Lets see your favorite rifle!

[Doug]

My favorite is the Navy Arms Morse riflein my signature line.  Its a 50 cal with a coned muzzle.

[Doug]

Yes and I have recently traded it for another gun.

[Smokin_Gun]

What did ya get in trade Doug?

SG

[Smokin_Gun]

Well this one is my Oldest and most favored SmokePole...Tennessee Mountain Poorboy .50 cal. I've had it 'bout 25 years and many Rondys...

Here's a closer up of her...


SG

[Lady of the Woods]

Holy Crow LittleJim; I here's the Lady of the Woods. check out the patch box, very similar to yours eh?

Built by Homer Dangler .50 cal, colerain swamped barrel with a silar lock, early virginia style roughly 1780s.
she's a sweet shooter!
Zan

[Stumblin Wolf]

Homer builds some fine rifles! Met him up at Friendship years ago.What weight is your colerain barrel?

[Lady of the Woods]

have to admit my ignorance, but I'm not sure what you mean by "weight" of the barrel? length is 42 inches, takes .490 balls? total weight of rifle is around 7 to 9 pounds (I'm guessing). please elaborate on what you mean by "weight"

yes, it is a privilege to own one of his rifles.
zan

[pathfinder]

Weight is the diameter of the barrel at the breach. I've shot with Mr. Dangler at the Saulk Trail turkey and hog shoots. First class gentelman and a great human. Proud to know him!

[Stumblin Wolf]

A-B-C ....A being the lightest. Mines a C weight and weighs 9 lbs! From the weight of your rifle sounds like you have a B weight. Man. I just hate talking weight with a woman! Anyhoooow I'm thinking of building a new rifle but with a B weight barrel.I don't really know how to differentiate between them except by what Pathfinder said...break out the calipers! Or if I hefted it! But an A weight....pretty rare.(and real light!)
Or you could tear your rifle apart and there will be an A B or C stamped on the bottom flat by the breech!

[spud]

MY Koster special .54cal mule ear 15lb.offhand target rifle the most accurate rifle I own.

[William]

Boss Hoss, how did you get the grain to show up like that?  Am thinking of refinishing my Trade Rifle after I put together a pistol kit and wondering if it's just sanding and tru-oil or is there some type of stain that figures into the process?

This is Thumper - 54 cal Lyman GPR i redun awhile back 

[William]

My .54 cal trade rifle;

[Dryball]

Good lookin gun...and that rack is outstanding!

Ned

[William]

Thanks.  The rack was made from a cypress log that my grandfather fished out of the nearby river more than 30 years ago.  I left the edges with the natural curve of the tree itself and mounted the spring tensioned holder with a levergun in mind but have found that my smokepole fits perfectly as well.  About half the trunk was quartersawn, and I've made numerous things out of it including a coffe table along with some things turned on the lathe.

[bull frog]

Not to take any thing away from the rifle, but I really love that gun rack!