C.W. Richter
AH legend
This one is a 44 caliber percussion plains rifle first owned by my great great grandfather C. and then handed down to my great-grandfather W. who was born in 1875 and lived until the early 1970s. He was the first person to take me out hunting from age 3 until 5 when he passed away. He used this gun up until the end and I have one of his deer we took together hanging next to the rifle. The action was made by Bell in London but the barrel was replaced by a gunsmith in Wilkes-Barre PA we will just generally say the gun is 175 years old. I have been told to take the gun to the infamous Dixon's muzzleloader shop to have them go over it so that I may shoot one more deer with it in my great-grandfather's honor. Now the sad part... My family has been in America since 1630 (we'll call it British East America at that time lol). There was another but sadly I parted with it to fund a divorce nearly 25 years ago. That one was also a rifle but a long rifle with an even older nickel plated English flintlock action. I don't believe they bought that one I believe they took it from an ailing gent in a red coat c.1770s. I had to decide between the two this one my great-grandfather and I hunted with and the other one it was worth more money. That's their hunting cabin in the late 1800s my great-great-grandfather is standing holding this rifle and my great-grandfather is the boy in the doorway. We still own that property.
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