Great looking plains rifles!

[Quickdraw]

Someone from another site sent this:  http://www.texasguntrade.com/texassportingrifles.htm

Good looking guns!

Quickdraw

[JimBob]

That looks like book I book I'm gonna have to aquire.The J.C.Petmecky mentioned is an interesting fellow,he patented a bore cleaning device for shotguns in the 1880s-

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/budd-petmecky-bore-cleaner-1883-152714373

I have one in my collection.

[The Elderly Kid]

That Toepperwein repeating rifle is intriguing. You don't think of repeaters as being built by individual gunsmiths, just single-shots and double-barrels. I'd like to know how it worked.

[James Hunt]

J. C. Petmecky was an interesting fellow! A Hungarian immigrant, his work in Texas also included the making of spurs. He offered an alternative to the heavy Mexican spur and it was said his work was beloved by the Texas Rangers. He is largely credited with developing the OK style spur, which Buermann Manufactturing later sold by the ton. He may or may not have sold Buermann the rights.

(Bit and  Spur Makers of the Texas Tradition, Martin and House, Hawk Hill Press)

[Chaparosa]

That Toepperwein repeating rifle is intriguing. You don't think of repeaters as being built by individual gunsmiths, just single-shots and double-barrels. I'd like to know how it worked.

Here it is:

[Caleb Hobbs]

Interesting information, James and Chaparosa. Thanks for sharing.

[The Elderly Kid]

Cool! The Topperwein also has very sleek and modern-looking lines. Do you know if he actually made these for sale, or just as working patent models?

[Jake MacReedy]

I really like the looks of that flintlock half-stock rifle near the bottom of the article!  May have to look into having one made like that!

Jake
(from Paige, Texas)

[Tascosa Joe]

Jake:

It is a good looking rifle.  It has some serious drop at the heel.  It had to be intended to be shot standing on your 2 hind legs.  The barrel is as long as on my full stock early Lancanster.

T-Joe

[Jake MacReedy]

You're absolutely right, Joe!  It's definitely a "standing, offhand" rifle!  I love seeing what I loosely term "transitional Kentucky's" like this.  They are very interesting rifles!  Mike Miller of Paducah, Kentucky is making me a flintlock rifle in the next few months.  I may have him try to do one similar to this, but without quite as much drop in the buttstock! 

Jake