Hello all,

Longtime lurker, first time poster.   

I am interested in a custom single shot rifle - cartridge TBD, but I am looking to build a rifle around cartridge .30cal or under capable of propelling bullets with a good ballistic coefficient, driven at subsonic velocities.  Straight wall cases appeal, and I am mulling over the Stevens .25-21, .270 Ren, and some of the obsolete .22 straight-walled centerfires.

In my searching I have come across CPA and Fenris Wolf.  These are toward the top of the potential budget.  I am wondering what people think of the two makers' rifles.  Aslo interested in potential alternative makers that would be in the sale price range ~ $2,500.  I am open to makers in Canada and the U.S.

Thanks so much,

John

Schuetzendave wrote on Dec 6^th, 2015 at 7:50pm:


I am in Canada.

Are Ron's barrels that much better than alternatives?  I assume that the total cost of action + wood + Ron Smith barrel and chambering + bluing will exceed the cost of a CPA.  Do you have a sense of how much the barrel, chambering, wood finishing and bluing would be?

John 

CPA makes a fine rifle (Stevens 44 1/2).
C. Sharps Arms makes a fine rifle (1879 Rem-Hepburn, 1885 Win, 1874, 1875 & 1877 Sharps).
Shiloh Sharps makes a fine rifle (1874 & 1877 Sharps).
DZ Arms makes a fine rifle (1879 Rem-Hepburn).
Steve Earle (Frank Wesson & Fraser actions) makes a fine action (don't think he builds the complete rifle).
RKS, Kreiger, Classic & Bartlein all make fine cut-rifled barrels.
Green Mountain, Douglas, Shilen, Lilja, & Hart make fine button rifled barrels.
C. Sharps will sell you a complete action that you can then have barreled with your favorite flavor of barrel.
You can shop around and likely find a .22, .25, .27 or .30cal Kreiger or Bartlein or the button-rifled barrel on someone's shelf (including the manufacturer). Less likely with RKS as his is a considerably smaller shop. 
Lots of choices.
Enjoy!!

You could also order a barrel directly from Ron Smith and have him send it directly to CPA.  My new CPA has an RKS barrel that they put on.

Chris.

gunlaker wrote on Dec 8^th, 2015 at 7:54pm:


Ron did that at least twice for me to Meacham and John King. had 

westerner wrote on Dec 8^th, 2015 at 11:07pm:


Maybe we should reconstitute the old BP LR Pig Wars Trophy?  Canada would dominate with their wringers  , the RKS  grand children and their RKS Family Barrels    I think Sue Miller is the only American to ever get a Family Barrel, isn't she?