oh, as to hours I keep very close track, so I can accurately state it took a coon's age. Actually , it was about 120 hours as I recall without going to my records, perhaps a few more with the prep I did...
And Geno it looks EXACTLY like an original with the exception of the standing leaf mentioned later... This brings up an interesting point in that his is the third Large Gibbs I have worked on and they have all had similar, but slightly different engraving patterns.
On this Rifle the top and bottom tangs were replaced by Fisher because the original hole had been drilled slightly off angle/center,and the trigger guard tang had been broken (by jumbo?) and repaired with solder and rivet at one point, and I added a warthog ivory triangle to the standing leaf at Fishers direction for easy target aquisition as this gun will be getting much heavy use in the field quite soon and we did not want the aforementioned jumbo getting another go at it. It is a joy to shoulder this rifle, it comes up quite smartly and gives one a distinct feeling of omnipitonce as the front bead finds the target.
