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Trez Hensley/ Ed LaPour Colt Lightning. Photo by Mustafa Bilal, Turk’s Head Productions.

Frey Hensley

One of our best custom stockmakers over the last couple decades has been Darwin Hensley. His stocks have been on many of our very best firearms. Alas, Darwin has been stricken with Parkinson’s disease and can no longer turn out his fabulous custom stocks. However, the family name associated with the custom gun trade is in good hands. His son Trez has picked up where Darwin had to leave off.

This wonderful custom rifle began as an original Colt Lightning rifle chambered for the .44WCF cartridge, made in 1878. The metalwork is mostly original, but has been cleaned up a bit by both Trez and by Ed LaPour. LaPour also executed the wonderful engraving and gold inlay work on the rifle. Hensley then crafted the extraordinary stock from a really nice piece of Turkish walnut. He checkered the stock in a point pattern at 26 LPI with a mullered border. The shadow line cheekpiece is very unusual in that it features a double radius, rather than the usual single. Trez is well equipped to carry on the tradition of excellence established by his father.