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Yes, the grip looks chunky, but functional. If you had to club someone over the head you'd probably still be left with a decent pistol grip, at the very least. Thought might have crossed someones mind a century++ ago.

That rifle screams for a large bore.

I think it may have been a .62. I do not remember exactly. If you look at the tang closely, you can see that it had a lollipop aperture sight. I think it may have been originally a target rifle, but it sure looks like a hunting rifle otherwise.

Brent

"I really need a new rifle though."



Oh,you big liar! You do not need another rifle....!

Sorry! I am just conditioned by my wife that I have to respond with those words whenever I think about a new rifle....

I have never seen that style of Hawken or other plains rifle. Very nice lines.

Johnny $

You are right, I do not "need", but I "absolutely must have"

My modern one.

In action.



My old school one. (havent killed anything with this one yet but its gonna happen.)

Scott, which version of Photoshop did you use on this spike?

Well, you know we can't all be trophy's.

Stoney-

Here's the same deer.
TC Triumph...

Smokepole,

A very nice wood stocked Encore, not many in use. The dead buck should have been pleased to be shot with a classy rifle.

Doc

Joe, he dressed at 280#.
He was actually quite "short"....can't imagine what he'd have gone had he been "full length". Hornady SST made two holes.

I used to build them when I was younger. I made every thing except locks, barrels, butt plates and trigger guards. I bought planks from a kiln in Ohio. $30 would buy a huge curly maple plank that made a bunch of rifles.

This one has a swamped barrel.

Takes forever to carve the things and cut all that brass.

TFF. Nice buck Scott.

nice buck

Some really nice deer here and some really nice rifles. bfrshooter, your work is spectacular. Beats the flinter I built any day.

Just one more picture. My wife with a muzzleloader I built for her from a kit, and her first deer. She was pretty sad about it at first. But she warmed up to the idea after a few minutes. This one was right behind the house.

Here's another that was taken in Lochloosa. T/C 54 Renegade and Maxiball entered in the front of chest, head on, lodged against hip just under the hide. Again a long long time ago.



Peanut gallery for support.

Thank you but your wife's picture is better then my rifle pictures. My daughter was a fantastic shot and we went rabbit hunting. I told here where the rabbit was coming and she shot it as it ran across a trail in the field. She looked just like your wife, very sad. I never got her straightened out over hunting but she loves deer meat.
I hope your wife did not quit hunting. As much as my family and I love all animals, hunting is needed and is no different then buying meat.
You rifle is very well made too and that is what counts. It looks wonderful to me, great job.
Tell your wife to smile, she did great. I would be very proud of her.

Oh, I'm very proud of her. Her big motivation for shooting deer was her dog - which eats all raw meat. Anyway, she soon cheered up but she does not like the killing part of hunting. She shot several more after that one, but finally wounded one and that put the kabosh on her deer hunting. I still try to talk her into it, but not too hard.

She is a pretty darn good shot with a rifle generally, just one time it didn't workout as planned and that was hard on her.

Brent

That is too bad! Wounding something is part of the game - a really, really bad part of the game. I still kick my self over an antelope I wounded 5+ years ago.

My dear wife went with one time...
Now, she says that as long as they come home, cut up, in neatly labled white paper packages she is fine with me hunting. She just does not want to see any dead bodies.

There is hope though! I have asked her to go with me this fall to hunt the Wildcat Hills by Crawford, NE. She loves that area and she is considering it.

Johnny $