#690 Green River RifleWorks Leman Trade Rifle in 45 caliber. Originally built by BillMckay of GRRW, later refurbished by DOC. His 'GBW' cipher is found at the rear of the barrel. McKays 'Mc' if ound 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. POR OBO

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 he 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.

#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, but has been re-finished and re-furbished to near new. This will be a good rifle for the smaller shorter armed man or maybe even a woman. $500

#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 pistol is now at trackofthewolf.com.

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. There is a full photo workup of the pistol on 'custom traditional' to the left.

#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 (not shown-coming later), silver trim. Long bar Hawken rear adjustable sight. Front sight and fore-end cap missing- coming later. Very handsome, modeled on the Bridger Hawken rifle that GRRW had here in town for a few years back in the 1970's.

#611- J S Pauley traditional inline pistol by DOC. Pauley invented the in-line percussion action just 4 years after Forsyth invented the peercussion system. This gun is actually a White inline action in 50 cal swamped barrel with 1-24 twist rifling for patched round ball or bullet. Brass furniture, Doc designed side lock safety mounted where the frizzen used to be, second safety on the hammer handle itself (rotates up into a lock notch, false hammer cocks the inline hammer. AAAA maple full-stock.  Front sight is a blade, rear sight is screw adjustable for elevation.  Marked  Pauley-London' on lock plate.   Uses a #11 cap. POR

#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. It's a great turkey gun. This meant to be a hunting gun, so it 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. 

#598 Lighter Hawken percussion half stock rifle by DOC. Plain Plus walnut stock. Green Mountain barrel in 50 caliber, 1" diameter, 32" long, 1-66 twist for patched round ball. Absolutely traditional in every way. 14 inch pull. All iron furniture. 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  browned, lock  finished antique blue, barrel is marked ' S Hawken- St. Louis', my GBW cipher will be found on the bottom of the barrel. Make me an offer. Rendezvous season is here!  POR

There is a full photo display of this rifle in 'Custom Traditional' to the left. Hurry! Hawkens move fast!

#599 Sporty Hawken rifle by Doc in 54 caliber with fancy AAA 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 and most furniture will be browned, lock will be finished antique blue, barrel will be marked Hawken- St. Louis, my GBW cipher will be found on the bottom of the barrel. Absolutely traditional in every way. For sale as is, or finished, later.  Classic Hawken features throughout. POR

#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 Hawken conformation withy all the minor details exactly right, copies the Hawken that belonged to Bridger now in the collection of the Montana State Historical Society, 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 as close a copy of the original Bridger rifle as there is available. Available finished, just getting it done now.  Finished photos soon. POR 

#623 Gemmer-Springfield trapdoor rifle in 40-65 caliber built on 1869 marked black powder only action with new octagon 40-65 barrel by Kelly. AAA grade Bridger Hawken style stock with iron furniture and silver trim. You can see that the hammer nose needs some forge work. . More photos to follow as the rifle makes progress.

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.

More photos are available in 'Custom-Traditional" above

#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.

More photos and description are available under 'custom traditional' in orange at the top of the page.