Gentlemen & 'The Ladies".......If you have been reading that Manificent Magazine The Shooting Sportsman, Mr Steven Dodd Hughes, wrote a splendid 2 part artical several issues ago, about using a Barreled Action that he aquiredon one of his "Trips to Foreign Places that make nice shiny guns...in the white'"You may wish to ask him, thru this medium if ha might have some advise for a 'Budding Gunmaker" I have a couple of English 'Guns in the white" also couple of Spanish ones, but the English ones with York& Wallin Locks are too close to my Olde Gunmakers Heart to part with......but as I'm getting close to Seventy""(Good point there is Peter Nelson is 6 mths older...Ken Hunt is 3yrs older, Chapman is also 3yrs ahead, Des Mills is really'Old"...But if you want to 'Google' Some British Gumbakers" there are several"Dudes with CNC machines making all manner of Dupes' that can be purchased" In Kit Form"(I, as a LondonGunDude' from the 1950s,Just wish we had had the advantage of The Magnificent Men With There Flying(sorry, cnc machine's) But as Abe Chaber and I discussed just last week, A Gunsmith today just aint worth his'Title"\' unless he can push a 12"bastard across a block of 'O1'oil hardening and make that piece finally fit into a HA Linder or a Boss12b c 1899 and it dupes the orig.Perfectly"..This has probably made a few fingers start 'Twitching"..Look forward to some Feedback' McIntosh told me our"Gunbook with Humor" has just gone over the 5000 sold.Hope it still brings a few'Smiles'..c/c aka/ dt.
