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10-29-2018, 11:06 AM | #193 | ||||||
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Not wood that is one a gun, but someday will be.
Last week I had the opportunity to buy 42 high quality stock blanks from the estate of a since passed gunsmith that was a friend of a friend of my family. He passed 5 years ago and was a life long practicing general gunsmith. Primarily working on and building custom rifles. In the lot was Circassian (english, turkish, french), Bastogne, Claro and American. All of it is very old. He had everything dated, not sure if they were cut dates or purchase dates, but the oldest date is 1959 and the newest is 1973! Now I just need to find room to store it all. On top of the nearly 150 blanks that I already had on hand. As an aside... there was about 20 blanks of very nice Myrtle that I left behind since I do not work with it, so if anyone may know an interested party... let me know. IMG_2040.jpg IMG_2047.jpg IMG_2048.jpg IMG_2049.jpg IMG_2102.jpeg IMG_2103.jpeg IMG_2104.jpeg IMG_2043.jpeg IMG_2045.jpeg
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10-29-2018, 03:55 PM | #194 | ||||||
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Nice find Brian. Below is a picture I took from a site about walnut tree processing for gunstocks. It clearly shows how stocks should be cut with straight grain through the grip.
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03-01-2019, 08:16 PM | #195 | ||||||
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My Parker reproduction
This is my first reproduction, early 28 gauge.
26” English stock, single trigger. I look foreword to chasing grouse and woodcock this fall. I shot some preserve birds this winter with it and I believe it will make a fine grouse gun. |
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03-01-2019, 08:29 PM | #196 | ||||||
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Great curl!
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03-02-2019, 07:09 AM | #197 | ||||||
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Brian, you have some knockout pieces there! Wow
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03-10-2019, 06:57 PM | #198 | ||||||
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Posted this before in another thread, but this is from my reproduction that Brian Dudley completely redid.
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03-19-2019, 07:25 AM | #199 | ||||||
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Some people have ask about the set of 30" barrels for a Repro. Here is the wood on the gun. It has 30" and 28" barrels and is a steel shot special. 28" barrels of course have IC & mod chokes. The 30" barrels have Briley thin wall choke tubes. I'm not sure if this was an option at the time but the only other 30" set that I personally know of also has the Briley thin walls. Neat thing about this gun is it comes with both splinter and beavertail forend and they are interchangeable for either barrel. Those 30" barrels really swing well.
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