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Gentlemens:

Thank you all very much for the kind words.

Mr. Escape': Impressionist paintings? Interesting. The only paintings that ever filled me with impure thoughts is the work of Van Gogh.

PeteM: The metal work is by the fine folks at Mook Machine Works. (that would be me.)

Marc: I believe Mr. Mann will have it at Reno in January. It has a skeleton plate, but not one of ours. I'll get a picture of that later. The barrel is from Green Mountain. I hold their large caliber barrels in high regard and use them on my personal target rifles. Color case by John Gillette at Classic Guns. Bluing is by the exceptionally handsome and dignified folks at Mook Machine.

Glenn

Wait a second. You mean that gun was sitting at John's shop overnight all by itself? Next time, call me, I will stand guard.

I really like the transition from hexagon to round. That is very special all on it's own. Don't believe I have ever seen it done that way before. Truly a gun to be proud of in all it's elegance.

Pete

Pete, if you are going to be at Northbrook this weekend look me up because I owe you a beverage of your choice for being the straight man in the "lets get Glenn" group. The "wedding band transition" has been the cause of some "Mook moments"

Glenn did an exceptionally fine job on this rifle and I am proud to call it mine (or at least the caretaker of it for the coming years).

Glenn mentioned the wonderful scratching that Ken did on the rifle and it needs to be seen to fully appreciate how nice it is. I had originally planned to french gray the action but when I saw the great colors that John Gillette did I just couldn't bring myself to remove them. Besides my wife also thought the colors looked great and thought it would be "kinda dumb" to remove them. I listen to my wife!

I don't know how many of you follow the black powder rifle game but Glenn tied for first place in Master Class at Raton last summer. Besides he's a pretty good metalsmith.

UP-date on Mr. Glenn. I just got the word that he took first place at Effingham 1000 yd shoot last week-end using a near duplicat of this rifle sans wedding band. Ken

Very, very nice!

Gentlemens:

Here are a couple of pictures of the south end. The butt plate was still rusting when the last pictures were taken. <g>






Regards,

Glenn

As promised, a poor but sincere attempt to capture Mr. Hurst's fine work. Pictures do not do it justice.

Glenn

I am sitting here looking at a b&w picture of F. Wesson Long Range Rifle Number 1, serial #3. The original has nothing on this rifle. Of all his designs, this one is truly classic.

Doug, I am sure if I will be at Northbrook or not. If I go, I will find you to claim that beverage.

Pete

That is about as nice a effort that I have seen in a long time. There is not a single thing that I would want to change on the gun and it is a pure delight to look at. Each person who worked on it did an outstanding job.

Marc ---- just what is AR ? If it is a web site I would like to see it. Ken