Along with a big article on 8 Gauge shotguns by Sherman Bell, "British Sporting Guns & Rifles Part XXI Banned In America,"
there was another gem featured in the Spring 2009
THE DOUBLE GUN & Single Shot JOURNAL.

George W. Calef's "Rebirth of a Legend, Re-creating the Sharps-Borchardt Rifle in New Mexico."



This is Al Story's Model 84 action.
It is definitely bigger than the Sharps-Borchardt 1878 (Model 78) replicas that he builds better than the originals.
He has a small action called the Model 86 also, a proprietary design falling-block.

The Model 84 would make a nice 12 Gauge shotgun, eh?
I am wondering if Rob's Betsey Borchardt is a Model 84 by Al Story, or is it a scaled up 1878 by someone other than Al Story?
I would have to look back through the 12GaFH thread to help my memory ...

i have been considering the 86, I have a beautiful 30-40AI on an original and it needs a companion.

Mine is a modified model 84 (although Al never called it that) which Al and I developed specifically for the 12GaFH. I dont know how many Al ever made, but mine has serial number 005. I just bought a action which took two years to make.Al did all his machining with manual equipment and its made from a solid block of 8620 steel.-Rob.

Rob,
Impressive credentials you have there if you worked on that action with Albert S. Story, way back when. Was it 1984?

I have tried to call, but the telephone numbers I found for Albert S. Story, and The Borchardt Rifle Company, in Silver City, NM, do not work.

DuggaBoye and I would like to talk to Al.

RIP- No, I worked with Al on My action( with its mods) which was built about 5-6 years ago. Didnt mean to imply anything else. Al was very sick when I last spoke with him and he may have passed on.-Rob