I built this old rifle back in '03 and recently did a re-do on it. It was my first gun from a blank of hard maple. It has a 50 caliber Oct to round 36" barrel made by Mark deHass. Used a large Siler lock and brass hardware from TOTW. Has been a good deer rifle for me, so I figured I owed her some TLC.
"They do not live their lives 'by your leave'! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!" - Cora Monroe - "Last Of The Mohicans"
Posts: 186 | Location: Turkey Creek on Cimarron Drainage | Registered: 10 September 2014
Hey, thank you all again for the nice words! I've only ever put a name to one gun in my little collection. It was an ole CVA cussin rifle that I named "LIL BESS" after my basset hound. My darlin Bessy who is now going on 11 yrs old and now called "ole Bess". That's the dog I'm talking about. Grey in the face and sleeps 20 hours a day! I sometimes have to check for a pulse on the ole girl. Yep, still breathin! I've had a hankerin to giving this ole flinter some kind of name, but could sure use some help. Any idea's from you fella's would sure be appreciated!
Bassets are wonderful dogs,and profoundly disobedient....We've had three(slow learners,I guess)......I think if I was gonna name a piece like that,it would have to be something elegant like "Lucretia Borgia".....oh wait,that's been used already....
Beer is proof that God loves us,and wants us to be happy-B. Franklin
Funny you mention about the disobedience of Basset hounds Boartooth! Bessy has always been just the opposite of that. My Mrs. thinks that because she was "companioned" by our Australian Sheppard "Coco" Lord rest her soul, that she toed the line right from the git go. Them Ausies put everything and everyone in their place. Ole Coco had Bessy house broken within the first two weeks of her arrival into our home at just 8 wks of age!
Gosh Sticks, I kind of like that! Was always smitten by Ellie May from the Hillbillies bunch. Ellie May.....the critter gitter! Thank you Sticks! You just helped me give her a name!
Welcome. Funny thing: the gal that played Ellie May used come around here visiting friends. I never did see her that I know of. Just up the road is Silver Dollar City where they filmed a few of their episodes.
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Posts: 4816 | Location: Buffalo River Country | Registered: 23 October 2004
All I can say,Cran,is you musta had an abnormally obedient basset.....Ya know,that gal that played Ellie May just passed on a couple'a months ago....Things like that make you realize how old you're getting...
Beer is proof that God loves us,and wants us to be happy-B. Franklin