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Post by Douglas Blair on Jul 21, 2004 22:02:57 GMT -5
I have a 15/16X44 inch .45 caliber barrel I plan on building around a Rupp. I know a .45 isn't really "PC" for a Rupp but what the heck. I love the profile of this style gun. ;D This should make a great over the log gun to.  |
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Post by Fatdutchman on Jul 25, 2004 12:13:20 GMT -5
man, that sucker will weigh a ton!!! Who made your barrel?
I have done one Lehigh gun and have a second started. They are VERY HARD guns to get right. I've seen lots of attempts and few of them actually look like real Lehigh guns. I would change a few things on the one that I did. Actually, I made myself an entirely new pattern. This one has the "dished out", or "pinched" wrist. I'm still not real wild about the low fore end...where the wood of the fore end does not come up to the centerline of the barrel. Maybe I'll give it a shot, though.
By the way, are you doing a Hermann Rupp, or a John Rupp...two entirely different animals. I've gotten to see what is PROBABLY a John Rupp gun and other than the GENERAL shape of the gun, they do not really resemble those of Hermann Rupp or the Molls. Probably the John Rupp type guns would be easier to do since they are perhaps a bit less unconventional in shaping and styling details.
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Post by Douglas Blair on Jul 31, 2004 8:23:44 GMT -5
Weigh a ton will be an understatement. ;D It is a green mountain blank which I'll have a machinist friend thread and install the breechplug for me.
It will be on the John Rupp style.
Now I need to find someone to carry this thing for me. ;D
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Post by Fatdutchman on Aug 3, 2004 16:10:41 GMT -5
One of the features that I thought was really neat on the one "John Rupp-type" gun that I got to see was that the sharp edge of the nose of the comb did not end when it met the wrist. Instead, there was a very slight "peak" that carried forward along the wrist and blended into the "triangle" that you get behind the tang (if any of that makes sense). I have not seen this feature in any of the photos of J. Rupp guns, but this one definitely had it. I think it makes for a very sleek looking gun. Wrist is definitely HIGHER than WIDE, as opposed to the "other Rupp" guns. This gun had no carving (other than the typical moulding lines), a very red colored finish, and I don't REMEMBER it having a brass box, but my memory on this not absolute. It was a nice, plain gun. $3500 and it would have been mine. Like I say, too bad all my cash is tied up in real estate and gold buillion...  |
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Post by Douglas Blair on Aug 3, 2004 22:37:18 GMT -5
Fatdutchman, this is exactly the way I'm going to build my Rupp. Just like you explained it.  |
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