Schuetzen Gun Company

Builder of custom Freund's Patent 1874 Sharps rifles and JP Gemmer style, single shot rifles.Gu Master gunsmithing services and consultation available Welcome to the company website! I hope you will look carefully at what I offer. The site is a basic...

Builder of custom Freund's Patent 1874 Sharps rifles and JP Gemmer style, single shot rifles.Gu Master gunsmithing services and consultation available Welcome to the company website! I hope you will look carefully at what I offer. The site is a basic informational style to acquaint you with what I do as far as services and prices. It also shows many examples of the work I have done for customers over the last 35 plus years in gunmaking. As you will see, my specialty is single shot rifles of the late 18th and early 20th centuries. However, I am no stranger to modern target rifles and pistols. After all, aren't all guns interesting? I am and always have been a one-man shop, doing everything in house, (with one exception). I carve and fit my own stocks and make my own patterns. I do all my own machining, barrel fitting, and bluing. The one exception is color case hardening, which I quit doing some years ago, but all prep work for it is