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Anybody here have practical experience with a Lee-Navy straight-pull rifle? A feel for what they're worth?
A buddy has offered me a pristine one in original Navy issue configuration, with bayonet and scabbard. Bore is not perfect but very good nonetheless, I would say 8+ on a scale of 1 to 10. Dies, original brass and brass made from .220 Swift cases included. He's wanting $2K which strikes me as pretty fair but I'm not an expert on these. Always wanted one but it's eluded me so far as most I've looked at over the years (both military and sporting versions) have had sewer pipe bores and/or were altered too much.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
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I would jump on it. I've had a couple. The first a Winchester-Lee factory sporter and the other an August Pachmayer conversion to .256 Newton. They're keen guns.
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John Barsness wrote about playing with one several years ago. You might message him for any pertinante poop you would want on it. Nice find.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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John Barsness wrote about playing with one several years ago. You might message him for any pertinante poop you would want on it. Nice find. Mine was a Winchester sporter--which basically differed from the military model in the stock and barrel length. (Winchester also made the military rifles.) The article eventually became Chapter 20 in the first Big Book of Gun Gack--which is still in print, and I suspect gnoahhh might own...or maybe not!
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Yessiree Bob I own the Big Book! I reckoned on relying on that chapter for handloading tips if and when I found myself owning the gun. Lunch with my buddy tomorrow, where I shall ply him with buckets of beer until he says "meh, you want it you can have it." Well, one can only hope..... 
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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He's bringing it 'round tomorrow. Gulp.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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