I found this over on the 24hrcampfire site-you'll have to scroll down a bit, but it is worth it!

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/453514/an/0/page/0#453514

I admire anyone who's made his own gun. I hope to one day myself. I'm still working on the design in my mind's eye.

That is a absolutely amazing work.

That is very nice work. I've always wanted a 99.

A friend of mine actually designed and made his own action using features of the old Sharps and Win High wall. It has a straight firing pin but uses a mounted hammer and a self designed and built sidelock action . It is a falling block cartridge firing gun. He does quite well in silouette matches. The only store part is the barrel.

fla3006, you need to scroll down further. It is not the 99 stock. There is a side lever Fraser action below that post entitled My elk rifle. It blew me away that the guy built this action.

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Customstox: fla3006, you need to scroll down further. It is not the 99 stock. There is a side lever Fraser action below that post entitled My elk rifle.

Now I see! Anyone who can do that is a genius. Once a guy walked by my table at the Houston show with a similar barreled action. His was a homemade miniature Farq with a ribbed oct/rd barrel, integral barrel band, the whole 9 yards. I asked about it and who he was, turned out he was a local machinist over in Louisiana who made the rife in his garage. The Fraser is especially nice!

Forrest,
I saw an article written about a .22 rimfire done on a Ruger #1 with extensive reworking of the action. Same thing, the builder brought it by a table occupied by a writer at a show back east. He wrote the article and the guy who built it was a farmer with little or no formal metalwork training.

Some people are blessed with overwhelming talent that the rest of us can only dream of.

WOW is all I can say...