To all the Gentlemen that posted your Lone Star's - invoices - pictures and catalogs to this thread - I Sincerely Thank You. I never envisioned we would have so many of Dave's rifles and supporting documentation identified in one thread. Absolutely, not a complete listing but without a doubt, the most informative composite listing known to date.
Bear with me I have not individually listed all the rifles in the first post yet. My intent is to do this.
I would like to continue the thread, because there are many questions about Dave's rifles that are unknown. Maybe we can fill in the blanks:
* Barrel sources - known to be Green Mountain & Badger
* Actions - his source of them? Interesting, there are several variations in addition to clones of original Remington #1 actions ...
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) * Did Dave make his own butt stocks & forearms ... or were they subcontracted?
* Butt Plates - subcontracted from who or did he make them?
* Checkering - subcontracted or did he do his own?
And my mystery is - why does my 0044 have a brass trigger guard and who did Dave obtain it from. It is an anomaly compared to all his other rifles he made! And why the original owner put a cheap Italian vernier on the rifle with 4mm tapped base screws and a Lyman 17A foresight... is beyond me