John Phillip Beck ("The Lion Beck", 2001)

Finally, I finished for my younger son, Andrew, a recreation of the famous "lion" Beck, with a .45 calibre octagon to round Getz barrel. He shoots it very well.

Jaeger Rifle (1999)

Erwin Tschanz's rifle. Ten years after I finished Ernie's rifle, I made one for his older brother Irwin. In that decade, I had learned a few things. Irwin's face adorns the sliding wooden lid. Iron butt plate, trigger guard, side plate, polished and engraved. Tim Chambers' round plate English lock, swamped .54 Getz barrel. That's Erwin's face in silver inlayed in the sliding wooden patchbox lid.

George Shreyer (1978)

I had bought an original (circa 1780) smooth rifle by George Shreyer, of Hanover, Pennsylvania which I decided to duplicate. Don Getz made me two interchangeable octagon to round 48 3/8" barrels - .45 calibre rifled and .50 calibre smoothbore. I took the original to Ron Griffie, and we laid it on plank after plank until we found the matching tiger stripe. With the rifle barrel, the gun weighed about six pounds. I killed my first deer with this rifle.