Rifles with a Davy Crockett Pedigree – Garden & Gun
photo: Jason myers Gunmaker Greg S. Murry’s first reproduction (top) of the initial Crockett rifle brought to him (second from top), with two other original Crockett rifles. Late one afternoon in 2015, Greg S. Murry, a black-powder rifle maker in Columbia, Tennessee, crouched over his workshop bench and tapped a drift punch with a hammer. Pins more than two hundred years old fell out of the forestock of an American muzzle-loading long rifle. Murry’s hands were shaking. By his side stood the gun’s owner, a woman descended from Samuel Crockett III, who with his son Andrew operated a highl...
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