I'm trying to locate bolt action rifles for sale built by Jack Haugh from Indiana. Please send me a private message with details if you know of any.

Sent you a pm.

He made some very nice rifles, for sure. I see them on occasion...I'll make a note.

Thank you. I'd sure like to track some down.

IMO, he is the best gunmaker ever in the trade..I sold my old Haugh rifle about a year ago, I just couldn't turn down that kind of money! I miss that gun, I shot everything in Africa except elephant and Hippo with it..I doubt that I will ever replace it with a better gun..kudos to Jack Haugh..

I will see if I can find the address of the guy I sold it to, maybe he will sell it to you..I don't know.

George Caswell had some at Champlin Arms a while back, maybe he knows where another one might be.

I've got 4 of them. The first three I had built; .416 Haugh Mauser, a .400 Whelen Springfield, and a 1922 Springfield, the 4th one is a .270 Mauser that I traded for. I'll try to post some pictures in the next few days.

For the last twenty years my Michigan deer rifle has been a Jack Haugh custom Ruger No. 1 .243. Jack did everything... metal work, stock and bluing and engraving.

I had originally bought the gun (it's an early four-digit serial number) used in the early 70's. Eventually swapped it to a friend who sent it to Jack. When he got it back I had to have it... cost me the only 100% G & H I have ever seen.

A few years ago I got tired of the Ruger trigger (I'm a BR shooter and use 2 oz. triggers all summer.) and replaced it with a Keppling set trigger.

The gun is quite loverly and, as long as I am around, it ain't going no place. Jack has been a good friend. We've attended gun shows together, he's been to my place and drank my scotch. He's the only smith I know that does everything... wood, metal, blueing and engraving. Ain't never going to be another.

I'm too dumb to post pics. Are their any readable, coherent instructions here on how to do so?

Dick Wright

The pics on the web of Mr. Haugh's work certainly look very promising.

I have one for sale in the classified..I put it on the market at least temporarly so that I don't change it up! How long I can last without modifying it for a scope is in question! ...Its an absolute awesome rifle.

I finally got around to getting some pictures rouded up. The first one is of my .416 Haugh - it's a 404 Jeffery shortened to fit in a standard action with a 40 deg shoulder. 400gr bullets at about 2350fps. Jack came up with it in the early 80's and this is the second of 2 he made. It's a 1935 Brazilian action with custom sights modelled after a picture of a Westley Richards (obviously). I will have to get pictures of the target, this things shoots like a scoped 30-06. The best two targets to date were consecutive targets at 100yds off bags - one is 1-1/4" and the other is 1-3/8". Not sure I would believe it if I hadn't been the trigger puller.

All metal, wood, and engaving was done at the shop in Milan.















shot these in '07 - I need to shoot more...

After the 416 was finished I was at the shop one day and he handed me a Springfield action. He asked what are we going to do with this? Petrov made a 400 Whelen freak out of me, so this came along. Not sure why I don't have more pictures of the wood, but you get the idea from the metal. Custom banded front ramp, 1/4 rib, etc. everything made from scratch. Engraved to copy a Kornbrath rifle from one of the old Gun Digest articles. Stocked to duplicate a late 20's G&H Springfield.

Very nice rifles.

Beautiful.