Jud and I collaborated on giving a rifle from my collection to our teenage friend Gunner who is moving with his family to the Lower 48 this fall. Gunner is an avid hunter with an interest in black powder and flintlock firearms. Jud engraved the dedication on the buttstock and made a priming horn for the ensemble of rifle and powder horn.
The rifle is a Don King full stock flintlock Hawken-style rifle which incorporates an Alaskan theme in several details, built in 1979. The powder horn features a grizzly bear and is of unknown provenance but it came with the rifle when I purchased it at Great Northern Guns in Anchorage in 1979.
Pictures of the rifle follow.
