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I just bought a small action A Henry. Haven't decided weather I'll sell it or use it as a project yet. I'll decide when I get it.

I looked and looked for that Trapdoor and almost didn't see it. Trapdoors are ugly old "Cowboys and Indians" guns, that thing is beautiful, wow!

Mike:

Having handled a small frame Henry I would offer odds that you will keep it. Is it chambered in .360 x 2-1/4"?

Glenn

Of all the different trapdoor sporters and officers models out there I think the “Gove” is the most attractive. Here is a picture of an original from Carlos Gove, Denver, Colorado.

All I can say is WOW Jim! All of them are simply stunning, and a real pleasure to look at!

Thanks for the pictures Mr. Jim --- what a treat !

Jim,
I swung by your old shop back in November. Boy, was I bummed out that it is gone. For those of you that never got to set foot in Muzzleloaders Ect. You really missed out. Jim always had something lurking in that shop somewhere. I learned a lot there, and I do miss my stops at your place when I pass through from Iowa.

I think I have handled or seen almost everything on that webpage, and if I were a betting man, I would wager a large amount that my bullets have slid down the bore of that Rigby Ballard. Still one of my all time favorite rifles. Those trapdoors do grow on me some though.

Keep the pictures of that rifle coming.

Brent

Jim Westberg,

Thanks so much for sharing. While I believe in the inherent beauty and grace of a Trapdoor Military Rifle what you have done on the sporters is incredible. You've brought it to the epitome of elegance in a rifle.

Joe Timberlake

Glen it was originally a 360. But being from England it's been bored out to .410 shotgun like a lot of nice rifles. It's easier to keep on a shotgun certificate than get a rifle permit. What I don't understand it that he could of keep it as an obsolete caliber and not had to touch it. Maybe he wanted to use it for something. Thats why it will most likely be restored.

Hello Gert,

Commiserations of the Season my friend, lol.

Just forward planning at the moment. Engineering drawings of any Single Shot Rifle Action would be handy. I know of course of some that are available from the ASSRA Archive, but British designed and built SSRA plans are very rare indeed.

Three or four decades ago I wrote to all the British Gunmakers still in operation asking if they still had plans of their old single shot rifles (both sporting and target) but I came up against a blank wall. If they had them they weren't letting on, probably on the offchance I went into production and took business away from them.

I wonder how long it is since a British Gunmaker actually produced a falling block action or other other SS design (apart from the Martini). I wouldn't mind betting that it's getting on towards a century.

Harry