Little Bat Garnier's plains rifle

[Davem]

Little Bat Garnier was an army scout at Ft. Robinson, NE and his rifle is on display at the museum there.  It has a Goulcher lock and a plain pinned trigger, a brass butt plate. In looking at it the thought hit me that it would not be very difficult to reproduce this rifle.  I asked the curator if they had a yardstick so I could measure the barrel and they had none- and I think they thought I was a little wacky.  In any event- anyone have any particulars on this rifle? Drop at heel, toe, etc.
The lock looked like: http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/781/1/LOCK-GG-SR
A Leman trigger and basic other parts could easily re-create this rifle.

[ChuckBurrows]

There is a picture of Little Bat's rifle in the book "The Plains Rifle" by Charles Hanson which may help some.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

No rifle, but here is a biography;

http://www.metismuseum.ca/media/db/11904

[Davem]

I have that book and for some reason I thought the rifle would be at the Museum of the Fur Trade. I was surprised when I saw it at Fort Robinson.  I think a lot of curators really don't grasp what some of us are after as far as detail.  In any event it is a pretty simple type rifle. It has the Gloucher (sic?) lock with the name stamped on the lock plate- pretty close to the one sold by TOW and the barrel looks straight, not stamped, a plain stock.  The brass butt plate has a fairly deep curve to it.  The lock washer is brass and could easily be made. The trigger looks like the Lyman type and is pinned to the stock.  The time period is a little late for a mountain man but I like the plains/ army scout time period just as much.