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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Old gunsmiths that have forgotten more tricks than I will ever learn






He told a writer for the newspaper The Oklahoman that he started work in a gunmaking shop when he finished school at the age of 14. “I happened to go past a place that makes guns and decided that would be interesting,” the 1985 profile reported. “There’s no rhyme or reason; it happened just by accident, really.”

The son of a keep-net weaver from whom he inherited a lifelong passion for coarse fishing, Rowe apprenticed with S. Wright & Sons, in Birmingham, from 1946 to 1951 and later worked as a gunmaker for Thomas Turner & Sons, in Berkshire, from 1963 to 1965. After completion of his apprenticeship, in 1951.

After completion of his apprenticeship, in 1951, Rowe was conscripted for national service, initially in Germany, where he was assigned to the Durham Light Infantry. He spent time with the British Army of the Rhine, where he met his first wife, and later served as an armorer with the Paratroop Regiment in the Near East, where he rose to the rank of sergeant.

Rowe started and ran his own business as a gunmaker in Bracknell, England, from 1965 to 1982. After emigrating to the US in 1982, he established a reputation as an authority on British guns, working first with George Caswell of Champlin Arms, in Enid,

John “Jack” Rowe started and ran his own business as a gunmaker in Bracknell, England, from 1965 to 1982. After emigrating to the US in 1982, he established a reputation as an authority on British guns, working first with George Caswell of Champlin Arms, in Enid, Oklahoma. He taught shotgun-repair classes and a full range of related gunsmithing skills at Murray State College, in Oklahoma, for many years and made a series of instructional videos produced by Trinidad College and presented by Brownells. He also made a four-hour video titled “Gunsmithing British Side by Side Shotguns” with Larry Potterfield, president of Midway USA.
 
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