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Thanks all, they always look best in the light of day!
I fell in love with the Low Wall action right off but this one is special because it is close to home, owned by a compadre and I get to shoot it. LW's are still my favorite and I'll have two more in the works later this year. 17HMR and a .22K Hornet both with period style scopes.

(All of these custom rifles come with stories as do most stock blanks. This blank came from my good buddy, stockmaker James Tucker who had profile-sawed it and drilled the through-bolt hole for a Hagn, then got a good offer and sold the action. My design just fit over the small blank so I bought it and plugged the hole... I built the rifle as a keeper, but met Kurt (shooter in photo) when he bought it at the Guild Show in Reno. Turned out he lives about 90 miles from me, practically neighbors in MT. I had just finished working with Bill Gamradt (Missoula, MT) on a custom project for Terry Buffum and Bill was amenable to Kurt's screwball notion of an engraved ocelot. Seldom do the stories get told.)
This image is from one of my postcards, Kurt's is the upper, the other a .22WRM that lives in the Hamptons but doesn't get shot...

Now I know where all the low wall actions went. Man, they are getting scarce these days.

I like the tulip barrels you seem to favor on the low walls. They fit well with them.

What's screwball about an ocelot? I like the idea. Of course, I like cave paintings over Picassos too.

Brent

JDS, I can't find my Mr. Rifleman but if you mean Whelen's Clyde Baker? lowall I would agree it is a stunner .... in fact the exception that I would argue proves my rule, expressed above, about lowalls !!
I wonder where it is today. Russ Gilmore and I of the Rifled Arms Historical Ass'n have been trying to trace and/or acquire Whelen rifles written up in Mr. Rifleman but have not got a whiff of that one. So far we have bought nine and located two or three more, but not the Baker lowall, which is one of the most interesting.

Mark, I'm sure that's the very one. I long since gave away my own copy of Mister Rifleman to a friend's son and couldn't remember whether it had been done by Baker or Humphreys (sp?), but it was indeed a stunner. AAMOF I never saw another one even close to its class until I saw my first SDH low wall.

There's an already-blueprinted flat-side round-top low wall SST action hanging on my shop wall right now, Cody letter says it was shipped as a 22RF with #2 barrel and Swiss buttplate in the early 1890s. It's awaiting a tuit....
Regards, Joe