Pennsylvania Blue Ridge Mt. Rifle "Schimmel"
A lower costing rifle or fowler that has great architecture and uses the same quality parts and is built as well as a fancy rifle without the art. No buttplate, entry pipe, sideplate and nosecap. A sliding wood patchbox is not out of the question. A wonderful hunting gun and or match rifle. The "Schimmel" is normally built on the Berks and Lehigh Co. pattern. The survival rate of the original plain guns is very low as they were use very hard and often hung in the barn and became rusty and moldy, hence the German word "Schimmel".

PA “Schimmel”  Rifle School by Allen Martin

NORTHERN BERKS COUNTY RIFLE
Description: PA Schimmel in the northern Berks Co. style . A slim petite squirrel rifle!! Getz, 38inch, .36caliber barrel - Small Siler flintlock - Super Curly maple stock - simple handmade triggergaurd & 1 ramrod pipe - A simple hunting rifle that can be built in any caliber.

58 CAL. LEHIGH SCHIMMEL
Description: This robust Blue Ridge Mountain Rifle that could of been built by John Moll or one of his contemporary's. Hard sugar maple was used for this stock with a 44", .58 caliber Getz barrel, Refiled Siler flintlock, and the rifle is brass mounted all aged to a lovely, warm patina!!! A subtle, yet elegant flinter that wants to go to the woods for whitetail deer!!

Builder and Collector of Fine Flintlock Rifles and Fowling Pieces
Best of Show Traditional and Best of Show Overall at the 1999 Dixon's Gunmakers Fair.
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