#689- Doc built repro of early wide-butted Lehigh Valley rifle in the style of Peter Neihardt.  The barrel is a swamped 'B' weight Colerain in 50 caliber, 44" long. The maple is tigered from one end to the other. The flintlock is a Chambers. single trigger, domed side opening patchbox, sports extensive carving, traditional in this style rifle.  

The buttplate is 2 inches wide not including the built in lip for the patch box.  The trigger guard is early classic Lehigh, wide and just fitting a single curled trigger. The sideplate has that classic arrow at  its rear end, almost a signature of a Lehigh rifle. There is a  considerable amount of carving and engraving. The early Lehigh guns tended to be plainer than the later ones. This an exception to the rule.

Some of the pics were taken before , and some after, engraving. The cheek-piece decorations above are not yet  engraved. The engraving is shown below. Same with the patch box cover, above. Engraved, below.

The incised carving is found on a famous Neihardt rifle illustrated in Kindig's big book on Kentucky rifles in their golden age. The trigger guard is classic Lehigh.

Lehigh makers often used an arrow-like configuration at the rear of their sidelock plates. Here the side opening patchbox is open.  Note the lip on the buttplate. The lid is spring loaded and pops open when you twitch the button on the butt.

This is an outstanding, beautiful rifle. It will enhance anyone's shooting and draw attention like flies to honey.

Andrew Vernor flintlock rifle with Green Mountain 50 cal 7/8ths octagon barrel, with classic Vernor incised carving, side opening patchbox and engraving.  Vernor did a lot of incised carving and was very imaginative in how he applied it. This rifle sports some of his early designs.  

This rifle has morphed into a repro of the famous rifle once owned by John Fries, the leader of Fries Rebellion, which protested a tax on windows. Sort of tax the rich. Sounds modern. The rifle is finished, carved and engraved and is ready to shoot. The incised carving is shown below:

The  flintlock is a Chambers, sports excellent sparks, Double Set trigger fires set or unset as it should. The touch-hole is sun-setted just right with a stainless liner. The combination is very fast. 

The patchbox sports some light engraving and 'John Fries Gun' in script as did the original. He must have been proud of it. 

#657-J P Beck flintlock, reproduction of classic Beck Rifle, very slim and light. Barrel is a 50 caliber 44 " swamped 'C' size Colerain, flintlock is by Chambers, Maple is AA. The carving is done and engraving are done.   There is a wooden patch box cover with latch on the buttplate. It is exceptionally light and handy. I love Beck's work, it's a real pleasure to have him as a mentor.

 The nice figure in the wood doesn't show in these photos. Photography was never my strong suite. The rifle is long but handles supremely well. Balance for offhand shooting is perfect. The single trigger has a three lb. let-off. 

The lock has been antique hot rust blued and the ramrod finished in the same manner as the stock.. 

This is the quintessential Beck flintlock. It is famous for its simple beauty. It is pictured in many books on the longrifle, Kindig among them.

The wooden patch box cover opens by lifting the lath on the buttplate and sliding the cover aft. The wrist medallion, or thumbpeice, is not engraved. Usually it was eventually engraved with the buyer's initials.

This will give you an idea of what the finished rifle looks like. The carving includes matching designs at the tang and behind the rear ferrule.  This  is a copy of one of Beck's plainer rifles. but it is a classic.

#663- Over-Under percussion double 20 gauge (on top), 50 caliber (bottom) rifle for round ball, tough but plain maple stock, original back action locks, double triggers in scroll guard, upper barrel rib with folding low rear sight, patent breech, rubber recoil pad meant to mimic an early leather covered pad, otherwise all iron mountings, regulated so ball from either barrel will center at 50 yards with same 90 grain powder charge. 

There is a ramrod on both sides, one with a 20 bore cleaning jag, the other with a 50 caliber jag. The front sight is a red fiber- optik for fast acquisition on close targets- like a Tom's head.  This versatile rifle- shotgun is usable with up to 1 1/2 oz. shot over 90 gr FFFg black powder in the 20 gauge smooth barrel, and a .490-.495 round ball and patch over 90 grains fffG in the rifle. Should be  a very versitle rifle -shotgun. So it proved to be on two turkeys Spring 2012, 35 yard shots with easy kills.

The hammers do not have a half cock- (half cock is not a safety anyway)- it is safer to carry the gun without a cap on the nipple until ready to fire, a perfect set-up for turkey, then if you have to, carry the double hand-controlled with hammers down on caps on nipples, ready to fire, once game is in sight.

You can see the Colonial brand interchangable screw-in choke installed in the upper 20 gauge barrel (right)- use open or cylander  bore tube with .595 or .600 patched  ball, use super full choke tube for tight patterns on turkey. Both chokes come with the gun. Very British in style. POR

The percussion hammers and percussion nipples have been fitted to massive steel block bolsters, with blow-out/clean-out screws on each side. The rear upper barrel rib sports a folding back sight, the front sight is red fiber-optic.the  The barrels are  regulated to hit together at 50 yards and there are double ramrod ferrules on both sides, the fore-stock is secured to the barrel by a screw-lock.  There is a ramrod on each side, one for rifle, the other for shotgun. The triangular blocks fitted to the front of the patent breech are there, along with a hooked breech, so that the barrels lift easily out of the stock.. The wood is plin, hard maple, stained dark with hot  Aqua Fortis and  oil finished.

The pull is 14 1/2 inches to the front trigger, barrels are 28 inches long, the right/front trigger and hammer fires the top 20 gauge barrel, the left/rear trigger and hammer fires the bottom 50 caliber rifle barrel.

#696-Repro of  Lancaster style rifle by Peter Gonter, 50 caliber with a 'C' size Colerain octagon, swamped 38 inch barrel. Chambers best flintlock, single trigger, as were all Gonters. Pull is near 13 3/4 inches, beautifully carved and engraved in traditional style. The rifle is fitted up and ready to shoot.  The AAA maple is gorgeous.  

755- an unusual find. A Green River Rifle Works Leman Trade Rifle in 54 caliber, built 1976-ish by Bill McKay and marked with his cipher at the breech. Excellent condition throughout, very accurate, I shot it at the recent 2012 RMNR ,  see the photos of the RMNR in 'Doc's Latest Adventure'.   

I  designed the GRRW Leman Trade Rifle in 1972 when we opened GRRW for business. It was the first model that GRRW produced. It was meant to approximate the heavier half stock plains rifle that Leman produced in many variations for use in the West. There were about 1700 of them made during the 8 years of GRRW's life. Most had single triggers, but many were customized with a DST, as is the example above. They are right hard to find, most of them having fallen into strong hands, folks who keep them forever. 

The maple is AAA, the brass is aged, but the brown and stock finish are in excellent shape. The bore is likewise excellent, after a thorough cleaning showed that what I originally thought was rust turned out to be just dust and debris. The barrel is a 7 groove GRRW in 54 caliber. It' went to the 2012Bridger Rendezvous with me for exercise on the shooting line. I shot a load with a cast 490 round ball in a ticking patch over 70 grains Goex FFFg black powder. I shot a 92/100 for a fourth place, bested by two 93's and a 95, with the sun at my back. I could see the sights really well. This got me all exited. The afternoon shoot put the sun to my left,. My old eyes could not see the sights at all, my shooting went to Hell. 

#686 - Doc built lightweight Sporting Rifle in 451 caliber with 1-20 twist, shallow  .035 grooves for White/Whitworth elongated, multi-channelured slip-fit bullets, same as the modern in-line White 451 rifles shoot.. Barrel is 7/8th inch octagon, 30 inches long with Manton Breech and drip bar so typical of English Sporting-Target rifles. Good looking walnut, all steel furniture except the silver key surrounds. Barrel is browned, all other steel antique blued.  Weighs 7 lbs., just right for a sheep hunt

A good load is going to be 70 grains equivalent Black Powder and a 460 grain White multi-channelured .450 slip-fit bullet, which duplicates a full 45-70 load at about 1200 FPS. There were lots of big animals killed with that load back in the old days.

The Manton style Breech-block with drip-bar is a massive chunk of steel, far and away the strongest percussion system ever developed. The drip bar replaces the thin, weak wood that normally lies just above the forward end of the lock-plate.

A single key with German silver surrounds holds the barrel to the stock, the rear sight is a semi-miltary ladder type with elevation out to 700 yards with  the 1200 FPS 45/70-like load quoted above.

#687- Here is a Doc-built Ausbruck Military Jaeger in the original 62 caliber, the model that was brought over by the Hessians during the American Revolution. The barrel is 28.5 inches long and swamped, by Colerain. The lock is the traditional German design, all the brass furniture is copied from an original and construction details are original as well. It will be the perfect rifle for your Hessian persona, marvelously effective in the trenches at Yorktown, even more effective here as the twist in this barrel  is far slower than the fast twist used by the Austrian makers originally. It will be accurate with larger loads than originally used. Should make a great hunting rifle.

The wrist medallion is a true copy of an original military medallion, as is all the furniture. The rear sight has two leaves for, 100 and 200 yard shooting. 

The wooden patch box cover unlocks with a button at the butt end of the patchbox. The muzzle photo above does not show the front sling swivel while the full length photo up top does. The sling swivel is attached to the barrel for strength. Same with the sling button on the butt stock in the middle photo above- you can see it in the top photo. Note the brass end on the IRON ramrod, as original. The rifle is  ready to shoot. The originals mostly had single triggers for the bigger part but his one has a DST. Must have been special ordered by an officer or sergeant. It should be a great hunting rifle. Jaeger does mean 'hunter' and German military rifles, as well the English who later copied the Germans, started out as hunting rifles imported into military service. .

The trumpet shape of the pipes eases ramrod entry when hurried. 

The screws will end up fire blued as always, that ugly Phillips head screw on the rear of the trigger guard will get traded off for a proper one. Sometimes I get too excited about getting photos on the website and little details escape me. They are always corrected on delivery. 

Finish on the walnut is plain deep soaked military oil, the lock is antique rust blued and the barrel browned with the brass polished military bright. This rifle is as plain as a yard of pumpwater, but it is elegantly functional. It makes up  for what it lacks in decoration with the way it handles.  

#743-  Classic NorthWest gun, flintlock,  in 20 bore with walnut fullstock, trade lock  and dragon sideplate. The barrel is by Colerain, smoothbore, of course, octagon to round, 32 inches long, with stainless counterbored touch-hole in the correct sunset position. The lock is L&R's big trade lock. The sparks are fantastic, the turkey is dead when the trigger trips. It is very fast. 

This one is meant for hunting turkey, so metal is browned rather than bright. It has a Colonial brand removable full choke installed. If you want to shoot ball at a whitetail, then change the choke tube to a cylander bore tube. Both tubes come with the gun. This gun accounted for 3 Toms in April of 2012

The buttplate is brass, the trigger guard iron, just as in the originals. The lock is a large English Trade Lock, again, very traditional.  The sideplate is a cast brass dragon typical of the genre.

The screws were eventually  blued. This gun went turkey hunting with me  this year. (2012) I used 90 grains FFFg, 2 fiber over powder wads, a tapered plastic shotcup filled with 1 1/2 oz. of Italian #7 nickel plated shot then a card top wad. It was a fantastic load, all three birds instantly down. 

There are 2 forward ferrules for ramrod and a silver oblong with chief's head at the wrist. The traditional oversize trigger is mounted in the wood. Screws hold the buttplate and trigger guard. 

The gun is light and handy. No wonder the Indians and frontiersmen loved it.

659- Baker Ordnance Carbine with a round tapered Colerain barrel in 62 caliber with separate hooked breech and tang, 33 inches long, a mix of brass Baker and Long Land pattern carbine furniture and a  flat faced Baker flintlock. It is  pictured in 'British Military Flintlock Rifles.' A very interesting traditional variation on the Baker theme. Only a few were made originally.

The photo above shows the socket bayonet in place. The angle of the photo makes the bayonet look crooked on the barrel but it is not. The socket fits around the front sight and locks on with a dogleg sort of arrangement.  The rear sight is a double bladed folder for 100 and 200 yard shooting, the front an iron combination sight and bayonet lug. The bayonet is polished bright. The Baker Infantry Rifle used a sword bayonet with big lug on the right side of the muzzle. This is an attempt by British Ordnance to standardize bayonet types and sizes. This bayonet also fits the Officers Musket.

The rifle above shows the brass nose cap and front sling swivel, the rear sling swivel is found at the front of the trigger guard on some models and on the buttstock on others. Evidently, both locations were tried. I  decided where to put it on the buttstock this rifle as the trigger guard is awfully thin where the swivel screw is supposed to fit, so it got a rear button, Jaeger fashion. The Baker line is obviously descended from the Jaeger, so a rear button fits right in.

The rifle is shootable now,  I really like the fit and feel of this military 'carbine'. It handles beautifully, should make a great hunter as well as serve with His Majesty's troops in any Light Infantry/Rfleman unit in any part of the Empire from Waterloo on. The heavy caliber has become my favorite for big game, which goes down suddenly with a good hit. Few elk run off wounded when smacked by this big 62 caliber. 

The photo below shows the left side of the rifle, taken before the rear swivel button was installed. Note that the front swivel is attached to the front barrel lug for strength and sturdiness..

The Ordnance Carbine came along later than the Baker (then called just 'the Infantry Rifle). It was designed with a Long Land pattern stock, much like the Brown Bess, but used a mix of brass furniture that resembled the original Baker and the Long Land muskets in various ways. The lock was a flat faced Baker, the side-plate similar to the Long Land pattern but fancier, the trigger guard looked like a Baker but fitted closer to the wrist, and the trigger and plate were Baker all the way, as was the nose-cap. The trumpet shaped  ramrod pipes resemble the Baker but there were three rather than just two. The double tapered ramrod was brass tipped iron with not just the Baker's forward bulge that kept it from rattling in the pipes but a double bulge for the same reason. The big Baker bayonet lug for the sword bayonet was omitted and the rifle was fitted with a front sight that acted as a bayonet lug for an ordinary Officer's Musket socket bayonet. There is no patch box. The front under-barrel key is also omitted, the sling swivel screw also acting as a barrel keeper. The original Baker rifle had both. Obviously, this was an attempt to cut costs. It appears the effort was not successful. as only a few of these exist. 

#594 English Heavy 8 Bore (83 cal) Sporting Rifle  by DOC, tapered octagon to round barrel by Rayl 36 inches long, slow twist and deep grooves  for patched round ball, heavy figured walnut especially selected for strength of grain through wrist, checkered wrist, broad iron buttplate, English butt with low cheekpiece, Henry percussion flat spring lock with drip bar, single trigger, double ramrod ferrules on iron under-rib, 2 leaf rear sight, all iron furniture, weight about 12 lbs. Meant for Big Stuff.

The barrel is keyed with double German silver roundels and flat keys. The ebony fore-end tip complements the half stock., the ramrod is 7/16th inches diameter with a brass end threaded to fit jags and such,  the rear sight sight has a folding double leaf, the lock is the traditional flat spring Henry style lock with drip bar, the trigger is single with a 4-5 lb. pull and trigger guard and buttplate are classic English. . Boy, is that walnut hard and dense. This will be a great rifle for that occasional tiger and gaur encountered on a stroll with the Raj in India, 1870. The ball weighs near 2 oz., falls only 2 inches at 100 yards with a 270 grain charge of FFg black powder.

As usual on these heavy guns, there is a "blow-out plug", really a pressure relief valve,  in the massive Manton style breech. The opening appears quite large but tapers to .035 thousandths inside. Forsyth, who traveled and hunted India in the 1870's, writes about using 10 drams of 'fine' powder, which in modern equivalents is 275 grains, and mentions that recoil was not excessive. Well, maybe not on an elephant or tiger, when the adreneline is running high, but I'll bet he didn't shoot target with it.. 

The buttplate is 2 1/4" wide to soak up recoil. The front sight is sweated on, it will be shaped by the buyer to fit his eye. The single sidelock bolt is classically simple, very understated English.

This rifle was sold  'in the white', that means polished to 600 grit on the metal with a bead blaster and to 220 on the wood. The buyer will do the final finish work, with usually a browned barrel and blued or cased  breech fittings, trigger guard, buttplate and oil/varnish finish on the wood.etc. . I would anticipate that this big gun will eventually end up engraved and checkered and hopefully used as it once would have been, as a superb weapon for truly heavy game. Bill Large once told me that with a caliber this big, you could let the bear run up the bore, trap him in there with a thumb and have him right where you wanted him. 

708 - Jaeger Percussion Conversion, New World made with unusual AAAA tigered maple stock, 31" Rice swamped barrel with round groove rifling in 50 caliber, lock has been percussed by removing the frizzen and frizzen spring and cutting the pan for a screw-in drum and nipple.  Furniture is all brass with thumbnail decorations on most pieces, adjustable rear sight, DST, 7/16th" wood ramrod and contrasting walnut patch box cover. Engraved and carved lightly. This is going to be my Target /Rendezvous rifle for summer 2011. 

The maple stock is tightly tiger striped and is quite elegant. All the iron is browned. The rifle can be easily converted to flintlock and if you want, be shootable as either flint or percussion, your choice of the day, with separate locks for the two functions..

European Baroque incised carving decorates the rifle, lightly done, at least in comparison to some Jaeger rifles.

The lock has been percussed. Really, I purchased it that way. Looks authentic. The sideplate needs a stand of arms engraved on it. I'll get to that over the summer.

The DST works very nicely.  It's not crowded at all in that Jaeger trigger guard. Note that the finials of the trigger guard and the rear thimble match. I sighted in the rifle and ran the gongs at the annual 'Stone Cliff' Rendezvous near Cedar City UT, in April 2011. The Rice barrel is really impressive- very, very accurate with 60 grains fffG Swiss and .490 ball with 20 thou patch. It shot exactly to where I held it, so much so that I could call the hits with the trip of the trigger. Trouble was that we had a gusty wind to put up with and I wasn't holding the rifle all that well. At least I knew that I missed when the trigger tripped.

#618- Snaphaunce Lemon Butt 20 bore smoothbore pistol, just the thing for your 1600's persona. Miles Standish probably carried one. (or two)  

Now at full cock, with frizzen down in ready to fire position, pan cover is closed.  The amazing thing is how well it points. All iron parts are browned. The stock is oil finished. The snaphaunce is not a primitive lock but is rather sophisticated. It has the advantage of having a separate pan cover, which means you can cock the pistol, keep the pan cover closed, but throw the frizzen forward off the pan, rendering the pistol safe. Some snaphaunces have trigger safeties. This one does not.

Above left: closeup of lock, showing the cock in fired position, pan cover open and frizzen thrown back. The sear of the lock is horizontal, with the trigger pinned above the sear, exactly the same as with wheel-locks and crossbows. Above right: the forged iron rigger guard and incised carved detail on the Lemon Butt

Hammer shown down, fired, frizzen thrown back, pan cover is open. Sidelock screws are fire blued. There is a little incised carving on the lemon butt, otherwise the pistol is pretty plain.

The barrel is a lustrous deep brown while the lock, tang, trigger and trigger guard are a deep hot blue. The walnut has been finished with penetrating oil under varnish. The wood is not very lovely but it is strong and close grained.

The vernier rear sight is tall enough for 1000 yard shooting. It folds out of the way, either forward or backward. It was made by Pedersoli and adjusts in all directions. The single Set trigger will fire the rifle with a 4 lb. pull if not set, it can be adjusted down to an ounce if set. 

All screws are fire blued, 

#622  Bridger style half stock Hawken rifle in 69 caliber, beautiful 1 1/8 X 1" , 36" long taper barrel by Rayl, best quality parts, plainer AA maple stock purposefully selected with grain running through the wrist for strength, traditional double bolted long tang and long bar DST, double fore-end keys, as well as strictly traditional Hawken breeching and lock. Side opener iron patch box, German silver trim. Long bar Hawken rear adjustable sight. The rifle is complete  and ready to shoot. Very handsome, modeled on the Bridger Hawken rifle that GRRW had here in town for a few years back in the 1970's.  SOLD

Please see my article on original Hawken rifles and reproductions "The Truly Traditional Hawken"  under 'Doc's Ramblings', to the upper left, so you understand just how traditional these reproductions are, or aren't. I find there is a lot of poor information out there in the Western Fur Trade world that needs straightening out. Also, there are some things the modern worker just can't do. Best discover what they are before you lay down cash on a 'traditional' rifle.

Jim Bridger style lock, elegant hammer, long tang with two screws through to the long bar DST, all traditional Hawken.

The patch Box cover is spring loaded, move the latch and it pops open. The DST fires set or unset and can be adjusted for pull.

Two iron keys hold the barrel to the stock with German Silovr surrounds. The rear thimble and muzzle cap are both iron, antique rust blued, as are all the iron  parts, except the patchbox, which is fire blued.

69 caliber sounds big, but it sure takes buffler down in a hurry, Old Ephraim, too! I've been thankful for big calibers a time or two!.

#662- 4 bore flintlock shotgun with tapered octagon-round barrel by Rayl, lovely walnut with grain just right through the wrist, English Trade flintlock, all steel furniture, weight will come out near 12 lbs. Meant to shoot 2-4 oz. shot or a 4 oz. ball, which is what Selous did in Africa on elephant. He had one very much like this in his early years. He carried a sack of powder on one side and a sack of balls on the other, most shots at 15 yards or so. He writes of loading powder by the fistful.

There is a brass tipped 7/16" ramrod. The fore-end is Ebony.  The barrel is browned  with tang, lock and furniture antique rust blued.  There are two keys with G. Silver roundels, and a semi-baroque thumb-piece which was still popular for limited decoration even in the late flintlock period. That buttplate is 2 1/4 inches wide, good for soaking up recoil. Oops, forgot the trigger for the photos.

There is a hooked breech for easy barrel removal and stainless lined touch-hole. It holds surprisingly well. Might look clumsy, but it's not. The buttplate, screws and keys need to be antique rust blued and the ivory front sight installed. Oddly enouigh, the trickiest thing on the whole gun to do right is get the front sight into the right place.

You can see a bit of engraving on the tang, barrel rear, sidelock piece and lock, along with the makers name.

#684-  Southern (Tennessee) Mountain rifle. Ultra slim Ash stock with all iron furniture, DST, 13/16" 45 caliber Douglas made Golden Age Arms barrel 40 inches long, small Manton lock, (Southerners liked British imports)  POR  OBO   The sights, pipes and sideplate are all iron, in the Southern Virginia style. I debated about installing a bananna patchbox  vs a grease hole. In the end I did neither. Late Southern Virginia guns were pretty plain, meant for hard use. So is this one. The stock is stained a deep brown with aqua fortis to match the browned iron furniture. No reflection wanted while hunting the deep woods.

Below:  Note the Lollipop tang ,and small Manton lock. This is one of the better locks available on the modern market. Both rear and front sights are iron. This rifle is now at Track of the Wolf. You can see a photo workup of it there. Their photgraphy is just beautiful. Deal with them if you want to buy it SOLD

The grain in the ash stock is quite prominent, more so than the photos show. There is a bit of tiger striping in the fore-stock as well. Pull is 14 inches. Weight less than 8 lbs. The screws will end up fire blued before we are done with the project.

#721 Super  91 in 541 caliber with one-of-a-kind non-standard markings, with Lyman peep mounted on a handsome Gray Laminate stock, previously owned, accurized.  Front sling swivel shifted to rear. A nice rifle

#716 WHITE stainless Whitetail 451 caliber  with Weaver scope mounts, rubber stick-on cheekpeice and fiber-optik sights. 22 inch barrel, Bell & Carlson fiber-composite stock, the best design for the Whitetail DOC ever came up with, double safety system, double ended ramrod with brass cleaning jag, bullet puller, bored for loading pointed bullets,  sling swivels.  

#717 WHITE Super-91-ll with M-70 style safety, DOC's initials on it at the breech showing he had something to do with it, never fired except for accurizing job, as new, with blue 504 barrel and action, Zytel trigger guard and ramrod pipes for light weight, Bell & Carlson fiber composite stock with checkering, ramrod has double brass ends with bullet puller and cleaning jag. A fine, light rifle.  SOLD

#711 Chief's grade NorthWest Gun in 12 bore, stocked in a nice chunk of cherry, with a Colerain octagon to round 12 gauge barrel 32 " long, the lock is a Twigg and is very snappy, the furniture is all brass including a fanciful thumb piece. Decoration is sparse but quality high. Chief's grade NorthWest guns were really nothing more than traditional English or French fowlers, quite well made, with sometimes an Indian motif, like the wrist medallion with Indian head that we are so familiar with. This 12 bore is built in that same tradition. 

12 Bore NorthWest guns are rare. I have only seen two, both in the Virginia City, Mt., museum, together with a couple of skulls with a neat 50 cal hole right between the eyes and a 4 inch hole in the back of the skull. Both were found within yards of each other in the early 1900's. Both NW guns were cut into short pistol-like blanket guns. The shooter was obviously deadly. The warriors must have been peeking over a log when he put them down.

As you can see, the cherry stock is finished cherry, the barrel is browned and the lock is antique rust blued. The medallion shows a gruff grotesque, perhaps a troll, peeking overt the top. Note that the touch-hole is properly sun-setted and measures 70 thousandths, big enough for sure and instant ignition, important on a fowler. The lock is very English, but the buttplate and trigger guard show some French influence. The buttplate is cut down from a Fusil de Chasse design and the trigger guard clearly shows its French provenance. The front sight is a 'turtle' with little legs. I have not polished it. I want it dull for turkey hunting. 

I took this gun on my annual turkey trek in Apr.-May this year.. I try to make at least 3 states during the turkey season and use a new flinter every year. I never take the same gun twice. This gun sports a Colonial screw in-out choke with a .660 bore. I  use 1 7/8ths oz. #7 nickle plated shot over 100 grains FFFg Black powder. That's usually a turkey killing load with tight patterns at 40 yards.  It kicks hard but who feels it when the turkey is strutting out front. It has already proved itself on gobblers in Texas and Utah. If you want to shoot patch and ball, just switch the turkey-tight .660 choke for a choke-bore .730. All the intermediate sizes of chokes are available as well. The gun comes with a .730 choke, a custom .660 turkey killer choke is available at extra cost.  (I have to custom make them)

The only bow to the NorthWest gun tradition is the serpent sideplate, rather highly modified but elegant. The pipes are a common fowling gun style seen throughout Europe and England. The gun is light and handy, weighs 7 1/2 lbs.

#701  Bridger Hawken rifle in 62 caliber with tapered barrel by Rayl, all authentic conformation parts, an almost exact copy of the Bridger rifle that GRRW had here in Roosevelt for several yeas back in the 1970's. The barrel is 36" long, tapered from 1 1/8th at the breech to 1" at the muzzle. Twist is 1-72 and grooves are 12+ thou deep for patched round ball and stout  loads. All the furniture is traditional iron except the German silver roundels surrounding the keys. The rear sight is a long bar adjustable and the front German silver blade on a brass base. The ramrod is a brass tipped 7/16" . SOLD

That's a nice piece of maple with good  but not great AA figure, you can see the stripe best in the left butt below, but selected because of the great grain through the wrist. I have come to love the 62 caliber. It knocks elk and other big stuff down for the count. I expect this to be a terrific hunting rifle. 

The wood is hard , close-grained and tough and did not take the stain really well because of that exemplary feature. 

The barrel is browned, all the other iron furniture is antique rust blued. The barrel is marked S Hawken St. Louis in the original style.  GRRW ID and my own cipher are on the bottom barrel flat.

The roundels are German Silver, the keys and screws are fire blued. The long bar DST and trigger guard are double bolted through the wrist to the tang, in classic Hawken fashion.

Please see my article on original Hawken rifles and reproductions "The Truly Traditional Hawken"  under ' Doc's Ramblings', to the upper left, so you understand just how traditional these reproductions are, or aren't. I find there is a lot of poor information out there in the Western Fur Trade World that needs straightening out. Also, there are some things the modern worker just can't do. Best discover what they are before you lay down cash on a 'traditional' rifle.

#623 Gemmer-Springfield trapdoor rifle in 40-65 caliber built on 1869 black powder only action with new tapered octagon 40-65 barrel by Kelly. AA grade Bridger Hawken style walnut stock with iron furniture and silver trim. You can see that the hammer nose is long to clear the action lever and still hit the firing pin. The action has been left its original case hardened color. The colors have faded with the years but it would be a shame to remove that original finish.  SOLD

After Jake Hawken died of the Cholera and Sam eventually retired, their shop was purchased by Gemmer, who continued making rifles in the Hawken tradition. When cartridge guns came to dominate the frontier, he added  custom rifles, like the reproduction illustrated below, with distinctly Hawken features. There are only a few known. An original will cost you a fortune.

The barrel is browned, the rest of the iron furniture is antique rust blued. The rear sight is a Hawken long bar adjustable sight and the front is a silver blade on a brass base. The fore-end cap is blued iron. Some few of the small parts have been fire-blued. All in all, the effect is very handsome.

The walnut stock has nice color in the butt, with good close tight grain. The stock has been finished with hand rubbed drying oils, just like the originals. Note that many of the features that we call Hawken are really English- copied from the fancy London made English sporting guns that were brought over by English sportsman and which the Hawken brothers  popularized on the western frontier. About the only features that are not English are the deeply curved buttplate and the double set trigger, both of which are distinctly American.

The photo shows classic Hawken conformation: Long bar DST double bolted to long tang,  double fore-stock keys with silver roundels, long decorative adjustable Hawken rear sight, beavertail cheek-peice for right handed shooter, double steel pipes on a soldered  under-rib,the pipes are silver soldered to the rib, the rib is silver-lead soldered to the barrel- ( just like the originals), scroll trigger guard., all with Trapdoor Springfield action added, with hooked breech for easy take-down. The barrel plus action is 36 inches long, the octagon barrel tapers to .950 at the muzzle from 1.10 at the breech, weight is about 9 lbs, pull is 14 inches.

40-65 brass cases are readily available from several sources, as are cast bullets and loading dies. It's a very popular Cowboy long range caliber. And justly so, the combination of a relatively heavy,  long, high BC bullet at moderate velocities with tolerable recoil has proven to be exceptionally accurate and a good killer on even heavy game. Best of all, the relatively light recoil makes shooting long strings a much more comfortable affair.  Since this rifle is made with an original black powder action, it should be fired only with black powder loads. It cannot be trusted with smokeless powder! 

#572- Dutch-German light wheel-lock, 40 caliber, rifled for round ball, all iron mounts and furniture. Functionally elegant and delightful to handle. SOLD

Shown here complete and including combination spanner and powder flask . 

The barrel is a swamped Green Mountain, the wood a nice piece of walnut, not a lot of figure but with beautiful color. The lock is from The Rifle Shoppe, and came as a kit. Its provenance is German, meant for a pistol, but just right for a light caliber rifle. I could not resist the challenge.  Doc's Latest Adventure is featuring it as an ongoing project, with lots of photos and brags as the gun progresses. Click on 'Doc's Latest Adventure' above to follow its progress.

 Weighs in at 7 lbs. Holds really nice offhand.  This is a hard one to let go. It's plain, but very functionally elegant. Rifles like this one were available in Europe as early as 1575.

#417- Here is a real flight of fancy. I always wondered why some old time inventor didn't design a breech loading flintlock that would un-breech with just a quarter turn of the trigger guard, allowing the shooter to roll in an oversize ball followed by a charge of powder, then close the breech with a quarter turn back. So I decided to try it myself. The rifle is a transitional style with swamped Colerain barrel in 54 caliber, meant to use 570 ball or bullet, AA maple fullstock, all iron mountings for strength, semi-military appearance, DST, Baroque/Rococco incised carving. You can always muzzleload it with a 530 ball & patch in the usual fashion if the breech gets locked up. The trigger guard is hooked up and the mechanism is tested and works. (Works best in the rain and wet) It's really fun to HooRah the guys at Rendezvous with this unique rifle. SOLD

714- DOC designed and built double rifle using side by side White Whitetail and White Lightning stainless barreled actions in 504 caliber, cut down to match. The rifle throws the White 600 grain Power Punch slip fit bullet with 120-140 grins Pyrodex-P or 777 fired by musket caps. It is sighted in at 50 yards. The stock is good grade walnut with a thick recoil pad. Triggers are modified Bold. Safeties are in the cocking handles which lock up into a notch for safe. Snap the handle down to fire. 

 The rifle is finished with Brownell's waterproof epoxy varnish inside and out.  The metal finish is green Dura-Coat. This gun has already been to Africa twice. It's great for heavy critters at short range.

#713- NIB WHITE M97 WHITETAIL HUNTER rifle, 504 caliber, 22" barrel, gray laminate stock, Bold trigger, Fiber-Optik sights (rear green, front red), BRAND NEW, NEVER FIRED, includes plastic foam lined original shipping case, instructions  and tools. Rare in this condition. Includes a set of Weaver scope mounts. 

#712- Used WHITE Super-91 with elegant professionally done camo. Condition is excellent, only a few scattered tiny use marks denote its's prior use. It has obviously been well cared for. One owner well known to me for a dedicated gun owner. Sling is included.

#610- Springfield 1835 musket- standard military dimensions and finish, 69 caliber smooth-bore, all top quality parts. This fine gun is now at Track Of The  Wolf. Their photography is wonderful! GoTo trackofthewolf.com, click on 'guns', then 'military guns' and scroll through the pages to find it.  

The barrel came from Colerain, the lock parts and other castings from the Rifle Shoppe, the wood from Dunlap. 

The perfect musket for an early Southern recruit in the first battles of the Civil War. There were many flint muskets used early on and were favored by many. They were faster than a percussion musket simply because you didn't have to fish out and fit a cap to make it fire. Perfect for the Battle of Bull Run on the Southron side. It is really quite inexpensive right now. Call Track and make a deal with them.

#580- DOC-built 451 caliber English Sporting rifle with super fancy walnut halfstock, really an elegant piece of wood. You can see that the breech is a Manton with Drip Bar over the traditional flat spring lock. There is a pistol grip and Alexander Henry forearm. The lock is a Henry design too. The Kelly barrel is tapered octagon 30 inches long in 451 caliber with 1-20 twist and shallow 0.035 thou deep grooves,meant for long lubricated White (or Whitworth) type elongated lubricated bullets. These guns are terrific hunting rifles and are capable of 1000 yard target shooting. All furniture is iron, the buttplate is checkered wood, an English whim of the 1860's. There is an under-rib with two ferrules. The barrel is browned, the other iron furniture blued and the stock varnished English style. Sights are a Globe front and English style adjustable  ladder rear- looks much like the adjustable ladder rear Springfield sight that was so popular from the 1850's on. (Springfield copied it from the original English Sporting-Target rifle sights)  

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Although this is a beautiful rifle, it was designed to be used. It is extremely functional and ergonomic, every part of it friendly to the user.  The butt is thick and wide to soak up recoil, it fits shooters using either hand without alteration, balance is superb for offhand, sights are adjustable and good for up to 700 yards as is.

Look at all the steel surrounding the nipple. It's the strongest system in the world, bar none. The drip bar above the lock just in front of the bolster gets rid of the weak wood above the lock that you see on Hawkins and the like. The rear sight is the spring loaded ladder type with a sliding adjustable notch-on-bar.

The butt-plate is checkered ebony (wood), The trigger guard comes off by removing the two screws than turning the trigger guard off the plate. It takes 5 turns to get it off. The trigger is single and pulls off at 4 lbs.

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The lock is held by a single bolt and the barrel by a single key. The accents are German Silver except for the brass ramrod tip. Weight is about 8 lbs. The rifle throws up to a 520 grain lubricated bullet with terrific accuracy and force. Ballistic Coefficients are up at .300 for fantastic downrange performance. Bullets load slip-fit so second shots are fast yet accurate. These are the best of the traditional muzzleloading rifles.

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! 

#605B- Doc-designed White Super-91 with unfired Blue action and barrel in 504 caliber, Winchester 70 type safety (no secondary safety), laminated stock with 13.5 inch pull over Limb Saver recoil pad, adjustable trigger. steel trigger guard. under-rib with double pipes for ramrod, Delrin ramrod with double brass ends. The stock shows a few chips where the butt was shortened and a new recoil pad installed. This will be a good rifle for the smaller shorter-armed man or maybe even a woman. William's sights not shown but are included. 

#612- English influenced Lancaster style traditional flintlock pistol with fast twist rifled brass barrel by GRRW in 58 caliber. As far as I know, this is the only brass barrel GRRW ever made. AAA maple stock with brass furniture including grotesque mask butt cap. Round faced English flintlock by L&R, single trigger. acorn trigger guard, low rear and front sights done in the traditional manner, a modest amount of Lancasterish carving. The barrel rear is heavily engraved with more engraving on the trigger guard.  

The carving is similar to that seen on Lancaster rifles.  There is a stand of arms engraved on the sideplate.  My signature is found  in script on the top flat of the barrel.

The detail on the pistol is decidedly elegant. Note the low rear sight at the front of the tang.  POR OBO

#658-  Fusil de Chasse in 16 gauge (67 caliber), smoothbore of course. AAA maple which the photos don't show well at all, has fruitwood finish, classic French brass furniture, early classic flintlock without stirrup.  The lock is antique rust blued, the screws  are fire blued (shown still in the white) and the barrel is browned. Your Courier de Bois or Eastern Indian persona will be tickled with it. SOLD

The lovely thing about this gun is that it can be used with a 16 bore ball and patch or a charge of shot, take your pick. It can be expected to groups shots inside a saucer at 50 yards, loaded with a patch. That's good enough for any whitetail from a tree stand. 

The wrist medallion is real silver, engraved with a traditional pattern. Decorations are plain but the lock is a real sparker with a screw-in insert and a .70 thou touch-hole for QUICK ignition.

The French were the leaders in arms design for 200 years, 1600-1800. This model fusil was produced and sold by the tens of thousands all over the world by enterprising French merchants. It is light, handy, loads fast, holds well and is very versatile, beloved by the Indians in the New World for hunting or war.

#625  Doc designed and built in-line Double Rifle, 504 caliber, regulated for 600 grain Slip-Fit bullets, previously owned, has been to Africa twice, has taken the bigger plains game and buffalo. Actions are in-line, very similar to the Doc-designed Whitetail and M97 rifles. Sights are on the money at 50 yards with bullets from both barrels grouping together. Best load is 120 gr PyorodexP with 600 grain White or No Excuse slip-fit bullet.

The ugly green Camo finish is Dura-Coat, a baked on epoxy finish that is absolutely weather proof. The metal underneath is stainless for double protection. Safeties are built into the in-line action. Pull the cocking handles back to full-cock then rotate them up into the safety notches. Knock them down to fire. In the left hand photo (immediately to the left) the left handed cocking handle is in the firing position and the right handed handle is up, locked into the safety position. In the right hand photo, both handles are locked up into the safety position. It uses the musket cap for sure ignition on dangerous game.

The barrels dismount from the stock by removing the 1/4 X 28 screw from the front of the trigger guard extension. There are two sets of recoil logs, both are glass bedded. The triggers come out with the barreled action. Sights are Marble fiber-optik red front and two dot green rear. The recoil pad is an inch thick. Pull is about 14.5 inches to the front trigger and the gun weighs about 10 lbs. It's a great rifle for close-up heavy game taking.

#658-  Fusil de Chasse in 16 gauge (67 caliber), smoothbore of course. AAA maple which the photos don't show well at all, has fruitwood finish, classic French brass furniture, early classic flintlock without stirrup.  The lock is antique rust blued, the screws  are fire blued (shown still in the white) and the barrel is browned. Your Courier de Bois or Eastern Indian persona will be tickled with it. 

The lovely thing about this gun is that it can be used with a 16 bore ball and patch or a charge of shot, take your pick. It can be expected to groups shots inside a saucer at 50 yards, loaded with a patch. That's good enough for any whitetail from a tree stand. 

The wrist medallion is real silver, engraved with a traditional pattern. Decorations are plain but the lock is a real sparker with a screw-in insert and a .70 thou touch-hole for QUICK ignition.

The photo shows the trigger guard file finished , it has been polished since this photo was taken. I run brass through filing, then 80, 150, 220, 350, 400 then 600 paper, then polish with 0000 steel wool. this technique provides the best antique finish. If you want to dull it quick for hunting, rub it briskly with some fresh cut grass. It will go dull overnight.

The French were the leaders in arms design for 200 years, 1600-1800. This model fusil was produced and sold by the tens of thousands all over the world by enterprising French merchants. It is light, handy, loads fast, holds well and is very versatile, beloved by the Indians in the New World for hunting or war.

#671- Early English doglock fowler by Cookson in 12 gauge, ca. 1700 or so. Tapered octagon-round barrel by Colerain, Dutch influenced brass furniture and stock design, nice close grained walnut with a little striping and great grain structure, many early features. This is a great turkey gun, it was designed to be a hunting gun, so has  a Colonial brand  inter-changable thin-wall choke installed, so you can shoot either tight shot patterns or solid ball by changing the choke tube. I like a .690 extra-full for turkey and use a .725 open choke tube for solid ball.  Thought I had it sold but the buyer didn't come through so it's back on the market  SOLD

You're going to get this one used by the way. It went turkey hunting with me in  April and has already tasted blood.  It holds like a trap gun, indeed modeled the drop of the stock off my favorite Winchester 101 Trap. Put the tip of the front sight just under the Tom's chin. 75% first shot patterns with my recommended load of 100 gr. ffg black powder and #7 shot. If you use a .660 choke, which I can supply you with, you can get 85-90% pattterns.

The 'dog' or safety catch, is located right behind the cock. It provides an additional safety measure with this lock as it has a safety catch  cut into the tumbler. Most doglocks do not, so this one is likely a johnney- come- lately. Note the lack of bridles for the tumbler inside the lock and for the frizzen on the outside.  Both are early features, very early in the 1700's.  The pic on the right above shows what I mean by 'turkey gun', killed 4-11-2010 in Texas.

This is what the lock looks like in the gun. One thing about these big locks- they spark really well. Note the three big headed screws that hold the lock in place over the dragon sideplate, which I haven't engraved yet. Use your imagination a little: reduce the size and caliber of the gun, deepen the trigger guard so you can get a mitten into it during the winter and make it out of sheet iron to reduce costs, keep the dragon sideplate, modernize the lock a touch and you have a Northwest trade gun. It is thought that this early fowler was indeed the predecessor of those handy lightweight hunting guns that were so popular in the northern American forests.

The front of the trigger guard is pinned, the rear is screwed down, neither end is inletted,  just like the original. The lock is shown above in the 'dogged' position. This position is halfway between the notched 'safety' and the fully cocked position, which takes the weight of the 3/4 cocked 'cock' or hammer off the 'safety' notch. When the 'cock' is cycled to the rear to the fully cocked position, the 'cock' knocks the 'dog' out of the way so it doesn't interfere with the fall of the 'cock'

#598 Lighter Hawken percussion half stock rifle by DOC. Plain Plus walnut stock, nothing fancy. Green Mountain barrel in 50 caliber, (so marked on oblique flat of barrel) 1" diameter, 32" long, 1-66 twist for patched round ball. Conformation traditional in every way. 14 inch pull. All iron furniture with G. Silver trim. All the Hawken features you have come to expect, like double bolted wrist, long bar DST which fires set or unset, long tang, double keys in silver surrounds, stout 7/16th inch ramrod, double ferrules on soldered rib, silver nose cap. Barrel and most furniture antique rust browned,  barrel is marked 'S Hawken- St. Louis', my GBW cipher is found on the rear oblique of the barrel, the GRRW logo, which I have owned since '72,  is located on the bottom flat of the barrel. SOLD

#596- Doc-built 16 bore side by side flintlock fowler, fancy walnut with correct grain in the wrist and fancy figure in the butt, classic proportions, Egg flintlocks, double hooked breech, lock panels tapered to the rear, steel furniture, silver trim, checkered grip, regulated to shoot patched ball as well as shot. 

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.  SOLD

#546- Pauley 504 caliber in line Sporting Rifle with false left hand lock and side lock safety.

        The English made many sporting rifles with the sidelock on the left side, but meant for use by a right hander. They had noted that the right hander's thumb lies in perfect position to cock a left sided hammer . This rifle, made by DOC, is made in that style. It's fully useful for both right and left hander. It is 504 caliber, with White 1-24 twist rifling, made for the same Power Punch and Power Star bullets that shoot so well in White designed rifles. The lock and hammer are false, as were all of Pauley's designs, pulling back on the hammer cocks the in-line mechanism so you can cap it ready for the shot. There is also a Side Lock Safety, designed by DOC, that locks the trigger in SAFE when straight up, and releases it for FIRE when horizontal. It is located on the right side. The folding rear sight is mounted on a quarter rib. The tang is long, and will accomodate a tall Vernier rear sight if wanted. SOLD 

The stock is walnut with nice grain running correctly through the wrist, the pistol grip is capped by rosewood. Both are stained English Red, then varnished with Brownell's fantastic waterproof epoxy varnish. The metal is finished with bright blue Dura-Coat, a better and more durable finish than any ordinary brown or blue.

The Side Lock Safety is seen here at the rear of the sidelock panel in a very ergonomic position. (PHOTO LEFT) It locks the trigger, which locks the hammer, when upright on SAFE. Push it forward for FIRE. The trigger is single, with a 2 lb. letoff. It is adjustable.  The left sided cocking handle, seen above in the middle and right photos, is actuated by a braided wire, which means you can cock the hammer (seen on the right above) then push it forward out of battery for the shot (see below, left) That way there is no weight on the inline hammer.    

Also, the hammer cocking handle can be rotated into the up-lifting safety notch for a second and very secure SAFE when the rifle is cocked.  (photo left, above) The quarter rib and folding rear sight can be seen in the photo right, above. The front sight is a fiber-optic red bead on a ramp. The ramrod rides on an under-rib and is held by two ferrules. The long tang will take a Vernier rear sight if you want, The fore-end is styled after Henry. There is a rubber recoil pad, which does not look at all out of place. The English originated leather covered rubber pads at about the time this rifle was designed in 1812. J S Pauley London is engraved on the lockplate. The rifle has been accurized, shoots into three inches at 100 yards with the open sights and my old eyes and it is right on the money at that range with 80 gr fffG 777 and a 500 grain No Excuse bullet.

#603- French Fusil  C grade, 20 bore with 40 inch Colerain octagon to round barrel, gorgeous AAA maple stock with fierce tiger stripe , all fancy brass furniture. Made for shooting ball but can handle shot as well. Very graceful, well balanced and quick in the hand, much lighter than you would think. The French were in the forefront of arms design as early as the late 1600's. This design surfaced in the 1700's and was imported by the shipload. It was a favorite on the Eastern frontier.  

This hunting gun is equipped with an interchangable Colonial brand choke, the one in it now  is a super-full, but it comes with a choke bore insert as well, so you can shoot ball if you want, or shoot tight patterns at turkeys like I did with it. When the 2009 turkey season loomed, I got a bee in my bonnet (Scotch ancestry) and threw this gun together, didn't get the metal completely browned nor the maple past the stain stage, did finish the lock, (which is blued and a fantastic sparker). I fired two shots at a turkey target for pattern purposes. getting 9-12 head and neck hits at 30 yards with 1 1/2 oz #7 nickel  plated shot over 90 gr Swiss fffg, the next four shots killed toms from 25 to 44 yards. I called one tom within three feet, then jumped up and killed him on the run at 33 yards as he tried to escape. The brag is not in the good shooting but in how fast the gun was to the shoulder, light and quick. It's a fine hunting gun. It's no wonder the Eastern Indian liked it so much, to the delight of the French traders and the agony of the British. After the season, I finished the gun, it's ready to complete your Eastern Indian or French Voyager persona, or take turkey hunting next spring.

#599 Sporty Hawken rifle by Doc in 54 caliber with fancy AAAA tiger striped maple stock, Green Mountain barrel 1" diameter X 32" long, 1-66 twist for patched round ball. Iron furniture with silver trim,  trigger guard has the occasionally seen spur.  14 inch pull.  Hawken features  like double bolted wrist, long bar DST which fires set or unset, long tang, double keys in silver surrounds, stout 7/16th inch ramrod, double ferrules on soldered rib, silver nose cap. Barrel, lock and most furniture is browned,  barrel is marked S Hawken- St. Louis on the top flat. My GBW cipher is found on the bottom of the barrel along with GRRW markings. Absolutely traditional in every way. For sale as is, or finished, later.  Classic Hawken features throughout. SOLD

You can see the quality of the maple, the tiger stripe goes pretty well from end to end. The maple was liberally soaked in a drying oil, then finished with multiple coats of tough Bivin's varnish.

The more stain, the better the tiger stripe shows up. There are multiple coats of Laurel Mountain Forge stain here. I experiment with color as the sanding process goes forward, applying stain, evaluating, then sanding off the stain using progressively finer grades of paper. Sometimes I can get it right if I try hard.

You will note that the screws and silver furniture are not yet finished. It's because I got excited about taking pictures of the fancy wood and forgot. The screws will all end up polished then fire blued, the silver accents will be polished bright.

The conformation of this Hawken is typical of the lighter ones seen, mostly originally sold for local use in the Missouri woods rather than the heavy use seen in the plains and mountains of the far West. In 54 caliber, it will be plenty useful for anything up to elk size with adequate loads.

#600 Bridger Hawken 58 caliber by  DOC, AAA maple stock, tapered Kelly barrel 32 inches long  with 1-72 twist for patched round ball , Classic Bridger Hawken conformation with all the minor details exactly right, copies the Hawken that belonged to Bridger now in the collection of the Montana State Historical Society, and which GRRW had in a local Bank's safe for several years while they copied it for production. Doc designed the master for the stock carving during his GRRW years. All iron furniture including fore-end cap, silver trim, adjustable step rear sight, long bar DST double bolted to tang, this is an as-close-as-you -can-get-copy of the original Bridger rifle, none finer available.  This should be a superb hunting rifle, none better. 

The top barrel flat is marked, 'S Hawken  St. Louis" in one line just like the original. The bottom of the barrel is stamped with GreenRiver RifleWorks, Roosevelt, Utah and Doc's GBW stamp in there too.

The original GRRW stamps are in DOC's possession and contrary to what many think, DOC never sold the full Green River RifleWorks name. 

#624 Doc built English Sporting Rifle 504 caliber, used but in great condition. White 504 barrel in perfect condition, mounted in Red English finished laminate  straight gripped stock with inch thick butt pad. Traditional flat springed percussion lock with heavy but handsome Manton style percussion breech. Very accurate, capable of long range shooting. DST can be finely tuned. Best load is 70 grains Pyrodex-P and a 460 grain White or No Excuse slip-fit bullet. I watched this rifle take down a good sized sheep at 125 yards one day. The critter went over like a tree and hardly wiggled. This is a great hunting rifle capable of target work. 

This rifle started life years ago as a prototype for White Systems, but never was accepted so never came into production. As such, it is one of a kind. It came back into my hands through a trade up to a more expensive fancy rifle.

There is a long tang for mounting a tall Vernier sight if wanted. The black finish is Black Ice Teflon, perfectly waterproof. The finish on the wood is a clear two part epoxy which is likewise waterproof and very scratch resistant.

#691- Here is a lovely Maryland rifle, much in the John Armstrong tradition but left handed. It is 50 caliber with a 'B' sized swamped barrel 44 inches long. It was taken in on trade.  You can find it at 'Trackofthewolf.com', who has even better photos than these. 

The iron of the barrel and lock is finished a lovely antique bluish-brown- polished and smooth. The carving is delicately and finely done. The maker was obviously a superb craftsman. It is not signed.

The finish on the wood harkens back to old times. The brass is perfectly antiqued. You can almost smell the wood smoke and sweat. The lock is a Chambers left handed. It sparks with enthusiasm.

There's not much engraving, but the quality matches that of the carving. It might be sparse, but it is delightfully traditional. Too bad we're not all left handed.

There is a patch box release in the toe plate. You can see it right in the middle of the engraved flower. Push it and the patch box lid pops up. The trigger is single, correctly so, too.

There is a grand harmony to this gun seen but in few others.

#690 Green River RifleWorks Leman Trade Rifle in 45 caliber. Originally built by Bill Mckay of GRRW, later refurbished by DOC. His 'GBW' cipher is found at the rear of the barrel. McKays 'Mc' is found in pencil in the barrel channel near the pewter tip. There is a GRRW barrel with 7 deep grooves, 1-66 twist, it appears pristine, looks to have been fired very little if at all. The maple stock is plain as a yard of pumpwater, as were many of the Leman trade guns. The lock is by Kern (used only on the first 1000 of this series rifle by GRRW), single trigger with very nice pull-off, all sand cast brass furniture typical of the early GRRW production, graceful pewter fore-end tip. 

There are a few scuff marks from long storage  that can barely be seen on stock and barrel. You have to look close to find them. There is a tiny fracture line that does not penetrate the wood near the left fore-arm oval and another on the left side of the tang that does. That one has been repaired with two-tube pine pitch (epoxy). It appears to be quite solid.

DOC has done a beautiful job refurbishing the rifle. It appears almost new. It was originally made in 1974. 

This is a pretty plain rifle, but the barrel is as new, the refurbish job masterful and the conformation perfect. I guess it should be. DOC designed the rifle and built the first 60 of them by hand in 1972.

#677-Sporting Rifle with White round tapered barrel in 504 caliber, quilted maple stock,  'Prince of Wales" style round knob grip, classic Manton breech with long tang, under-rib with two ferrules, steel furniture with black GunKote finish, sling swivels, red rubber recoil pad and rose-wood tipped Henry style fore-arm, a solid gun meant for the dedicated hunter. The maple is stained English Red and varnished in the classic style. The stainless steel is finished with gloss black GunKote. This a is a good example of a Sporting Rifle meant for serious hunting.

SPORTING RIFLE, 24" White barrel, 504 caliber, black GunKote finish, Williams sights, Manton sidelock.

There are still a few screws to blue and silver to polish but could not help putting the photos up, that maple is soooo handsome.

Here is something you just can't do with an ordinary flintlock: see below

The hammer (cock) is  full cocked and the frizzen (steel) in the firing position with the sliding pan cover closed. The thig-a-ma-gig on the lockplate just above the trigger is a safety. It is shown pulled back and up so it locks the sear and the gun will not fire. Push it forward and down to release the trigger. An additional safety is built into the design of the lock: you can cock it, close the sliding pan cover with priming in place, then lift the steel (frizzen) off the cover and throw it forward out of the way of the cock.  To shoot, snap the steel back into place on the pan cover and pull the trigger. The falling cock knocks the pan cover forward and uncovers the priming. Note the horizontal sear nose sticking out of the lockplate just behind and under the tail of the cock min the photo on the right below.

Above is a view of the internals of the lock. It looks complicated and it is. It needs that fat mainspring to make it operate. Right above is the lock in the fired position.

I had a few flintlocks to repair and assemble, just could not resist  putting this big snaphaunce together. As you can see, it is much more complicated than a classic flintlock, but is far easier to tune than a wheel-lock. The snaphaunce shares some of the features of a wheel-lock, mainly the horizontal sear & trigger mechanism and the sliding pan cover.  It also features  the two separate safety systems illustrated above. SOLD

  #621 Early Fullstock Percussion Hawken rifle, 50 caliber, one inch octagon GreenMountain barrel 40 inches long, great-grained but plainer walnut fullstock, traditional engraved flat spring lock signed 

S Hawken, double-bolted long tang, Hawken percussion breech with flat-to-the-wrist trigger guard mounted on long DST bar. Traditional in every sense of the word. 

The furniture is iron except the German silver key surrounds. There are three flat keys. The DST fires set or unset.  The sights are a Modena style rear and G. silver blade front on a brass base. There is an iron Modena style patchbox.  This will make a superb hunting rifle.

The top flat of the barrel is marked S Hawken St. Louis. My GBW cipher is on the bottom flat.

 #593- Doc-built Mid-Eastern Bench/ Over-the-Log gun, new super-accurate stored GRRW barrel 58 caliber 1 1/4" between flats. Barrel  is 36" long,  Stock sports strong grained perch-belly walnut stock with double keys in silver surrounds, Manton hooked breech with drip bar for easy cleaning, DST fires set or unset, Blued steel furniture including checkered iron buttplate. Weighs right on 14 lbs. GRRW barrels have always been super accurate. They were because the rifling cutter was also used to shave the lands. This rifle should be a match winner at any range.  SOLD

There is no under-rib or ramrod, since the rifle is obviously meant for target work. 

The screws will end up polished and blued. The German silver escutcheons will get a shiny polish. The stock deserves a few more coats of varnish. I like John Biven's old stock finish system for later percussion rifles. It pretty well matches the early finishes.

#576 Lion Beck-  A reproduction of the famous flintlock rifle by J P Beck of the Lebanon School with a rampant Lion behind the cheekpiece. The original is very likely pre-revolutionary as the double headed eagle is a distinct pre-revolutionary English influenced feature. This is the finest piece of maple I have ever worked on, intensly curly and hard as a rock. Barrel is by Rayl, 50 caliber, swamped and 50 inches long. Pull is 15 inches. 

There are four ramrod ferrules, including the rear one, as well as four barrel pins. The fore-end cap is obliquely ribbed.

I had a hard time not engraving the brass sidelock plate, but the original is plain, so I left it that way.

The rampant Lion is a distinctly English feature, seen on the English Coat-of-Arms, but rendered in a unique folk-art fashion. Getting the lion to stand out in bas-relief required the sharpest of tools, the utter-most patience and more sweat of brow than I usually care to spend, except I could not put aside the challenge of doing it. The maple was so hard and densly curly, popping out a single hunk could have ruined the whole project.

#597 Doc built lighter LEFT HAND Hawken rifle, plain but extremely strong and sturdy maple stock, There is a touch of tiger striping in the forearm wood but not much. Green Mountain 50 caliber octagon barrel one inch across the flats and 32 inches long. rifles with 1-66 twist for patched round ball. All iron furniture except silver fore-stock ovals and silver nose-cap. There are no known antique left handed Hawken rifles, but this one is as close A MIRROR IMAGE as you can get with a repro. 

Pull is 14.4 inches, for the taller among you left-handers out there. Weight a bit heavier than the other two light Hawkens illustrated, because of the solid wood. All parts are top quality, nothing better available on the market.   

#630-  1814 Common rifle, this one has a 54 cal Colerain barrel, cast parts by the Rifle Shoppe, excellent walnut for a military grade rifle, with a cut out on the cheekpeice as was often done with this rifle. There is a beat up, rusty original on the nearby Ute Reservation with the cut out plus brass tacks, beads, leather and feathers. I'm thinking of copying it. Maybe if I bury it for 100 years it will come out like the original.  No, there are no photos of the original, family will not allow it

Obviously, the metal and wood are not yet finished sights, barrel bands and band springs and all small parts are in place. It only awaits finishing. You can see how handy a light hunting rifle this would make. The fact that a few of them still exist in the West is testimony to how well they were liked and how well they endured.  There were only 1500 of them to start with.

#530- Original Green River RifleWorks Leman Trade Rifle in 45 caliber, GRRW seven groove 33 inch barrel one" diameter across the flats, plain maple half-stock stained dark, brass Leman style butt plate and trigger guard, single trigger actuating the Kern coil spring lock, pewter fore-end tip. NEVER FIRED. This is an early one, the lock is a Kern rather than the later flat spring Silers, the trigger guard and buttplate are cruder sand castings, not the later more sophisticated black sand castings,  The tang tip is squared, not rounded as were the later ones. The pewter tip is not gracefully shaped as were the later ones, The barrel is not signed by the gunsmith as they were later on, but the GRRW stamp on the barrel is plainly legible. This is a prime example of an early GRRW Leman Trade Rifle in unfired condition. The gentleman who sold it to me claimed that it came out of an office safe where it had lain since it was built in the early 1970's, but it has seen some handling. There are a few very minor handling marks and there is a crack in the wood to the left of the tang.

#610- Springfield 1835 musket- standard military dimensions and finish, 69 caliber smooth-bore, all top quality parts.

The barrel came from Colerain, the lock parts and other castings from the Rifle Shoppe, the wood from Dunlap. 

The perfect musket for an early Southern recruit in the first battles of the Civil War. There were many flint muskets used early on and were favored by many. They were faster than a percussion musket simply because you didn't have to fish out and fit a cap to make it fire. Perfect for the Battle of Bull Run on the Southron side.

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.  

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. 

The patchbox is engraved Klett style. All screws have been  polished and fire blued. The patchbox opens in original style with a latch on the buttplate.

The lock is an English Trade lock by L&R, a beautiful reproduction of the lock that was so successful in the frontier gun trade. It sparks as good as it looks.

I could not resist shooting this fine rifle. I took it to a match in Price UT the last week-end in Oct '09, sighting it in same time as shooting the match. We fired 80 shots. I used the same flint through-out and had 3 miss-fires. I used 60 gr ffg Goex  and a 490  ball with 22 thou ticking spit patch. I swear every shot hit exactly as I shot it. I could call every shot, even though I started with a thinner patch and graduated to the thicker one. Accuracy did not seem to change. It was just as accurate with a thinner one (18 thou) as the thicker 22 thou but it did get dirtier faster, then cleaned up with the 22 thou patch. I did not clean it through-out the shooting. I consider this kind of behavior the hallmark of a good barrel, shoots anything, cleans up with the right combination.

All in all, this is a beautiful Southern rifle with obvious southern provenance. It is marvelous how elegant design features from earlier English and  German guns were blended into an equally elegant style by Southern gunsmiths like Klett. It is a wonderful rifle for offhand shooting. 

#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. 

#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. 

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".  

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 Iraqouis 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 brown, if not more so. The stock is incise carved with Rococco 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

  #109 Javelina Shotgun, prototype, the only one ever made by Doc, a prototype that never went anywhere. 12 Gauge cut down Tominator barrel with straight rifling, Colonial interchangable choke, Bolt trigger, uses the usual loading for the Tominator. Hunted