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Wieland/Flynn “Beau Brummel Rifle” on FN Supreme Mauser action. Photo by Terry Wieland.

Wieland, in collaboration with Louisiana gunmaker James Flynn, transferred Brummell’s concept in clothing to the making of this rifle. Their object was to demonstrate the time, effort, and skill that go into making a custom rifle functional and aesthetic perfection, like a Beau Brummell dinner jacket. Starting with a FN Supreme Mauser action, a Danny Pedersen 25-caliber cut-rifled barrel, they had Bill Dowtin of Old World Walnut personally select the blank of walnut for the project. James Flynn then fashioned all the components into a functional masterpiece that would fully fit Beau Brummell’s sense of styling. I like to call it quiet elegance.

Reto Buehler

Reto Buehler began this project with a Granite Mountain Arms Magnum Mauser action, a custom contoured PacNor barrel, and a fabulous stick of Turkish walnut. He first extended the tangs to the action and to the bottom metal. He also machined the quarter rib from bar stock. The GMA action was worked over to feed the big .500 Jeffery cartridges like a hot knife through butter. He then fashioned the terrific stock in the English styling. He checkered the stock in 20 LPI flat topped checkering. Reto finished the job by rust bluing the metalwork and nitre bluing the ejector and extractor spring. It just doesn’t get any better than this.