OT***Took my .58 Flintlock to the Range today...

Doc_Eggerton

...to make some smoke.  Port Malabar Rifle and Pistol Club.

Brisket_Fanatic

Beautiful gun!

berndcrisp

Cool!  Now go get some turkeys. 

henapple

Sweet rifle

nolaegghead

berndcrisp said:

Cool!  Now go get some turkeys. 

You need a blunderbuss loaded with shot for that.  I imagine a .58 ball would over-tenderize the meat. 

SGH

Beautiful gun brother. About the only thing that I like more than smokers and cooking is guns and shooting. Enjoy sir.

sodigthisbigcrux

beautiful indeed...I've got a good little collection, but a muzzleloader is not in it. I will remedy that
one day.

Doc_Eggerton

I shoot mostly muzzle loaders, and mostly flintlocks.  The .58 Christian Springs Rifle is named Argyle.  It, and a .36 Southern Mountain Rifle, named Jenny, are my favorites.

When my father found out he had a terminal disease he wanted to have a talk about inheritance issues.  I told him I intended to use a portion of the legacy to have a custom flintlock built (which I could in no way afford at the time), and explained that I believed  that what he left for me should not be used totally for paying bills and such.  I asked him if he would like to start the project right away.  Even though he was bedridden and immobilized, and could barely speak he looked at pictures and helped make choices.  I found a maker, Bill Rooks of PA Longrifles, who agreed to put me ahead of other orders and make it a priority.  He sent almost daily progress pictures that I shared with Dad, and which seemed to lift his spirits.

Unfortunately he passed away a week before Argyle was done.  Bill, the maker, was quite upset.  I will have to take a picture, but he threw in a powder horn carved to match the rifle as a gift.  The rifle is adorned with Scottish, Campbell themes, as Dad's mother was a Campbell and he was proud of his Scots ancestry.

I could not get a picture with enough contrast to be readable, but the plate in the patch box reads:

In Memory of Cecil Gordon Jenkins Sr.
1932-2005
All the Way

Dad was a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, the All American Division.  Hidden is some of the engravings are the back to back AA.

bud812

Very nice gun & a great story too.

NPHuskerFL

Gorgeous rifle! Work of art :-bd

NPHuskerFL

Smoke em if you've got em! Do you hunt with this one at all? Or strictly range use?

Doc_Eggerton

NPHuskerFL said:

Smoke em if you've got em! Do you hunt with this one at all? Or strictly range use?

I hunt with a Thompson Center Renegade, re-barreled with an H&R .50.  This is my most accurate ML, but alas is a percussion cap rifle.  Once I ever actually get a deer I may try the .58 FL.  Given my investment in cartridge rifles and ML's, and other gear, my first deer is going to work out to about $500 a pound in venison.

NPHuskerFL

Nice!!! ^^^

Fred19Flintstone

Beautiful story & rifle. 

yzzi

This is your best thread @doc. That's a great idea to keep part of what your dad left you.

Doc_Eggerton

yzzi said:

This is your best thread @doc. That's a great idea to keep part of what your dad left you.

Actually a little down thinking about it, but yeah, I hope I can leave something like that for my kids.

Jeepster47

The rifle is great ... the back story is even better. 

I inherited my dad's guns and when I hunt with any of them they bring back good memories of hunting with him and my grand father.  My son has also hunted with them and soon his son will have the same opportunity.  The guns aren't worth much, but the memories are priceless.

Thanks for sharing.