doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com A miniature Farquharson.

Another magnificent piece of the gunsmiths art.

See:- http://www.hallowellco.com/hensley%20heilmann%2017%20hornet.htm

Please get a towel to soak up the drool, paper tissues won't make it.

Harry

I'm probably giving away my low breeding but that gun just doesn't do much for me. It sure is well done, but even for 1% of the asking price, I don't really think I would bite. It's so far over the top, I can't appreciate it I guess.

I'm probably revealing my low breeding and rednecked education I suppose.

I wonder it has ever been shot?

What a piece of work.

IMO half as much gold would double the beauty. Regards, Joe

A beautiful piece of work I am sure from some of the best, but I too am at odds with some of the features.
I realize it is a 'miniature' but the butt stock looks a bit too lean for my tastes. The whole package looks too slim to my eye, but thats just me. I understand the English single shot rifle look & the fact that it is a miniature but this one just took the diet a bit too far IMHO.
It needed a scope I guess for the caliber, but I wouldn't have picked the caliber and wouldn't have picked that particular scope mount base. It looks too bulky for lack of a better term on top of that trim action.
I don't care to the final effect of the engraveing /case coloring/ gold inlay/ grey tone finish. I'll bet it looked much better in the white. Perhaps a French grey finish would have done better on it.
I guess I won't be sending in my 28k for it.
Just my .02 and it ain't worth that!

I don't know a lot about scope rings or mounts. What type of scope mounts are on this rifle. It states that they are "custom". Are the QD rings something that can be purchased or are they custom made too? How would the scope return to zero if it were removed and put back on again?

With less flash, and some minor changes in the stock and barrel, I would like it even better, but generally I think it's a nice looking gun profile.

The scope mount looks like a copy of the G&H/Brownell/Kimber/Talley design, made in the proper scale to match the small-dia tube of the scope and overall dainty size of the rifle. Yes, I'm sure they are entirely bench-made custom items specifically for this size rifle, but similar mounts and rings are available for full-size scopes and rifles and the steel dovetail system allows return to zero within 1/2 MOA or less, by actual shooting test. I like this design and use it often on my own projects.
Regards, Joe

From decades - generations - back I recall a miniature Farquharson by I think Westley Richards in .22-3000 or R2 with a stock that looked very much late Shelhammer, Monte Carlo cheekpiece and fillet behind the grip cap. Think I saw it at Abercrombie & Fitch. No doubt it is still around.

Are there any metalsmithing books that discuss the fabrication of custom scope mounts and bases. I would like to know more about them. Thanks