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Post by zeus on Mar 12, 2020 17:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by bullseye on Mar 12, 2020 17:21:13 GMT -5
That's pretty doggone neat!
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Post by potatojudge on Mar 12, 2020 17:28:24 GMT -5
I would buy that if it came to market.
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Post by taffin on Mar 12, 2020 17:44:19 GMT -5
I picked this gun up about a year ago from Keith’s estate. If you don’t know who he is then I suggest doing a little research. He was an extremely cool guy and was a genius when it came to gun mechanics and engineering of these in general. He was a major contributor to the success of the TLA revolver coming to fruition. His lever guns are extremely cool! This gun is a falling block 45-70, he fabricated it from scratch. What’s really cool is the prototype he machined from micarta to check parts function before building the real gun. I will always remember the conversations I was able to have with him over lunch at the range. His understanding of the mechanics amazed me. I was honored to add this one to the collection. I’ve never really showed pics of this one before so I figured it would be cool to let everyone see it. Reminds me of an old Howdah  KEITH WAS A GOOD FRIEND AND A GENIUS. I HAVE SEVERAL LEVERGUNS HE CUSTOMIZED FOR ME.HE DUPLICATED THE #5 LOCKING CYLINDER LATCH FOR TLA. |
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Post by zeus on Mar 12, 2020 17:48:41 GMT -5
I picked this gun up about a year ago from Keith’s estate. If you don’t know who he is then I suggest doing a little research. He was an extremely cool guy and was a genius when it came to gun mechanics and engineering of these in general. He was a major contributor to the success of the TLA revolver coming to fruition. His lever guns are extremely cool! This gun is a falling block 45-70, he fabricated it from scratch. What’s really cool is the prototype he machined from micarta to check parts function before building the real gun. I will always remember the conversations I was able to have with him over lunch at the range. His understanding of the mechanics amazed me. I was honored to add this one to the collection. I’ve never really showed pics of this one before so I figured it would be cool to let everyone see it. Reminds me of an old Howdah KEITH WAS A GOOD FRIEND AND A GENIUS. I HAVE SEVERAL LEVERGUNS HE CUSTOMIZED FOR ME.HE DUPLICATED THE #5 LOCKING CYLINDER LATCH FOR TLA. He was an awesome guy! I missed the take down lever gun by a few minutes that was for sale. I would have liked to have it as well. I always admired yours and had the opportunity to shoot one of his once. Wish I had been a little quicker to decide that day 😩 |
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Post by bula on Mar 12, 2020 17:50:44 GMT -5
Yup ! Pegs the needle on the cool meter.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Mar 12, 2020 18:54:59 GMT -5
Zeus, have you shot it?? I’m wondering about recoil and accuracy, or if as you mention it’s intent was point blank Tiger shooting from atop an elephant.
Very cool though.
Trapr
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Post by win1894s on Mar 12, 2020 18:56:32 GMT -5
Awesome! What talent he had.
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Post by Encore64 on Mar 12, 2020 18:58:49 GMT -5
Yep, that's a very cool gun. I like it as it reminds me of a Ruger #1 in pistol form.
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Post by mike454 on Mar 12, 2020 19:18:39 GMT -5
Too cool. Can't remember who he did it for, maybe NAA but I remember a neat little mini revolver he designed.
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Post by cmh on Mar 12, 2020 19:52:07 GMT -5
Very neat and you can see he sure had talent. Thanks for sharing!!!
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Post by txn63 on Mar 12, 2020 20:04:25 GMT -5
I have to agree with the previous comments, that’s just too cool! Love that the design follows in the style of the old English falling blocks. Looks like it would have been right at home on the safaris of years gone by. Like bigbrowndog I’m curious, have you shot it yet? Wondering what recoil is like with that grip angle?
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Post by contender on Mar 12, 2020 20:10:23 GMT -5
Unique AND interesting!
Truly special for sure!
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Post by jfs on Mar 12, 2020 20:29:56 GMT -5
Impressive handgun Glenn....A true "one and only"... I had called Bill Grover about a problem with my #5 and he put me in touch with Keith. It was a most interesting conversation. Sent him my #5 that he rebuilt saying a lot of the parts were not heat treated. Told me he wanted to replace the grips on my TLA with some plywood but did not have the "heart"... Good guy.. You got yourself some handgun. Was thinking about what it took just to make the micarta mock up.... A real gun man for sure...
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Post by zeus on Mar 12, 2020 20:55:12 GMT -5
I haven’t shot it. I’ll try to this year sometime. I’ll likely try some old trapdoor loads. Barrel looks great inside. I bet it shoots!
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