Shooting ole sparkie.

[Kurt]

Kurt I'd love to see more pics of your rifle. Love the southern mountain rifles. I've been considering building myself a Bean style rifle.

Here you go. Nasty day today!!
The barrel is a 44" Rice swamped in 54 cal.
I think Steve made this to look like an original as close as possible short of banged up wood. The iron to iron mating he used bronz rivits and solder. The lock is a classic ketland lock. Not sure how he aged the metal sort of looks like he might have used Naval Jelly ??