When engraving games scenes on guns I draw animals or birds direct on the metal and engrave them with a hand push graver and only transfers are the scrolls. J.J.
I've had a long interest in single shot rifle's some good books on single shot rifle's and actions by Frank de Haas & single rifle's by James J. Grant also Tom Rowe's books and the American Single Shot Rifle Association witch I'm a member of an other place for old cartrige's AARDVARK...
This colt was found in an old house by a contractor that I restored many years ago. Former Tiffany engraver Jim Lowe touched up the lettering on the 1911.