doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com I bought a Ballard action.

Gary, thanks for posting that for me... maybe someday I can figure out how to do it myself on this site.

Mike, it's probably just as well I've never been married as I am sure any wife I would ever find would have that and worse to say about my projects (dare I say, "flights of fancy?") The biggest problem with most of my projects is the duration of the actual project.

Finally to my long suffering friend, Joe; public thanks for your efforts on behalf of one of my flights of fancy. This was a bedraggled and mismatched a set of parts as I have gathered, and he put them into usable order... no small feat!

Regards,
Charlie the Frog

Interesting, tell me about the lever, looks more Remington than Ballard or Winchester.

Michael, when I was gifted the breech block assembly by Charlie Dell, the basis of that lever was in the same cigar box. Joe added the last part of the tail (I can't recall exactly how much was already there, but he added some, I think.) The low resolution of the picture masks just how rough it actually is, and I will have a lot of filing and sanding to do before it is ready to finish. The same is true of the stock... it just is rough turned.

Joe can tell you better than I can, but there is a steel casting available from Track of the Wolf that can be welded to a stubbed off lever. I'm always willing to pick up a broken lever or one someone has "improved" too much to be salvaged otherwise.

Froggie

Thanks, I'll have to look at some pictures of Carlie's Peregrine(sp?) actions. It just looks familiar somehow.

I miss Charlie getting on me about my bullet lube and every time he did I would send him another nice group shot with it ;-).

One of the good guys for sure.

Now I remember where I saw that lever before!

A nice lever can be a wonderful thing to behold. When I first saw this lever it looked just like a piece of 1" steel plate.

Here's a rough casting like the one I welded to Charlie's, and another similar daintier finished one cast by anothet source.

The dainty one is for a wall and has (temporarily) graced several of my builds over the years.
Regards, Joe

The "dainty" one is like the ones from a fellow named Shelton, IIRC, who advertised them back about 1993 or so in the old ASSRA News (pre-Journal.) I've got one on my pet offhand rifle, a takedown high-wall in .32-40. I have another squirreled away for use in a similar offhand rimfire project which my never come to fruition now that the FrankenBallard lives.

Michael, you are right about the Walker lever... Shelton advertised them as being modeled after the Remington Walker Hepburns, but AFAIK only cast them with upper parts to fit the Winchester coil spring high-walls. The fancy offhand lever that was available for the late, lamented Peregrine bore a strong resemblance to both of them, and even if it wasn't inspired by the earlier levers, a good idea is a good idea, don't you agree?

Froggie

"a good idea is a good idea, don't you agree?"

Could not agree more, I think the Walker style lever is the most elegant of all the levers.

The Shelton lever was as close as I could get at the time to the original Winchester Laudensack lever, so that was what I put into the project. It turns out that my hand fits that lever like it was made for me, so even when I got the chance to get a regular copy of the Laudensack I kept the Shelton. My high-wall schuetzen rifle is not original (except for a large percentage of original parts, of course) so I went with what felt good and never looked back. I only wish they were still available to install on a couple of more projects!

Charlie the Frog

Froggie If you got one. Have some castings made.?? Whitey