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He was here for a few years. Anyone know what happened to him and if he still builds firearms? It sure was an interesting read. I think this is the link.
http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=22477
Alphawolf45 wrote:Charlie had some serious issues in his personal life a couple years ago and I don't believe he has regained the ambition to build anything.. I am scratch building a Marlin 1888 and an 1889 and can attest to fact that it don't take much distraction to slow or stop a project. Seems it has been about 9 months since I seen him on any forum and he was just responding to a post like this one- didn't mention any ongoing projects.. And he don't swap emails with me anymore.....He is pretty much offline and doing something else...He really does do fine work- or did.
I tried that once. The rain washed it all away.walks with gun wrote:I painted a rock once, all by my self.
So did I, but there were a bunch of us in green doing it at the same time. Now these particular rocks had already been painted many times previously, and I fear they are still being painted on a regular basis today.walks with gun wrote:I painted a rock once, all by my self.
Great work and story, thanks for posting!Alphawolf45 wrote:Charlie and I are sort of opposites.. As an engineer by trade it made him both highly particular and capable but also exceptionally proud of his work.. When he took a work in progress picture he made certain the pieces shown were without tool marks and highly polished PLUS he put as much efforts into the photography.. He has a light box and indirect lighting and good quality camera and knows how to take great pictures.
I rip metal, sometimes take too much off and have to add metal back with TIG welder.. I take in-progress pictures that are poorly lit, out of focus, with stuff in the background and I don't stone or polish any metal until the wood work is done.. But I don't really care if I impress anybody, I just build to suit myself. And for the last 4 years I have devoted myself to competition shooting and so primarily work on guns I can use in matches..
Here see an odd looking thing I built for a thrice yearly match held at my club..The match requires both a mag fed .22 rifle and pistol. .I didn't own any .22 rifle that wasn't either a single shot or tubular mag fed but I did have a pair of Ruger MarkIII .22 pistols....So I built a rifle upper that can be installed in a few minutes on a Ruger pistol.
The rifle at top is the Marlin 1892 I scratch built and use in my small bore lever action matches.. Compare to the rifle upper on the Ruger below that has a 17 inch barrel.
Now let me brag....I took the Ruger pistol/rifle with me to a match last weekend. After the first match guys were shooting at silhouettes that were missed in last round of first match..I pulled out the as yet unsighted in Ruger and squared off in front of 5 half scale chickens at 40 yards offhand. First 4 shots plus a 5th that was a failure to fire that I cleared were misses as I aimed at different locations trying to find where I needed to aim to get on the chicken.. On 6th shot I aimed 4 inchs under and 3 inch to the left and got a solid hit on first chicken.. Immediately I pulled across the 4 remaining chickens firing as barrel was moving.. All 4 fell. Actually all 5 chickens hit the ground within 3 seconds. Luck...But 3 guys came running over to see what I was shooting as they had heard the rapid fire and 5 clanging steel silhouettes...I admit to enjoying their comments on my home built gun.
Edit to add .. I give a lot of credit to the Volquartzen accurizing trigger kit I installed in the Ruger..That kit gave a super smooth 2 pound trigger pull and I adjusted it for shortest possible trigger travel.
Glad I swallowed my last sip of coffee before I saw that!walks with gun wrote:I painted a rock once, all by my self.
Thanks Charlie...I'm only being funny.....about the door stop......the Volcanic belonged to my buddy who owns Targetmaster. And yes....the buttstock is long gone....but it still brought 10 big ones. ...and no, I don't have any Nettleton inspected 1873 ColtsCharlie wrote:That is a cool story sixgun![]()
That is also a cool Volcanic![]()
At one time, there was a detachable Butt Stock for it.
Thanks for posting the picture.