Nice custom .50 caliber York rifle built by Mike Ruggero. Aside from the buttplate and trigger guard all of the other mounts were hand made by Mike. The 2 piece patchbox was completely hand fabricated from sheet brass and features all hand made springs and a hand forged latch. Mike also hand swaged the one piece muzzle cap from sheet brass as well all three brass ram rod pipes. The sideplate was also hand made from brass sheet and hand filed in the York style. Other notable features on the rifle would include the silver wire inlay surrounding the brass star in the cheek piece, the carving on the forestock and the hand engraving which was performed by Brad Emig. Mike did a beautiful job stocking this rifle and the curly maple stock really brings it all together.
The Getz barrel is 44″ long, tapered and flared, with 7 groove rifling and the muzzle has been hand coned by Brad Emig for ease of loading. The lock is a Deluxe Siler from Jim Chambers that has been completely gone over and fine tuned by Brad for a fast and reliable ignition. The triggers are Davis double-sets.
The rifle measures 60″ in overall length with about a 13 3/4″ trigger pull.