Here is my recently refurbished Hepburn.
Wood from CPA, fitted & finished by Millard Hixson.
Original 40-65 barrel lined with a TJ liner by John Taylor.
Case-color by Classic Gun Ltd.
Engraving (excellent) & bluing (poor - must be redone) by Dale Woody.
Rear sight by Kermit Hoke & front by Lee Shaver.

contact Tim Smith-Lyons,  member and does a great job

Looks pretty nice! Can we have a closeup of Dale's engraving? Had Dale do my Hepburn also, and he did engraving, bluing, and casehardening. All turned out super on mine.

Nevermind; saw it on your other post.

Glen, love that Hepburn. Still thinking about a .44?

Indeed. The 38-50 has maple wood that is out being checkered at the moment. It was a rifle that someone had "varmintized" into a .219Z at some point and lots of extra wood that was removed. Should have back by spring so can post some pic's.

Here's a better pic of the wood with the cheek piece removed. CPA provided a very nice chunk of timber. That's a Woody's Boxes 40cal cleaning rod thru the bore to measure so the comb height can be set on the maple stock going on Hepburn #2.

BPCR Rules for silhoutte stock:

(f) Stock: Forearm must be attached and shall be of traditional design not to exceed 2 inches in width, cannot extend below the line of the bottom of the receiver or base of trigger guard, and no attachments will be allowed on the forearm. Measured froth the centerline of the bore, the drop at the heel shall not exceed 2 3/4 inches; drop at toe shall not exceed 8 inches. No portion of the rifle stock behind the rifle action shall be higher than 3/4 inch below the centerline of the bore. The butt shall not be longer than 5 1/4 inches top to bottom. Cheek pieces are permitted, but no roll over. Pistol grips are permissible, but no flared or hand-contoured styles. Crescent-style buttplates are permissible, but cannot be over 1 1/8 inch deep when measured froth a straight line from points of the buttplate. Commercial recoil pads are permissible. Stocks and forearms must be made of natural wood and must be in keeping with designs of stocks of the era. (See Rule 3.18.)

I don't mind the drop on an original Hepburn stock, but the very narrow buttplate is not comfortable in any heavier loads! Same for that buttplate on Rolling Block rifles. They are just too narrow to distribute the recoil over my shoulder, and I've had more than one occasion of a bruised shoulder from original Hepburn and Rolling Block buttplates when shooting.
I went with a larger checkered steel buttplate on my restoration, with a Crossno silhouette style stock, which is extremely comfortable, even with heavy .45-70 loads.

Coming together. If this couple of feet of snow ever melts off, will get started on load-development. Probably won't get to checker until next fall. Probably take a bit more off the comb at that time.