One gentleman from my town builds first rate reproductions of guns from this era, I have considered having him build a replica for me to hunt with.
CHAZ, if I'm not mistaken I thought you liked to take a hands-on approach to your guns. Why don't you build a replica yourself? You could purchase a kit and then tweek it heavily to compare with the gun you have. You could farm out machine work but do the stock work, fitting and metal inlaying yourself. For instance that beautiful copper/brass metalwork on the stock could be cut out from copper/brass sheet metal with a jewelers saw and some careful filing and then inlaid into the stock. Whatthehell apparently you have some gunsmithing in your family genes.
