Building a backer board for the old rifle to hang somewhere.

It seems like this was the first rifle issued to me back in the Civil War? 

Love it!

 

We were recently to a get-together and the lady had a Charcuterie board made similar to that (without the gun). It was really a neat idea for serving a large crowd.

Edited August 14, 20223 yr by lew

2 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

It seems like this was the first rifle issued to me back in the Civil War? 

Which side were you on?

Oh, I didn't know they had sides!

Hey Jess. Where'd ya get that cool rifle?

John I got that when we use to spend 3 months in South Fork in June, July and August.

 

Its really strange for us poor folks could not believe what was taking place for about two of three weeks before the snow hit the better off folks would sell everything in their summer homes so they then could re- furnish  their summer hide a way in all new stuff the next summer. It was like this for all the well off people for getting all that stuff hauled back to their homes by a commercial mover cost too much every year. And trying to figure where to store it wasn't liked by everyone we talked to..

  Evidently that wasn't the main reason.  The only homes that got broken in to during the winter was the high class homes. Smart thieves!!

  We always took our woodworking machinery and wifes the stained glass stuff and we worked on that stuff every other day and the other days  we would go in the car as far as we could until noon then turn around and go back to the rv park and we would always go a different route to see Colo.

  The rv park sits at 8240 feet above sea level so the nights are always in the low 40's and the days around 85 or so. 

 This was ideal for us after we retired but the last year when we got back to Breckenridge it was 113 that day and for me to all of a sudden have to try and adjust to heat like that almost done me in. So now we stay here in the summer but we gradually get use to the heat and we go about what ever it is we are doing with not a lot of stress.

 John we got that rifle and this toothpick dispenser for 12 bucks. I was going to tear the tooth pick thingy down so I could build more like it but wife won't let me. You might have seen one like it. You push a little knob down on the end of a rectangle box and this little duck leans his head in to the box and brings back a tooth pick. 

This looks to be a pretty cool project Jess.  Got a spot to hang it yet?

No I don't Cal. Over the fire place seems like a good area but I have it cluttered so bad wife can never find the matches!. The only thing missing on the gun is the ram rod but I doubt if it ever gets fired again.

This is a two trigger model. One to to shoot toward the enemy and the other trigger, if one of the enemy takes it away from the owner of the gun, the second trigger is to fire backwards.  

It's on display

Top notch! 

Most excellent and quite fitting for a Texan.