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I added pics to your post at the ASSRA site.

AKMike:

Thank you. It is very kind of you to offer. I would like to photograph and make drawings of the stalking safety and would share them with anyone who recognises the one true path to enlightenment.

A stalking rifle without a stalking safety? Egad man, you must be joking!

Glenn

Mr Fewless,
If it'd help someone. Tear that thing down and take all sorts of measurements. I'm sure that Alex would be honored to see that his design is still being built!
Mike

BTW,, Please put it back together when your done! :D;)

lets see the pics boys....I had hopes of finishing this sucker up someday. Now with all this pressure you guys piled upon me I'm unsure if I can handle it. Pictures, we need pictures. I need inspiration.
Steve

I put up a couple of pics at the ASSRA site for you. I'm sure that Mr Fewless can do some better ones of it for you.
Mike

Glenn ---- Steve Earle called tonight and said he has worked out all the problems of a rebounding hammer for the new (soon to be) mid-range Wesson. He has six frames off to the guy who does his wire EDM work. Said all he has to do now is program for the hammer & lever & make holding fixtures for same. He still hasn't profiled the action but that isn't much (he said). I told him to hold out one of those actions so that I could draw lines indicating where I feel it should be slabed like a 94 Win or hiwall. He thinks he'll have one by this summer before the Raton nationals. Ken

Gentlemens:

For anyone who wondered what we have been babbling about, here are a couple pictures of an Alexander Henry rifle with a stalking safety. The safety is a sliding bolt that locks the hammer in the half cocked position. The idea is to keep the hammer from catching on a branch or vine or such and accidently getting pulled back to full cock, or worse, being pulled back and released to fire the rifle.

The first picture shows the hammer bolted, the second free. The last picture is of the inletting for the lock.









Steve, I disassembled the bolt and have about 40 pictures of it, too many to send via email. If'n you want I can burn them on a CD and post them to you.

Glenn

Glenn, I have a pair of stalking safeties on my Lang double rifle and to tell you the truth, more useless accoutrements, I've never seen. Well, that may be a bit of an overstatement, but I sure don't consider them "stalking" safeties. Having to switch them off and then cock the hammers too, just doesn't make sense to me. Were they installed at full cock, they would make much more sense to me.

I'ver tried cocking the hammers with a branch - and, let's just say, I think this is a solution in search of a problem.

They do look cool though.
Brent

Glenn,
Either post a cd, or email me less pics. Which ever is easier for you. The weather forecast is great today, off to the range to shoot the little Henry, a Gibbs farky and a martini. I wish it was all fun, but the Gibbs and the Martini need the sights filed. Its gonna break my heart to sell the little Gibbs, its on a very small action, comes in at 6.5 lbs and is a best quality gun. As my mentor in this game is fond of saying, "I can't own them all".
Steve