The Gentleman’s Trout Gun

First of all, just want to say thanks to all the gents here that published photos of their stock work. It gave me some good ideas. This is my first SS, and also my first CO2. I’m an old fart vintage springer guy and my Catholic guilt would have really kicked in if I went into HPA, so, CO2 was a good compromise.

Last year, whilst smoking a cigar in the garage in the dead of winter, I started to think about trout fishing in the spring. I thought it would be nice to have a small takedown, uberquiet and accurate rifle to bring with me. After a ton a research on this site, I thought the SS would be a good platform to start with.

I decided that I was going to use 9oz bottles for this because they’re a stronger alloy and are very slim.

Here’s the gun so far. The mechanics are stock except for losing the safety and honing down the sears a bit on the trigger. Up front, the pipe has a few goodied in there to catch that nasty lead dust. All you get now is a hammer click.

I liked the idea of a slim, full stock in a high grade walnut

It was a long winter and I had lots of time on my hands so I did a little fancy stuff with ebony, rosewood and micarta spacers.

The wood has no stain on it at all, just 10 loving coats of RLO and finished with a little Johnson’s pastewax.

The trigger blade is ebony as well and the guard is chopped from an old, flintlock pistol project

The butt is a piece of Walnut with a 1in dia oak dowel pinned and glued and strapped to the bottle. The bottle cover is a piece of leather just wrapped and velcro’d. I think the leather needs a bit more work. The 9oz bottle allow for a nice cheek weld

The buttpad is Weihrauch of course. It came off an old HW30s.

The gun has a Leapers 4x bugbuster. I threw it on there quick just to sight the gun in but am very pleased with the little scope and think I’ll keep it that way.

The little gun shoots quite nicely, getting clovers out to 75 feet if the wind is low. It loves JSB exacts.

Gotta go, the fish are biting!