~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A mid-18th century Jaeger rifle is gradually taking shape these days in the Pricketts Fort gunshop. The photos show Greg Bray, senior blacksmith, fitting a steel buttplate to the stock of a .60 caliber Jaeger, a big-game hunting rifle brought over in significant numbers by German gunsmiths in the years between the [...]
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In the gunshop, by degrees, a Jaeger takes form
Posted in Jaeger rifle, Pennsylvania longrifle on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Drop by the blacksmith shop for a look at Mr Bray’s new rifle…
Posted in Greg Bray, Issac Hains, Pennsylvania longrifle, transitional period on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago a beautiful new firearm appeared on the table just inside the door of the blacksmith shop here at Pricketts Fort. It was Greg Bray’s new rifle. Not quite a full-blown Pennsylvania longrifle from the “Golden Age”, it is based on an earlier firearm by the Lancaster county gunsmith Issac Hains, who [...]
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