Hold that foreend!

[Kurt]

Bruce, From this neck of the woods the rest Rick is using started from the over the log shoots. It's a very good rest when your out in the boonies looking for Thanksgiving dinner. Good for prone, sitting and standing. The problem is finding a dead fall in the right place.

Rick that rifle is a good tool. It hits like Thor's hammer with a round ball or with a mini converted to a flat base.

[Rick Mulhern]

Bruce, From this neck of the woods the rest Rick is using started from the over the log shoots. It's a very good rest when your out in the boonies looking for Thanksgiving dinner. Good for prone, sitting and standing. The problem is finding a dead fall in the right place.

Rick that rifle is a good tool. It hits like Thor's hammer with a round ball or with a mini converted to a flat base.

What length is the barrel on it Kurt?

[Kurt]

Rick the barrel is 1-1/8"X36". It is heavy at 12.2 oz. But when I build that rifle about 30 years ago I had a lot more upper body strength to hold it steady. I never quite finished it, the barrel still needs browning. I was hoping that it would get a good patina like this rifle below. It has been out in some nasty weather over the years but the barrel just wont change to a patina. I guess someday I will work it over with some Naval jell. I been thinking about getting some new draw files and swamp it to lighten it up some.

[Rick Mulhern]

Nope....don't touch that barrel! You're gonna live long enough to one day you're gonna appreciate just being able to sit at a bench and shoot and you'll appreciate that weight!! Fine looking beast it is!!

[Kurt]

When you get tired of that full stock sparker you let me know and I will come down to swamp land and pick it up.

[rdnck]

Like Rick said, DON'T TOUCH THAT BARREL! It will definitely change the harmonics, and if your luck runs anything like mine, the rifle will quit shooting. BTDT. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[Rick Mulhern]

When you get tired of that full stock sparker you let me know and I will come down to swamp land and pick it up.

Kurt

REDNECK knows!! All that rifle of yours needs is a constant companion and shooting!

Just got back from Kansas where I killed a buck with my .308 and my son told me "Dad...next September we're gonna go hunting up here on my place in 'short britches' and kill one of these monster bucks when they least expect it! Just sight your muzzle-loader in!" I told him my ML STAYED SIGHTED IN so no problem! Buck I killed I only got a short look at and he had 'ground shrinkage' which I didn't expect! Need I say I was disappointed?? I wasn't total embarrassment but way less than what I got in 2014! B has many good bucks on his place and this proved to me that even after 65 years of hunting them....sometimes we get a little to anxious or trigger happy!!

My 2014 buck:

IMG_0729 by Sharps Man, on Flickr

[Fogman01]

This thread is amazing! I love the rifles. Kurt's rifle is absolutely beautiful with the old looking wood. The Hold the Forend article was great I will try that. I have a 10# 45-100 that bucks up off the rest a little so I will try holding it like the article says.

[Kurt]

Rick. That is a fine looking Deer with a lot of mass at the base.

I sat here this morning with a cup of coffee in my hand looking out at the snow covered ground thinking if I should go out and shoot some bullets in the snow piles I made to test the alloy for my new rifle and loads, but looking at the thermometer it is -5 degrees so I poured another cup and looked at all of the deer tracks close as inside 50 feet from the window when a large doe and her younger fawn trailing behind her at a good clip and 50 feet behind the two does a large drop tine buck following at a good clip trying to catch up.. That is the first drop tine I have seen since the mid 90's and the season is over except for archery. Might go and see if there are still some over the counter tags. He is a BIG buck with a very white crown and points I could not count before he got into the pines. Well worth freezing the fingers stalking him down with a bow or camera.


Fogman

I like the old look in the front stuffers. When I build them I used acid and darkened the wood over a gas flame to get that color. It looks like the wood is 200 years old, minus the dents and cracks. I like the plain Jane rifles with iron furniture with hammer forge marks. Don't get me wrong the fancy inlayed silver and ivory with carving on the iron is a pleasure to look at but I like the plain rifle look.

Kurt

[Don McDowell]

Fogman, holding that forend is the thing I really like about shooting off a wrist rest in bptr.