Is anybody familiar with Serrifile? Apparently Bo Clerke built some guns under this name in Lancaster, California. My specific interest is in the single shot rifles. There was a close copy of the Winchester High Wall (parts interchange) and one that resembles the Sharps Borchardt. I just traded into one of these hammerless rifles. It's missing some parts: the forearm and what appears to be a plunger arrangement that screws into the front of the receiver to hold the lever open and closed.

The barrel is a 28" heavy octagon in 32-40, probably of another manufacturer. It's marked 4 20 91 (date?) and JOM004. It has scope bases for an externally adjusted target scope and no sights.


Thanks for any info.

My experience with Serrifile was that Bo Clerke made and sold a line of Winchester parts, levers, buttplates, double set triggers, etc. Bo made rifles under the Serrifile name in his shop at Lancaster California. The complaints that I heard were that some of his rifles had parts that weren’t properly heat treated. I built up a 22 on a winder musket action with Bo’s parts and I still use it. In the Nov-Dec 2023 issue of the Single Shot Rifle Journal, there’s an article on Bo Clerke.

Larry,

This is a pic of my winder musket with Bo Clerke Serrifile triggers, as I recall I had to harden the surfaces, but these triggers are excellent and I've used them for many years.