Sure are. The quality of his work was outstanding. I am always looking for his rifles to buy.

You know as many firearms as he had handled I was shocked to find out about his accident. I had conversed with him about doing some work for me literally a few days before it happened. Have only seen one of his rifles but yes it was top quality. He was all about a roller. He is most assuredly missed.



JMH

Although he did some great work lets not make him a god. I had two of his rifles built on his action and they were nice. I am still shooting one of his in 50-70 built on a rem military action that is also nice but.... It has an odd dove-tailed piece of steel in the barrel under the forearm. I think he must have recycled a barrel into my rifle when he built it. I sent him the action and expected him to put a new barrel in it. FWIW: I received the rifle the day of his accident and from what I understand, the accident occurred with a Modern Sporting Rifle (AR15). He was pulling the loaded rifle out of his truck by the muzzle when it discharged.

That's how all my #1, #1 1/2, and #3 Remington forearms are also all attached. Pretty standard for Remington rifles in the late 1800's.

I was offered it as I was making Daves screws at the time. But rollingblock Ken ended up with a lot of it

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Does that dove-tailed chunk of steel look like this? That is how #1 Rem. sporters were originally  made. (At least all I have seen) My #1-1/2 is like that also. [/quote]

Now that I look at mine again it is clear he just recycled a barrel onto my rifle. He had to move the block for the forend forward so he just filled one cut and cut another.

Surely there is a special place in hell for such.

Hopefully he's stamping license plates for people now.

Interesting assumptions you have made here. I sent him an action expecting a recreation of Custer's rifle.

Please explain how you think a used barrel recycled into my rifle should have been expected. If you sent an action to ANY builder today would you expect to get a recycled barrel back?
 
When you take your car to the shop for tires do you expect the shop to put on used tires?

That is some collection. What caliber is the early round top sporting rifle? He did a nice job.

Looks a little like the 40-50 SBN...




JMH

Cannot say as to where Dave acquired the reamer.
I load this one using CH-4D 45/50 Peabody dies, then fire form. The 45-45 neck is quite short.
The top rifle (pistol grip)is in 45/70.
My first Lone Star was a pistol grip 50/70.
The pistol grip 45/70 was my last acquisition.

Looks identical to the .45-50 Peabody (AKA .45 Sporting)
Is the head and rim diameter the same as .43 Spanish?

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