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Monday, October 30, 2000
Virginia Rifle (2000)
A Virginia rifle, styled after Simon Lauck and some Winchester gunsmiths. The barrel is a 48" swamped, original 1770-era hand-forged barrel which Ed Rayle reamed and rifled to .58 calibre. It weighs about seven pounds, and shoots well.
Wednesday, October 30, 1996
Brass-Barrel Rifle (1996)
Ever since George Shumway's Rifles of Colonial America was published in 1980, I have admired the famous "brass barrel rifle", apparently made by an unknown in Augusta county, Virginia, circa 1771. I had spent a few years trying to find someone who would make me a brass rifled barrel. Ed Rayle of Grassaway, West Virginia, makes them. I spent four hours with the original, measuring and photographing every inch. This is the result.
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