Hi new member here, first post in fact, so please bear with me until I get acquainted with the site, I do recognize a few folks here however. 

Anyway I chose this topic for a first post because it is my main interest, building and shooting Highwalls! I have built two from scratch, a full size heavy barrel example in 45-90 and a scaled down much smaller version in 22 Magnum, I am currently about 70% or so finished with my third attempt which is another full size version but lighter. 

These were built from 4140HT stock using photos, measurements and notes taken from an original but I made several internal modifications to eliminate the external screw heads and sear pin ends on the receiver sides. I love these Single Shot rifles and look forward to spending some time here hopefully sharing ides!

My first attempt was the 45-90 and I thought I would make a few style changes but I wasn't very impressed with the result so I won't do that again! The "Baby Highwall" is much more true to the original design although I did use the same mods that hides the lower tang/trigger group attaching screws and has the sear mounted on a carrier held in slots similar to the lower tang, these mods eliminate the screw heads and sear pin ends from appearing on the receiver sides.

I'm not much of a photographer but maybe the pics will come out ok,

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The little one,

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Both of these rifles were built on a 14x40 lathe using a milling attachment and a few other shop made accessories to do various tasks and a great deal of the receiver contouring was done using files and stones. All in all an extremely fun project and I am anxious to see how the third one tuns out, I learned a lot on these two and I hope to be able to refine the details on this current project.

Welcome aboard and awesome work Radkins!

Hi Radkins;
Yes, I've admired your work on a couple other forums - very nicely done.
I'm working on one as well - haven't posted pictures because its such an enormous amount of work and so time consuming, I didn't know if I'd ever finish it.
If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be interested to see the mods you did to hide the screw / pin holes. Too late for my current one as I've already drilled my holes and have my lower tang mostly completed. But maybe I'll do another someday - after I recover from this one. 

cuslog wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2015 at 10:29am:




I know what you mean about the doubts early on but hang in there!

I wish I had of taken pictures of the progress but I neglected to do that, I need to disassemble the small rifle to make a minor adjustment to the trigger pull anyway so I will try to get up some pics of the mods I made, probably should start a new thread however so I will try and do that in the next day or so.



What are the details on your build, do you have a thread started on it? What caliber? I would be VERY interested in seeing this project!

Rick, the upper front face of the block is angled from the rest of the shape to be square to the bore. It makes a pretty clever item when you figure out how much works off of the block. If you can get somebody with an original to break it down (it only takes a few minutes to take down and replace), you'll be better off for the look. Have fun and let us see how it goes.

Calledflyer and Radkins, thanks so much, I knew that I was getting ahead of myself....

Also, the photo makes it really clear! That was nice of you to post it! 

I truly wish I knew someone with a rifle that I could examine, but I don't, so drawings/plans, and with the help of you folks here will work fine.

Thanks again!!

I used to belong to ASSRA in the late '80's and enjoyed the magazines, still have them somewhere in a box, along with all my Home Shop Machinists mags, too.

I also wish that I had the slotter for the Bridgeport where I used to work, we used it to square up the rear of the one piece trigger guards/bottom metal we made for bolt action rifles, and would now be most handy...