Post by Backstrap on Jun 13, 2004 4:00:12 GMT -5
Hey Ruger, in case you do not know what to call that particular Rifle,it look's like a semi-
Hybrid to me, the stocked section is a Tennessee mountain rifle style, with semi-traditional hardware, just brass , most traditional Tennesse's are full
stock's, but the entire shape of the stock, and the toe and butt-plate have it's liniage in
the Tennesse tradition, it's embellished more than most Tenn's, most have browned steel hardware, it also has shade's of Hawkin from the
ram-rod hole on out to the end of the barrel! is it a 42 incher, or shorter? Most Tennessee
Rifles are in the 42 inch barrel range! That is a nice looking gun! I have one my dad built
me in 1979, from the mid 70's to the late 80's those gun's were how my dad made his
living, Mine is a full stock version, in maple, that is called a slim-jim model, it looks like
your's but a lot skinnier, and mine is a .40 cal with a very rare H & H round bottom
barrel, probably the best old school ML barrel's made, mine has a silor lock and silor
doubleset trigger's and my dad, did these gun's from a large maple blank all hand made
for TVA, now called Tennesse valley Manufactering, now located in Corinth Miss.
owned by Jack Garner, a good friend of my family, mine wears home cast's trigger
gaurd (tenn's have square looking gaurd's) and thimbles, butt-plate, & toe plate,
mine is very plain looking compared to your's, I just have a "bear-grease" hole on
the lock side, and it is the gun I won the Jr's National Title with at the U.S. National
matches held in Friendship Indiana, I still hunt with mine every year, and have taken
at least 200 deer with it if not more, they are fine Rifle's, I do not like to knock the
new style gun's, but when I was young all there was, was homemade, or kit gun's,
or the old Harrison Richards model's, they where the first "modern" looking ones! I
still use an old skrimshawed powder-horn, and leather possible's bag, I even hoist
that almost 6 ft long gun into the tree stand, and it will shoot with any
modern gun out to 100 yards, any day, they have a ballace to them, I actually prefer
to shoot off-hand with my Tenn. Mountain Rifle, than any modern gun, it's as steady
as a rock I have thought about buying a "NEW" ML but I cannot break with tradition
My dad and I carry these long gun's around the camp, and people that are new to ML'ing
freak out, they have never seen a hand made rifle of that type quality, my dad's is
fancy, with the grade A, tiger-stripe maple stock, but done in the purest tradition, but he
has a patch-box, where mine is a poor-boy model with just the hole on the lock side!
I just thought I'd tell you the origins of that style gun in case you did not know that it
was a half stock Tennessee Mountain Rifle with several other styles of embelishment's on it,
it's similar to what a lot of us poor southern boy's killed all them Yank's with in the Big war!
Until we could upgrade to a more standard cartridge, but you would be surprised how many
of those type gun's fought in the war of 1812, and for Texas independance, and the
Indian war's in the south, and the big one! You got a keeper there! I'd shoot it though!
For a good target load I'd use about 60 grains of 3f powder, and a greased patched .451 ball
don't ever use pyrodex or any of that other crap in it! I hunt with 70 grains of 3f, and get right
over 2100 FPS out of my .40 caliber! They are awesome shooters! And that .45 ball will be on
the opposite side of a deer you shoot under the skin, about the size of a quater, I have a huge
collection from the deer I have taken!
Roll Tide!
Lee
Hybrid to me, the stocked section is a Tennessee mountain rifle style, with semi-traditional hardware, just brass , most traditional Tennesse's are full
stock's, but the entire shape of the stock, and the toe and butt-plate have it's liniage in
the Tennesse tradition, it's embellished more than most Tenn's, most have browned steel hardware, it also has shade's of Hawkin from the
ram-rod hole on out to the end of the barrel! is it a 42 incher, or shorter? Most Tennessee
Rifles are in the 42 inch barrel range! That is a nice looking gun! I have one my dad built
me in 1979, from the mid 70's to the late 80's those gun's were how my dad made his
living, Mine is a full stock version, in maple, that is called a slim-jim model, it looks like
your's but a lot skinnier, and mine is a .40 cal with a very rare H & H round bottom
barrel, probably the best old school ML barrel's made, mine has a silor lock and silor
doubleset trigger's and my dad, did these gun's from a large maple blank all hand made
for TVA, now called Tennesse valley Manufactering, now located in Corinth Miss.
owned by Jack Garner, a good friend of my family, mine wears home cast's trigger
gaurd (tenn's have square looking gaurd's) and thimbles, butt-plate, & toe plate,
mine is very plain looking compared to your's, I just have a "bear-grease" hole on
the lock side, and it is the gun I won the Jr's National Title with at the U.S. National
matches held in Friendship Indiana, I still hunt with mine every year, and have taken
at least 200 deer with it if not more, they are fine Rifle's, I do not like to knock the
new style gun's, but when I was young all there was, was homemade, or kit gun's,
or the old Harrison Richards model's, they where the first "modern" looking ones! I
still use an old skrimshawed powder-horn, and leather possible's bag, I even hoist
that almost 6 ft long gun into the tree stand, and it will shoot with any
modern gun out to 100 yards, any day, they have a ballace to them, I actually prefer
to shoot off-hand with my Tenn. Mountain Rifle, than any modern gun, it's as steady
as a rock I have thought about buying a "NEW" ML but I cannot break with tradition
My dad and I carry these long gun's around the camp, and people that are new to ML'ing
freak out, they have never seen a hand made rifle of that type quality, my dad's is
fancy, with the grade A, tiger-stripe maple stock, but done in the purest tradition, but he
has a patch-box, where mine is a poor-boy model with just the hole on the lock side!
I just thought I'd tell you the origins of that style gun in case you did not know that it
was a half stock Tennessee Mountain Rifle with several other styles of embelishment's on it,
it's similar to what a lot of us poor southern boy's killed all them Yank's with in the Big war!
Until we could upgrade to a more standard cartridge, but you would be surprised how many
of those type gun's fought in the war of 1812, and for Texas independance, and the
Indian war's in the south, and the big one! You got a keeper there! I'd shoot it though!
For a good target load I'd use about 60 grains of 3f powder, and a greased patched .451 ball
don't ever use pyrodex or any of that other crap in it! I hunt with 70 grains of 3f, and get right
over 2100 FPS out of my .40 caliber! They are awesome shooters! And that .45 ball will be on
the opposite side of a deer you shoot under the skin, about the size of a quater, I have a huge
collection from the deer I have taken!
Roll Tide!
Lee
