This rifle was built by gunmaker Mike Brooks of Eastern Iowa and features his distinctive antique finish. The side plate, trigger guard bow, and buttplate tang are all engraved with boar heads, bows, arrows, and horns suggesting the original owner may have purchased this rifle for hunting hogs. The lock and lower tang also have some simple border engraving. The stock has a combination of incised and raised leaf carving, including a shell design at the barrel tang and scrolls on the left side of the butt. It also features traditional blade and notch sights, a scroll pattern trigger, a wooden patch box lid, and set of tools inside the patch box which include a pick, ball puller, and two worms along with some tow and patching.

Very fine as custom made with attractive textured antique finish on the barrel and lock, aged patina on the brass along with distinct engraving, smooth finish and crisp carving on the stock, and minor overall wear including minor strike wear on the frizzen. Mechanically excellent.