"The barrel is a .50 caliber swamped, square rifled Green Mountain that I purchased from Tip Curtis while visiting him in Tennessee quite some time back. The stock wood is an excellent piece of hard maple from Tiger Hunt and the lock is one of Jim Kibler’s. The rest of the components are various odds and ends I made or have had around for quite some time. The parts have been on or under my workbench since 2015, but I finally had the time to finish this rifle. The sterling silver oval soldered to the patch box door is engraved with “Psalm 63”. It has always been one of my favorites Psalms. There is a great scene in the movie “Patton” where George C. Scott quotes it…and I believe it still applies to the world today as well as it did for Patton during World War II and for the past three thousand years.
The entire build is chronicled here: https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=86494.0
Copy and photography by David Crisalli.
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