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That the builder made up of parts collected and reused from other old wore out rifles. One an old government contract rifle. Anyway that’s his backstory to this rifle. Reuse of parts and freshening of barrels was quite common. So I cristened this rifle "Old Lazarus”, being brought back from the dead.



Finally got around to inscribing his name on the toe of the stock.



Barrel would have been freshed out to .54 cal. Swamped. Rescued from some old broke stock rifle. And some of the furniture would have come off a Harpers Ferry 1803 rifle.