John Armstrong (1985)

Yet another "silver" Armstrong recreation. At this time, as far as I was concerned, John Armstrong (1775-1842) of Emmitsburg, MD, was the finest "Golden Age" gunsmith.

Scaled-down Schreyer (1985)

A fellow at Friendship was trying to produce a boy's rifle, no doubt inspired by the kiddie's match I helped to start on the Primitive range. After some horse trading, I agreed to make a prototype. This is it, with a .40 calibre barrel, held by my son, Andrew.

Left-Handed Isaac Haines (1984)

Isaac Haines, who lived and worked in Strassburg (southeast of Lancaster) was a great (and original) gunsmith. An American customer had bought an Isaac Haines kit ten years previous, and asked me to finish it. This was the second time that I had to mirror-image the decoration (the Henry Albright was the first). A real challenge - but - once the lock and buttplate are correctly inletted, it seems to go all right.

It was also the second time I had the opportunity to work on a domed lid patch box.

Silver John Armstrong (1983)

I met Dan Hartzler at Friendship back in 1978, and we became friends. Thanks to Dan, I first visited the Kindig collection and photographed fine rifles in other private collections. I made him a recreation of the famous "silver" Armstrong rifle in .54 calibre. Dan has hunted and shot most of the big game aimals with this rifle.