George Shreyer (1979)

My second Shreyer rifle - again with interchangeable barrels, .50 calibre rifled, and .55 calibre smoothbore. I didn't know it then, but George Shreyer was a Mason.

The Boy's Rifle (1979)

My elder son Rob, being about eleven years old, needed a rifle, so I made him a .40 calibre scaled-down version of an early Jacob Dickert rifle. At Friendship, we started the kiddie's match on the Primitive range, which became quite popular.

The follow photographs come to us courtesy of the rifle's current owner, the Provincial Museum of Alberta (Maurice F. V. Doll).

Silver John Armstrong (1978)

By now, I had photos of the original, so I used my second Paris swamped barrel. I pulled a Beck trigger guard out of the parts box by mistake, and could not get the gun to come out right. Now, it lives in Germany.

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.