Vall, here is another ballard for you. Along with a few other of my browner guns.




The top rifle is a Cogwell damascus barreled rifle about 56 or 58 caliber. Not in the best of condidtion, but definitely shootable.

The next is a god-knows-who muzzleloader about 32 caliber that I really like even though everything about it is bad. Hell the tang is even narrower (much) on the top than on the bottom. God couldn't inlet that thing properly. The lock is total junk and the barrel is rotted but I love the old ash stock and I am seriously contemplating rescue. I think a .45 or .50 caliber reline might be doable. Definitely not worthy, but possibly doable.

Then there is the #3 Ballard Gallery rifle. All original except the bore was rotted so it was relined and the rear sight was missing so Roy made a drop dead ringer for an original - except for the vernier scale that I asked him to put a on it.

Last, my old Hopkins and Allen 722 take down. I loved that rifle when I was a kid, although it did not have the forearm then. I always believed that if I could see a target, I could hit it with that rifle - though it might have taken me a box or two of ammo. I eventually wore it out, so it was relined and a friend discovered an original forearm for it and grabbed it for me.

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)
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