I feel like a kid with a new toy but I don’t want to dominate the forum with what I like.
What do you folks want to talk about? I know this is just a few days into the forum but trying to get an idea of who is here and what your interests are. Many of the folks posting are people I know but as time goes on hopefully we will see more new folks. My interest is the historical research of the American custom gunmaker circa 1885-1940 with a special interest in custom sporting rifles made by American Custom Gunmakers 1910-1940. I also have an interest in the custom shotgun makers as well. When not researching and during good weather I can be found at the rifle range shooting Schuetzen rifle(s). I’m a solitary bench shooter who has never been much of a competitor and very seldom shoot in matches. I have published my research in Rifle, ASSRA-Journal, Gun Digest, Accurate rifle and now write full time (about four articles a year) for Precision Shooting. Anchorage is the home to several fine collections of single-shot rifles and an anonymous gunmaker who does restoration work on them so I get to see many fine single-shot rifles. I maintain a reference collection of pre-war custom sporting rifles.
