Babydriver wrote on May 31^st, 2025 at 10:36pm:

I'm sorry to inform you that Chris brought a pocket full of money to pistol league to purchase the rifle a week after he first saw it. 
As I told him and others, it's a parts gun, but a really nice looking and great shooting parts gun. 
Late 1880s action, a NOS Winchester Model 52 barrel I somehow found on eBay, a NOS Fajen buttstock, also an eBay find, forend cut by CPA from a chunk of walnut from my place. 
I fit up all the parts, chambered the barrel to lightly engrave bullets, rust blued the receiver and all its parts, fit and finished the semi inletted wood, then assembled everything and went to the range. 
Fit with a 10x Unertl telescope, it would shoot into 1/2-5/8" at 50 yards with SK Std Plus if I did my part.