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Hello to all. I made these 2 guns for a man some years ago, and he is loosing his sight. I feel very bad for him, but reality is something we can't avoid. So he has asked me to help him sell the 2 guns as a set. He may agree to break them up and sell each one separately, but at first he wants to try to sell them together. Both have hand made stocks. The pistol has one of my hand made barrels. I also made the patch box and side plate on the rifle by hand and the butt cap on the pistol too. The rifle has a 50 cal swamped Colorain barrel and a Chamber lock. The pistol has an L&R lock. Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 008 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 005 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 004 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 003 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 006 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] 11290001 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] 11290005 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] 12030002 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] P. B. Wrist-side by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] P.B. Trigger G. by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep] [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/4283/35622516166_f933af15f1_b.jpg[/img]PB Zihn-York 4 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
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PB Zihn-York 4 by Steve Zihn, on [bleep] PB Zihn-York lock by Steve Zihn, on [bleep] The owner wishes all correspondence to go through me and all money transactions too. I can be contacted at szihn wyoming.com The price for the set is $5,100 and I pay the shipping to the 48 states. Any shipments outside the USA or to Alaska or Hawaii will be split with me paying up to $100 in the cost of the shipment and the buyer paying anything over $100. Payments must be either US Postal Money Orders or cash.
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WOW!
Awesome firelocks, Steve! Very sorry for the owner’s predicament.
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Thanks Kaywoodie.
Please spread the word. Maybe we can help the guy.
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Nice work on those. Will make someone very happy.
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Do you expect somebody to shoot those?
They are far too beautiful!
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Do you expect somebody to shoot those?
They are far too beautiful! Tyrone, If they belonged to me, I’d shoot the heck out of em!!! 😁😁😁 My bucket hunt would be a euro hunt for rottwild or damwild with something of the quality and beauty of one of Steve’s Jäger rifles!! To dream!!!! Have a great weekend! Kw
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Would love to hear details of the stock. What kind of wood is it and what finish was applied? Colorants/stains/dyes?
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Tyrone, the owner has killed several deer with the rifle, so yes they are for shooting and hunting. It shoots VERY well too. I made him a Jaeger rifle before he got the Longrifle in the picture and he killed elk with that one. They are very fancy and artful, but they are still RIFLES and I make them to hunt with and to shoot. So no need to leave such thing sin a safe. Hunt with them. I take pains to make them reliable and accurate. I want my customers to fill freezers with them, of the accuracy and reliability would not be needed.
Gringo Loco.......the stocks are both Sugar Maple and 100% hand made. I have mixed my own dies in the past and I did that by mixing different die powders from time to time, but I made those guns long enough ago that I can't remember what the mix was for the stains. ALL my stains were alcohol based however, but for a few that I used Acid stains on at the request of the customers. Water and alcohol bases stains work best in my experience when compared to oil based stains.
The finish is low gloss Tung oil which is easy to maintain. The rifle in the picture has been hunted with many time in Idaho, in rain and snow and as you can see, the finish is holding up quite well. I like tung because it's easy to match if a customer wants to touch it up 10-20 years later.
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Dang, it would be a pleasure to own those.
The temptation to make smoke with them would be tremendous!
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LOL! Those are just out of my league I guess!
You made the World a better place with those!
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Ok, the owner just told me to go ahead and sell them individually if I get any interest. He also has a very nice period correct powder horn to sell too.
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Steve,
How about pictures of the powder horn and prices for all three items.
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Nice.
Steve, did you do the horn, too?
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Damn nice horn! And priced right. Won’t last long.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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