I think that during my time on park they used kits, but did the "custom" thing with carving stocks and so on. I always thought they looked pretty great, but the prices were high...at least it seemed to me. However, the shooting demonstrations were very popular, and it seemed there was always someone in the shop looking around. Bruce Grimes was the gunsmith when I was there, he yodeled for guests, and it was very popular, too. He would come in the Vineyard Restaurant almost every afternoon and purchase a big glass of grape juice, and we'd ask him to yodel for us, too. He almost always complied. Someone probably has an old '77 or '78 brochure or one of the old booklets they sold, and in one of those I think there is a photo of the "Spirit of '76" carved black powder rifle gunstock that was offered for sale at the time of the Bicentennial. I think Bruce Grimes may have carved it. It was fantastic. I got to hold that piece of art in my hands, and I always looked at it when I was in the shop. I think, eventually it sold...it would be quite the collectors item.
