This is a fully iron mounted Virginia longrifle of the late flint period that I made in 2004 as my personal offhand target rifle. It has features found on Virginia longrifles from Rockbridge County into Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee, but is of a style mostly of my own creation. It has a hand forged butt piece and guard, and all the other mounts are hand made from steel sheet. The barrel is browned. The lock was polished and aged, and all the other mounts were blackened and aged. The 40 caliber, straight, Green Mountain barrel is 13/16″ across the flats and 42″ long. A White Lightning liner is installed. The lock is a Chambers Late Ketland. The longrifle has Davis double set triggers. The stock is a piece of moderately curly, quartersawn, red maple. The stock is entirely scraped and burnished and the rifle is generally finished in a workman like manner. The stock is stained with aqua fortis and finished in oil. I have fitted the hickory ramrod with a plain sheet steel ferrule on the breech end that accepts a hand turned wiper made for the rifle.
This longrifle was awarded a Blue ribbon for Craftsmanship in the Journeyman class at the 2005 Dixons GunMakers Fair.
The technical details:
| Stock: | Moderately curly, quartersawn, Red Maple |
| Lock: | Chambers Late Ketland |
| Barrel: | Green Mountain 42″, 40 caliber, 13/16″ straight with Chambers White Lightning liner |
| Trigger: | Davis double set triggers |
| Mounts: | Hand forged steel and steel sheet |
If I can make something like this for you, use the Contact form to send me an e-mail. This is about the simplest gun that I am prepared to build. I will make a rifle like this for $3500 including shipping. That price would include either a swamped barrel or a match grade straight barrel. A four piece patch box would be another $200. A little additional carving, engraving or silver wire inlay would be $300 each. You could knock off $500 for no patchbox and rear entry thimble. A similar rifle with cast brass mounts would be $350 less.
