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Post by Rod on Mar 5, 2012 7:05:50 GMT -7
"also where did you get the patchbox?"
Mark cut it out from a blank that I had gotten from Track. It turned out very nice---I wasn't sure if Mark wanted to try to make that 'hidden under the toeplate' patchbox release, but he went ahead and did it. Talk about a talented guy!
Rod
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Post by sean on Mar 14, 2012 18:10:26 GMT -7
Rod,
First chance I've gotten to reply here, but that is a doozy of a gun. The patch box is straight off one of the guns in Gordon's collection that I have had the pleasure of handling myself. Mark did a fine job with it. It's a gun that was really common back in the day, but will be really unique now.
Sean
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Post by joshwilson on Jun 12, 2012 11:26:47 GMT -7
Good lookin' rifle!
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Post by Ian on Jan 2, 2015 18:45:43 GMT -7
Hi fellers I'm new here but I been ronnyvooin for bout 3 years now and I'm real interested in the Deringer rifles I thought this be a good time to introduce myself. I don't know if you other mountaineers read any of the Titus Bass series by Terry C. Johnston but they portray a man heads out from St. Louis with what's described as a full stock .54 Deringer rifle with a maple stock with am eagle head patchbox and since I read the description I decided I need me one. Where might a man get a stock for such a rifle? I can't seem to find anywhere that has precut blanks for one. Thank ye kindly
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Post by Pare on Jan 3, 2015 13:54:58 GMT -7
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Post by Ian on Jan 3, 2015 14:11:45 GMT -7
I live in Sterling work in Lawton and we have a club out about 4 miles from my house called the Beaver Creek Free Trappers. Another question I got a Dixie poor boy rifle that was built originally back in the 50s I'm not real sure I know it's been restocked and I'd like to find me a set of double lever set triggers since mines only a single lever but I don't know which triggers to buy. Thanks for the info.
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Post by Pare on Jan 3, 2015 18:08:08 GMT -7
One of the guys on here will chime in soon, I'm sure. I own a .62 cal NW trade gun, so I'm not much help.
I live in Sasakwa (Seminole Co.).
Pare-
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Post by Ian on Jan 3, 2015 21:34:44 GMT -7
I'm sure interested to see anything you fellas wanna tell me.
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Post by leatherstocking on Jan 4, 2015 13:38:30 GMT -7
Ian
spent my summers and a few years out of high school in Quanah Tx and we often came to Lawton to shop or ride go carts and cruise for good looking Okie girls......more luck having fun on the go carts than finding any girls. Visited the Wichita Mts as well.
Welcome to the group!
Doug
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Post by Ian on Jan 4, 2015 19:48:29 GMT -7
Thanks Doug I've been out to the Wichita I enjoy hiking back in them hills this state likes to call mountains I was born in Colorado and most of my family lives there or Montana so I know about real mountains too!
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Post by leatherstocking on Jan 4, 2015 23:04:24 GMT -7
I was born in Colorado as well, but moved to northern Idaho almost ten years ago from Pagosa Springs Co.
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Post by Ian on Jan 5, 2015 8:01:24 GMT -7
I was born in Durango and lived in Ignacio my uncle and cousins lived around Clifton went hunting and fishing a few times up on Grand Mesa.
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Post by Mark on Jan 5, 2015 8:22:22 GMT -7
Ian, you will probably not find a precarve stock of the Deringer variety. I went to Know Mountain in Pennsylvania for on of theirs I could modify. Chuck posted photos of my stuff in one of the forums on this site.
Mark Horvat
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Post by marcus on Jan 5, 2015 21:11:35 GMT -7
You will not find a pre-carved stock for the Deringer rifle. The stock for Rod's rifle came from Tiger Hunt as a Figthorn. Probably just as easy to start from a blank.
Marcus AKA Mark Morain
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Post by Rod on Jan 7, 2015 17:19:27 GMT -7
I went with the Figthorn from Tiger Hunt, as it was the closest match to the profile I wanted in a precarve. Bear in mind I initially thought I would complete this myself, before better judgment set in. I've built a pistol from a block of wood, but I came to my senses on the rifle, and turned it over to Mark. Notice that not all Deringer rifles looked the same---his early stuff had a pretty swoopy Roman-nose comb, which had gone nearly straight by the 1840s. I think this was because he probably wasn't personally stocking rifles by that time, by the 1820s Henry Deringer had a full-on rifle factory, with quite a number of men working for him. Things changed over time--big head eagle patchbox vs. small head patchbox vs. later "ghost" patchbox, gradual straightning of the comb, etc. If at all possible, study the photos in Firearms of the Fur Trade, For Trade & Treaty, and Great Gunmakers of the Early West, and you'll see these patterns emerging.
Rod
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