John Wayne's large loop levers evolved somewhat through the years. This is probably his first from the movie "Stagecoach". Very similar to Rossi's design. Later on his loop levers were more of a "D" shape or oval, and didn't droop down as much. http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/...

Thanks. Its blued. What you see there was done with 600, 800. and 1000 grit wet-dry. No chemicals involved. All the sanding done with the gun still assembled. Purposely left some of the blue on. The wood was stripped, sharpened up the top comb, distressed, and stained with minwax english chestnut. T...

I like em so much, I got 3, two 44WCF, one 45 colt.
Here's teacher's pet, one of my 44s.

Here's some more Rossi wood. The carbine is my difinitive 'John Wayne movie rifle'. The wood was stripped, distressed, top comb was sharpened up like the old originals. The front of the forearm was also rounded off like the originals. Then stained with Tandy's saddle tan antiqueing liquid paste. The...

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. Like I said before, the 30-30 has a little history. My brother bought it new at an army PX when he was stationed in France, back in the early '60s. When he came back home, he sold it to me for $75. Well, as it turns out, I have always liked to tinker with things. So...

Hi Folks I really enjoy reading this form. The humor, the knowledge gained. Just a nice place to visit. Now that I have finally learned how to post pictures I'm going to give it a go. So this, obviously is my first post. The picture shows my two pre '64 94s. Top one is a very minty 32WS that I picke...