This almost 4 year project is getting there. This is the Abby gun with engraving added. Metal Work (and everything else) done by Dan Rossiter at Custom Stocks and Steel. Engraving done by Jack Jones in Forest, Va. Metal work my design with lots of input from Dan. I'm only going to post a few of these, because I may do an article on this project in the future.
I'll be taking it to Dan on Monday and we will do start the next phase (case coloring, blueing, assembly test firing etc).
Good lord willing I'll have a chance to take the gun with Abby to a local shooting preserve in January. She will be 13 years old in January.
PS. Every scene on this gun tells a story. Whether its Kansas pheasants or Virginia Grouse and Wood Ducks and of course Maine Woodcock. I can look at every scene and tell you a story of Abby and I being there together. Pretty cool.
PS. Sorry about the quality of the photo's, but my camera is only so good.
And Abby with her niece Gracie. This picture is the one Jack Jones used to engrave Abby on the bottom. I unfortunately had a computer crash several years ago and lost 100's of pictures of Abby in her prime. I think Jack got the profile pretty good.
And of course where this started. 12 Gauge Sterlingworth Ejector with 28" barrels made in 1913. By the time this project is completed, the gun will be 100 years old. The blank is English Walnut from California.
