“I recently spent several months in Italy designing firearms for Pedersoli Mfg. Co.”
                                                               
“This included an in-line muzzleloader based on the rolling block action.”

Perhaps someone knows just what type of firearms Mr. Higgenbotham designed for Pedersoli, other than the in-line muzzleloader based on the rolling block action, which is the only one mentioned in the catalogue posted. Perhaps he had a hand in the design of the Pedersoli rolling block cartridge rifle, which looks to me to be stylistically different from the sporting and target No.1 rolling blocks produced by Remington. Perhaps someone also knows when he was in Italy designing firearms for Pedersoli.

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In the example of Dave's catalog it says that his guns are "with addition of American made actions, now 100% American made". Were they at some point earlier made partially from Italian parts?

It was my understanding that the customer could supply an action to Lone Star to build a rifle on or modify first before doing so.

You could get those Italian actions throughout the 1980's from Navy Arms, either by themselves, barreled, or in a kit to be made into a rifle.

Besides the brass trigger guard, one characteristic of the one action I looked at was that there was a gap between the hammer and the breechblock such that the breech could almost be opened with the hammer on half-cock.

I don't know whether this was some gunsmith's modification (the rifle was an unmarked .50-70) or whether that was the way the Italians made it.

Maybe this will resolve the discussion whether Dave used foreign parts for his Lone Star rifles - then stopped at a point in time:

Action and Trigger Guard, Serial 0044
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Pedersoli Action and Trigger Guard: Picture in BPC News, Summer 2016, pg 24
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The actions-brass trigger guards and triggers are look-a-likes!
The difference with the one in BPC News is the face of the receiver is vertical and the 0044 is canted forward

For final support, to determine if the Lone Star actions are Pedersoil: drop the forearm determine if there is a witness mark on the lower face of the action
In the definitive BPC News article by Kenny Durham - note the following words:
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Since Dave used non Pedersoli barrels and if the Lone Star action is a Pedersoli, there will be a witness mark on the lower front of the action
Lone Star 0044 has this witness mark!

Vall: Looking an the photos closer again, I don't believe there is any difference between the 2 actions in their shape
Canted forward - angled 
Face of the receiver - front of the receiver

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Percival did your rifle come from Ca. it looks similar to the one a good friend AC Gould on this site had built and then sold to another friend here. If it is indeed the same rifle it was an an extremly good shooting rifle and a very beautiful one at that.

JLouis

Thank you sir and not being a big fan of the Rolling Blocks this one is trully an exception and the pictures don't do it real justice. It is an absoulutly beautful work of craftmanship at its finest and it shoots good to boot as I have witnessed on several occasions and congratulations on being the new owner.

JLouis