled up out of a handful of original parts and some purposefully rusted new ones. Original percussion lock with nipple and drum, single trigger, rust- finished early 8 groove GRRW barrel 30 inches long and one inch across the flats, purposefully rusted and distressed, but the bore is like new. Silver front sight on a brass base. Pewter fore-end tip. Stock looks like the real thing with artificial striping. The maple stock has a 14 1/4 inch pull, has also been distressed, there are lots of scratches, rock marks, tomahawk, hammer and vise marks and maybe a claw and tooth mark or two. Looks like it's had lots of use already. It has already fooled a few people. I was challenged by one shooter who wanted to know what I was doing shooting a dangerous old antique. Another was horrified that I would desecrate a fabulous old rifle. It's been lots of fun and shoots quite well, better than I can hold it. 

#560 Flintlock Fowler- This fowling piece has  28 inch, 20 gauge, side by side barrels in a plain varnish finished walnut stock of classic proportions, locks are flint with a small Russ Hamm on the left and a small Siler on the right. (They match well enough that the difference is hardly discernable.) The touch-holes are 0.070 and sunsetted in the Right Place. Ignition is quick and reliable.The lock panels are tapered to the rear for a smaller grip. There are double triggers, the front firing the right barrel and the rear the left. It sports  a Manton style double hooked breech with removable breech plugs, original real silver trigger guard but iron butt plate, very early English in style, all iron metal browned with screws blued or bright. Very light weight, less than 7 lbs. It is a fine quality, light fowler meant for "Shooting Flying" 

#526- ENGLISH FULLSTOCK FLINT 69 CAL GENTLEMAN'S HUNTING RIFLE. One of the problems with the usual American round ball gun is the very smallness of the caliber. Here is a rifle to solve that problem. The GRRW barrel is 69 caliber with deep rifling and a 1-72 pitch for shooting a 480 grain . 690 round ball. It is 1 1/8th inches in diameter, octagon and 30 inches long. It is secured to the super-figured tiger-stripe English walnut stock with three steel keys, (the stock blank by itself cost more than most modern rifles) The rest of the furniture is steel as well, including a broad checkered buttplate. The wrist is checkered in triple skip-line fashion with a carved brass thumb piece integral. The fore-end is ebony in the English fashion.  The hot sparking Chambers flintlock is English round faced with matching engraved sideplate. The touch-hole is sunsetted properly, and is actuated by a DST with double levers. You can fire it set or unset. The rear sight has two leaves and would normally be sighted at 100 and 200 yards. So far it is unfired. there is a single small ding on the fore-stock where a small piece of the damned curly walnut popped out. I don't know how it happened but it's there. Fixing it would require re-finishing the whole gun so I left it as is. That's what I get for using such curly expensive stuff.

The Double Set Trigger works in any combination you might want. Trigger without set is about 6 lbs., with set is a few oz. The English style trigger guard is generous enough for use with gloves. All the furniture is steel and all of it is browned, with stylish Rococco engraving here and there.

This rifle is meant for some serious hunting. Not only is the wood absolutely gorgeous, the gun itself is absolutely deadly, probably on both ends. But the butt is broad and it weighs close to 10 lbs plus the stock conformation is just excellent, which should reduce felt recoil a bunch. I have another somewhat like it and have used as much as 250 grains FFg Black Powder and a .690 ball and patch for moose, buffalo and big bear. You don't even notice the recoil when 'ol Ephraim is popping his teeth at you.

#559- Southern Mountain Rifle- this is a traditional iron mounted southern mountain 'black rifle', with 40 inch, 15/16th octagon, 54 caliber barrel by Ed Rayl and with slow twist for big hunting loads. The lock is a premium Siler by Chambers with touch-hole sunsetted correctly for fastest ignition. The stock is Ash and plain as a yard of pump water, stained dark as I could get it. All the iron furniture is deep brown. It's only decoration is a fancy forged iron trigger guard and a bannana patch box. Obviously plain, obviously functional, surprisingly light, meant for creeping around in the dark woods, it will be a great hunter, a real killer on whitetail. 

#563- Double Flintlock Fowler in side by side 12 gauge with 30 inch barrels and Colonial screw-in inter-changable chokes. The styling is late flintlock era English with lock panels tapered to the rear and the locks inset into the breech. The flintlocks are late style with double throated cocks and are fine sparkers.  this particular lock has been very dependable through the years, spare parts are readily available. It is fired by double triggers, the front firing the right barrel and the rear the left. The touch-holes are stainless steel, counter-bored from within and  SunSetted in the Right Place for the best of ignition.The buttplate and scroll trigger guard are blued iron, the fore-stock ovals are German silver, there is a single middle top rib with front bead in the classic style and two iron ferrules hold the ramrod. I plan some checkering at the wrist. The furniture and locks are blued, the barrels browned. here is a bit of tasteful engraving here and there. Looks like the weight is about 7 1/2 lbs. Pull to the front trigger is 14.5 inches. I wanted to take it turkey hunting before I sold it but the present buyer made me too good an offer to pass up.

The locks are perfectly opposite each other, with a single long screw holding the two into the stock. The breeches are in the Manton style, with a hook on each barrel, both of which hook into the one piece tang. Taking the barrels off for cleaning is a cinch, just remove the two cross-keys and lift the barrls up and out. Replace them in the opposite manner.

You  can see how the lock panels are tapered to the rear, so your hand can get around the grip better and the thumb reach the cocks (hammers) easier. The walnut is pretty plain, but has good grain characteristics and is light enough to make the gun quite handy. The chokes are super-full on the right and full on the left. Of course, a selection of more open chokes is available. I set it up with the tight chokes for turkey.

#556- Blanket gun- You are looking at a cut down North West gun, cut down in the traditional Plains Indian fashion to hide beneath a blanket. Actually, they were used from horseback as a close in hunting and fighting weapon and served their purpose admirably, as well as any Dragoon pistol. The excellent quality parts come from NorthStarWest, including the 16 inch long 20 gauge barrel and the fat sparking flintlock. All the traditional English London markings are on the barrel and lock, including the sitting fox. The walnut stock has good figure in it. It has a traditional oil finish plastered with tacks and wrist strap. The barrel has been blued just like the originals were, with the lock and trigger guard bright, also like the originals. 

American indians liked their art asymmetrical. No two sides will look the same. Thus the circle in tacks on one side of the grip and the Iriqouis cross on the other. The barrel is shown bright above but has been blued, using traditional slow rust bluing, as shown in the photo below of the left side.

#525- STEEL MOUNTED JAEGER 58 CAL. This walnut stock cost more than most completed rifles, but it sets the rifle off even without any finish. The barrel is a swamped 31 incher by Colerain with proper Germanic sights, the furniture is all steel and has been blued , using the old traditional rust blue method. The blued metal is every bit as authentic as blue, if not more so. The stock is incise carved with Rocco scrolling surrounding a fanciful Griffin behind the cheek- piece, the Griffin's head seen on the right in front of the incised carved wooden patch box, and incised carving extends along the stock to well down the fore-end. It is complete with ramrod and matching figured wooden patch box cover. It will make a terrific hunting rifle to bang around with in the woods or maybe make those demmed Colonist riflemen keep their heads down in the trenches at Yorktown. 

It's hard to see but the stock is plastered with incised carving, from the buttplate to within a foot of the muzzle.. There is carving around the ferrules, the trigger guard, lock mortice on both sides and around the cheek-piece and patch-box cover on both sides.

The barrel is about 60% covered with engraving, there is also the maker's signature in script, and a verse also in ancient script, "Sharp of Eye, Quick of Hand, Let Him who wields me be, To get the Game, Bring the Prise and Keep this Land of Liberty". There is Baroque-Rococco scrolled engraving at the breech on three flats, surrounding both the rear and front sights on three flats and bordering the signature and verse,

There is a Griffon behind the cheekpiece (a mythical beast half lion and half dragon) with the Lion's face on the right in front of the Patch Box cover. The Lion Face motif is repeated on the butt plate return, surrounded by transitional Baroque-Rococco engraving.. 

The wrist medallion is an elegant wax casting, fastened on with a bolt coming from underneath, the lock is engraved with the Maker's name and scrolling, the trigger guard is 75% engraved in the transitional Baroque-Rococco style, matching the barrel and incised scrolling on the stock. 

I have left the detailed photos above in the white to show the engraving better. Keep in mind the the barrel is browned and the steel furniture is blued. Only the top photo shows the real coloration. The brown, blue and bright of the finished gun is very attractive.

#517- JOHN NOLL 40 CAL FLINT RIFLE, an accurate reproduction of the Noll rifle on page 242 of Kindig's big book on the Kentucky Rifle in its Golden Age, with  light swamped barrel by Colerain with round bottomed rifling, 44 inches long, Doc's signature in script on the top barrel flat, surrounded by elegant scrolling. AA maple fullstock, stained reddish brown and finished with oil, with Noll's  elegant rococco scrolling and cross hatched stock carving. Siler flintlock accuated by an antique original single lever Double Set Trigger, (you don't have to cock the trigger to cock the hammer), German silver patch box with grouse and silver furniture with Noll's classic elegant engraving  (it's quite a challenge). Noll was one of the great masters and its a privilege to reproduce his work. Every part of this rifle is period and maker correct, except perhaps the SunSetted touch-hole. 

#424- German silver furniture sets off this light American style flintlock fowler, barrel is by Colerain in 20 gauge, tapered octagon to round and 42 inches long, English round faced super quality flintlock, (drips sparks). Late English/American style German silver furniture, AA maple stock with deep English red finish to set off the silver metal. German silver turtle on wrist.

# 529  LIGHT 45 CAL BELT PISTOL, so called because of the belt clip,  45 caliber with a figured walnut stock with grain running wonderfully around and down thru the wrist. It sports a GRRW pistol barrel 6 inches long 13/16th diameter with 1-20 twist and deep rifling for round ball. The flintlock is a small Manton with touch-hole  properly placed in the  SunSet position. Trigger is single. There is an ebony fore-end tip. Furniture is all iron and classic English. There is only a front sight, obviously made to be used just outside the reach of the other guy's knife. There is a simple pin holding the barrel in place. There is a tapered hickory ramrod. This is a traditional defense weapon, very useful for the frontier persona. 

#527- ENGLISH 58 CAL FULLSTOCK GENTLEMAN'S LONG RIFLE This gun looks much like an English fowler but is in fact a 58 caliber rifle with Colerain tapered octagon-round barrel 44 inches long. The lock is a Chamber's English round faced fowler, actuated by an elegant single set trigger that must be set to fire the rifle, the touch-hole is a stainless insert in the correct Sunset location. The rear sight is single leafed. Both the trigger guard and side plate sport chisled scenes. The wrist is delightfully checkered in the early fashion. All furniture is brass including a chisled thumb-piece. The stock is high grade walnut and buttstock shows some especially fine figure. I took it to a shoot at Price, UT , fired it enuff to sight it in, it is an impressive rifle. The Single Set Trigger and lock combination are ZAP fast. The front sight required a single adjustment with file to get it sighted in (on the first target). I didn't win much (it was a blanket shoot) but I was keeping up with the other shooters and their peep sighted percussion guns,

Although the photos don't show it well, the brass sideplate and thumb-piece are chisled, the sideplate with a hunting scene. The trigger guard is beautifully engraved as it the top return on the buttplate. This rifle really holds nicely. It's  a great offhand shooter.

#524- NORTH CAROLINA FLINT 54 CAL RIFLE. This flintlock rifle is a reproduction of the fine North Carolina rifle that Walt Guzzler owns and is so proud of. It was on the cover of Muzzle Blasts in Jan '05. The swamped Colerain barrel on this one is 54 caliber, with round bottomed rifling, but that's so you can shoot it. Somehow I don't think Walt shoots his. The stock is a gorgeous chunk of figured walnut, all the furniture is brass, there is a DST, with  stainless touch-hole in the Right Place, the lock is one of Davis' fine quality Germanic copies. The proper side opening patch box is fitted with proper latch on the buttplate. The patchbox does not have any engraving, neither does the original, as the original was probably pretty early. 

Walt claims that the original probably came from the Salem or Bethebara gunshop. The earliest smith was there in the 1750's, but who knows when the original was made. 

The raised carvingThere is more raised carving around the tang and lock mortices, all of it following the original pattern.

The drop of the buttstock is perfect for offhand shooting. Pull is 14 inches, balance is excellent with weight in the 8 lb. range.

#532 Sharps model 74 by Shiloh in 45-110. Bore perfect, DST, Axtell rear vernier sight worth $300 alone, Globe front, includes a dozen cartridges, previous owner says he shot it fewer than 20 times. It has  a few scratches on the right side of the buttstock from standing in a closet

#507 English Sporting rifle, 577 caliber for Minie ball or slip-fit bullet in 1 1/8th inch diameter octagon barrel, three groove rifling just like the originals, all steel mounts, steel under-rib with steel thimbles, English steel broad shotgun style buttplate, (no cheek-peice and VERY comfortable even with big loads), Browning single set trigger that fires set or un-set (with a much heavier pull), slotted adjustable elevation long bar rear sight, silver front sight on brass base, English bar-in-wood lock with flat spring supporting tremendously strong Manton style percussion breech with long tang, (for Vernier tall rear peep if you want), plain but strong fine-grained walnut stock with pistol grip held to the barrel with two steel keys in silver ovals. Browned metal throughout, iron tipped ramrod drilled and tapped for 8 X 32 fittings. As traditional as they come. 

#547 Classic GR-Series Sporting Rifle in .504 caliber.  August- The stock grew on a grey laminate tree, is stained English Red . The barrel is by White, round and tapered, 1 1/10th inches at the breech, in .504 caliber with 1-24 twist for White Slip Fit and Saboted bullets. The action is Classic English with heavy Manton style bolster  for the nipple, leaf spring actuated Henry side lock and external hammer. There is a single trigger, a rubber recoil pad meant to mimic the English leather covered pads of yesterday, a single fore-stock cross-bolt held in place by German silver roundels  and under-rib with two ferrules for the ramrod.

#528  HEAVY 54 CAL BELT PISTOL, so called because it has a belt clips,  54 caliber with a plain maple stock   GRRW pistol barrel 8 inches long, one inch across the flats, with 1-20 twist and deep rifling for round ball. The flintlock  is an Egg,  properly placed with Sunsett touchhole.  This is a sturdy, heavy caliber  belt pistol meant for daily use. 

#405- Mississippi Rifle by Euroarms, #27xxx, 54 caliber for round ball.  The barrel brown is slick and smooth, the furniture is precisely fitted, the lock is smooth as butter, the walnut is dark, excellent color and very solid, close grained stuff. The overall appearance is excellent. Best yet, the bore is in excellent condition and it shoots a patched round ball very well. 

#508 Doc-built Dimmick St Louis Plains style rifle but for .450 slip-fit White/Whitworth style elongated bullet, Douglas octagon barrel one inch in diameter signed G B WHITE on top barrel flat.  .451 caliber with 1-20 twist and shallow .035 grooves,  uses White PowerPunch .450 slip fit bullets (other brands work well, too, as long as they are sized at .450 and weigh at least 400 grains.  plain but strong walnut stock in classic configuration.

#430-Lighter weight Leman reproduction by DOC, with 15/16 octagon GreenRiverRifleWorks barrel in 45 caliber