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Brent, here are a couple of pictures that may help you decide on the half-round in front of the forearm or set back just shy of the forend tip. Personally, I like the half-round in front of the forend. The one slightly short of the tip is a barrel I bought off the net and is on my rat gun. A little harder to fit the forend properly. You will have a little gap if you go that style and use your old forend,
By the way, congratulations on your win at the Creedmoor 150th Anniversary match at Oakridge. Is the "traditional muzzleloader" class using original 1870''s-1880's rifles compared to "open class" using reproductions. I saw that Art was in the "traditional" class so figuring he shot his Rigby.

Nice set of rifles! What calibers?
Was out shooting my .38-55 High Wall yesterday with a couple of different bullets (300/330 Gr) I shoot smokeless and rest on the on the barrel just because. Who knows??

Every wedding band I've ever seen was done out just past the end of the forearm. Some 1/4" past, while others were maybe 1" past; but always past the forearm tip.

Bob I really like the first one in the pic above, with the barrel transition just inside the end of the forearm tip

Thanks. They are .45-70 Special, .22 LR, and the last was probably .38-55 at the time of the photos but is now .38-72, unfortunately. I shoot only black in the centerfires. The top is really a dedicated target rifle and the bottom a dedicated hunting rifle. The one in the middle swings both ways.

As far as I am concerned, the highwater mark in rifle making was reached in 1885 with the advent of the Winchester Singleshot. No other rifle on the planet can match it for form or function.

Your opinions may differ, but that's mine.



Bob, thanks for those pictures. I am beginning to think I might like the band as you show it in the first photo particularly where it lines up perfectly with the corner of the shnable. Nicely placed.

I think most of the bands that I have seen are placed similarly, but I have seen them further forward, and occasionally further back.

The Creedmoor was a great time. A crowning success for Rick and all the effort he has put into Creedmoor shooting. The classes were a bit hard to follow, but related more to how the rifle was held. We got to use cross sticks or wrist rests in the Open. Traditional was all self supported. I've done that, but not enough that I felt like competing that way. All the other Creedmoor competitions that I shoot use either sticks or wrist rests. I will be shooting the latter often this season in preparation for the International Muzzleloading Creedmoor championship later this year. I used a modern approximation of an Alex Henry Creedmoor that I built with the help of a small committee. I did not shoot particularly well, but I never shot badly over the course of the week. Sometimes that is good enough. With Shaver and Gullo on the line, along with a good handful of others, I was lucky to come out on top. There were a good number of originals on the firing line, and the gunshow at the end of the week was unbelievable. Rigbys and Henrys and Gibbs's that would knock your socks off and lots of others as well. Some guys came only for the show.

I'm looking to join Harris, GRRC this year. I should be a "local" by late spring, so I hope to see more of you guys.

For those that do not know Bob, he has the most eclectic taste in rifles, some of which are not even Winchesters but are exceedingly beautiful, accurate, custom rifles nonetheless. Never miss a chance so see what he is shooting. We should probably twist his arm really hard to post some just to gawk at.