A friend of mine was talking about a Shiloh he got from Bill Bagwell and I mentioned that he helped me a lot when I got my first .45-110 several years ago. Bill and I spoke on the phone for many an hour on several occasions. Even though I never met him personally he invited me to come stay at his house and we would get it shooting on his range. I never did take him up on the invite and I do regret it. I told my friend if he ever sold that gun I wanted first dibs. He then told me he knew where one of Bill's guns was available for sale. He put me in touch with Bill’s widow Sidra. I gave her a call and she sent some pictures of the rifle. I told her I would buy it before she sent the pictures. It came with a lot of brass, Bill’s cartridge belt (it is way too big for me), a bullet mold, a Parts Unknown soule sight and one of Bill’s copper penny front sights and a Walter Cooper pewter tip. It means a lot to me to have a gun that not only belonged to Bill but one he used. This one will stay with me.
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Very nice rifle. You joining ASSRA the year he picked up the rifle from the factory.

The Hank Williams Jr rifle was a 14 pound bull barrel
gun. Willford Brimley used it in the Tom Selleck movie “Crossfire Trail”.
Yes, quite a story, I was told by Robert Bryan that Hank ordered it and when he went to pick the rifle up at Shiloh,
the gun did not weigh exactly 14 pounds. Hank threw a fit and Bob threw Hank out of the shop!

Ranch13 wrote on Feb 16^th, 2023 at 12:11pm:



Yes, Bill and I had a lot of discussions about the .40-70. The .Shiloh .40-70 was my first Shiloh and it never gave me any problems getting it to shoot well. I used it at Alliance and the Quigley for several years.
I sure miss him.
This picture was a good day.

That is a fine looking shooter P-C enjoy it.

Kurt

Don, 
I think a lot of us feel this way. 
I never heard a foul work from him during our time in person or on the phone.

Well maybe once LOL, when I talked him into shooting Calamity, my .50/2.5 with a 720 grain bullet that split his lip and I told him, I said shoot it not kiss it. 

Two years ago on tomorrow, 2/17/21, Bill "The Rdneck" Bagwell left us. Like so many I miss his call and stories.

Bill was certainly a character.

My first ordered Shiloh was an LRE in 45-100 (2.6" case).  I hope to pick up my new one, a Model 1877 in 38-55 on the way to Quigley in June.  I was smarter on this one, Cecil Friede (sp?) sold me a $900 blank.

The most unique one I have was ordered with a paper patch chamber in 45-70.  I had never heard that Shiloh offered that option.The gentleman who ordered it was a machinist/tool & die maker, and he made a mould to fit it.  He only used it for hunting, and only used black powder in it.  You could never tell it had ever been fired from looking down the bore.

Congratulations,

Rich