A medium sized "working man's horn" with an applied antler tip: just finished.

Attic Find

Neat old rifle even though it is missing a lot of parts. I think it was probably a flintlock and possibly converted to a side hammer. The straight 1" octagonal barrel is 34 1/2" long and has a front barrel lug. So it was a full stock. The rifling is totally gone except for at the very end of the muzzle. It mics out at .60 inside the rifling but further down in the bore around .540. No charge in bore and only about 1/4" of breech plug threads(guessing by putting ramrod down the barrel). The butt is very small and parch box is only 3/8" deep. The trigger actually comes back to contact sear arm instead of up. No makers mark, just and x on the bottom flat of barrel. There are actually two inlays(I forgot to take a picture of the small triangular silver wrist inlay). Flash guard tacked in behind breech.

#9: "Double Box" Rifle

 

This is the first rifle I have done a scraped finish on and forged the mounts for. The only purchased parts are the 44" Rice 40 caliber A weight swamped barrel, deluxe large Siler lock, and the screws. The trigger pull is 14" and the stock has a 1/4" cast-off. Stock wood is curly maple with a nitric acid stain and a linseed oil finish. I added a coat of bear oil prior to taking the pictures, so the wood may appear glossy. Steel is antiqued with cold blue and bleach. The lock I modified a bit and also turned the screw heads down some. Had just enough light to fire off a few rounds and it is grouping great, but  hitting low. So the front sight will be filled down considerably. The stock still needs some burnishing and more oil....Then on to another one

Steel "double box" and modified the siler lock

The patch box is a double cavity box I formed from sheet steel. The deluxe large siler lock had an octagonal pan and file work on the tail end of the lock plate that where modified. Everything is still in the "rough" 

Trigger guard "raised" some stock mods and start of patchbox

Larger pictures- as requested

New Rifle in the works-40 cal.