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I went to a little shop off pa522 and saw a few barrels getting cut rifling, Jager rifles, Lancaster flinters, a matchlock made in the poconos. Talked guns with a master barrel maker, and traded jokes with his father. Son does the bbls, dad builds the rifles.
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Then dropped cash on a Lancaster style Pa barn gun. Pics to come, sometime after it gets finished. I am in line, a friend of mine is at 14 months.
54 cal, It isn't going to be a presentation piece, its a hunting rifle. Basics for it are curly maple stock, 14 in lenth of pull, 44 in cut rifleing bbl browned, Siler lock, single trigger that will break at about 2lb, brass trigger guard, no butt plate or fore end. Not a bunch to it, about a years salary for a farmer in pa in the late 1700's and about double+ the yearly black ops funds for a married tech in pa in the early 2000's. The spousal unit will have to find out about this one before it gets home
I think she has a good idea that I did it.
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Then dropped cash on a Lancaster style Pa barn gun. Pics to come, sometime after it gets finished. I am in line, a friend of mine is at 14 months.
54 cal, It isn't going to be a presentation piece, its a hunting rifle. Basics for it are curly maple stock, 14 in lenth of pull, 44 in cut rifleing bbl browned, Siler lock, single trigger that will break at about 2lb, brass trigger guard, no butt plate or fore end. Not a bunch to it, about a years salary for a farmer in pa in the late 1700's and about double+ the yearly black ops funds for a married tech in pa in the early 2000's. The spousal unit will have to find out about this one before it gets home
