My Highwall project... complete!

Great pics, and nice to see the rifle being used. It must give you a lot of satisfaction cruising the woods an mountains alike with something you carved out of blocks of steel and wood. Pure awesome.
 
blargon said:
I was thinking at least $7500/each, but that only leaves you $10/hr...:)

Nice to see you still have time for hunting!
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The Shiloh Sharps out of Montana are up to 3600.00 USD for a production rifle from their site but they are built more than two at a time.
 
leelad said:
Thanks all!

Blargon, DGY and Silver69: A price on THESE?... that's a good one! haha
Honestly though, Making more of these is very much something I hope to be able to do. Currently however, I've got my hands full getting my shop set up for gunsmithing and barrel manufacture. The federal licencing required to manufacture firearms for sale carries significantly more cost than "simple smithing", and as a start up, I don't need the extra red tape. Barrels are non regulated, however, and a given bore diameter can be marketed to any make/model of firearm reducing the required overhead for said startup.

As to potential cost of such a future build, There are too many variables to drop a number. They would be built to order, giving the customer maximum choice in preferences and would need to have a corresponding price tag. However at the same time, I know enough about manufacturing and business to realize I'll need to invest in the equipment necessary to produce these as efficiently as possible if I am to have a hope of actually finding buyers... (I put 750+ shop hours into building this pair. Such labor would require near London maker price tags)

Hoyt: Absolutely! everyone will have differing preferences and that's just great!(Otherwise we'd all be shooting a generic bolt gun in .308) As I said to Ron Smith when I showed him the finished product, He had the same opinion of the side saddles; "Well Ron, If I was making it for you, I would have happily omitted that feature" (He laughed).

Slimbo: I did get it out on a sheep hunt, alas we saw only ewes and lambs and the rifle never came out of its case...
Here are a few pictures of that trip though...











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Well let us know when and if you decide to go into small batch productions, you never know what one will say... may it will be “sign me up for one of each...” or “sorry mate, can’t afford it this time around...”
 
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