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Those are beautiful Drew!
I watched this one go by last month, but iot won't be any help on the serial # quest

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=243736413

Saw one of these for the first time this week. Very slick action and beautifully made. Price was $795 which I thought was very high given the fact that was missing a sliver of wood at the tang. Condition was decent otherwise.

For those of you keeping track, it was a 30 Rem (marked 30-30 Remington) Serial #1198.

If you're interested in the gun, PM me and I'll give you the contact info. It's in northern Michigan.

Rod

Rod - there was one on my table at the last Savage Fest, 30-30 Remington with a repair to the stock at the top left side of the tang - stock problems in the tang area are quite common with these from what I have seen. I am sure that many of these Stevens have been over looked by someone just thinking it's 'another Marlin' at first glance - I look for them and have walked by some that I later notice the second time around a show.....make me wonder how many I never noticed that second time around!!!

E. E. Redfield dsigned rifles-

Gene

Saw one today in a local shop. #1272 in 25 Rem wearing a Lyman tang sight and bearing "custom" checkering on both forarm and buttstock....maybe 70% overall.
Pricetag said $1500.......

Hey, was it anyone here that won the parts gun 425 on GB last month on the 22nd?

Still looking for a buttplate to finish off my 3rd 425.

Vintage
Do you have serial number 3740
in .25 rem.? I also know of 5366 am
waiting on caliber
Mike

#2711 in 35 Rem resides in Big Sky Country. Paid $500 at Livingston gun show
about 10 yrs ago. I have only seen this one and 2 or 3 others, which were in Cody, Wyo. Backwoodman magazine ran an article on High Powers back in about 1998. Took 5 yrs to find one.

Well i picked up a rifle in 25 Remington today,s/n 1928 it says 25 Rem soft point on the barrel. It is a bit rough but i have all the calibers now ,i was missing the 25 cal. Don

I guess they really didn't want you to shoot pointed bullets!

Steve, Thats kind of what i was thinking !! still no s/n below 1000 or over 6000 !! Don

Don, thats wierd huh?

I was looking at one of my 425's in 35 Rem the other day and it says the same thing but the other 35 Rem and the 25 Rem don't have that stamped on their barrels.

Got the new (old) Marbles installed on the 25 Rem last week, feels wierd, it's right in the way of where I grip the butt.

Joe,I have a few that say it,and some that dont!!!! dont remember the calibers tho. i don't understand the random stampings !!!

What do you think of these. They're on one of my 35 Rems. British Proof marks? Import marks?

So, some of them must be specially designed to handle pointed bullets?

Joe - those are some very neat proof marks!

Yep, just found out what they are. Google is awesome.

They're British all right. One is a black powder proof mark, one is a "view" proof mark and the other is some parrabellum pistol proof mark. Not sure why thats on it. They were all made at the Birmingham proof house. Someone must have brought it back to Canada after the war or something. Wierd, why would someone take a Stevens 425 with them over there?

A little history of the Birmingham Proof House.

http://www.gunproof.com/index.html

Why wouldn't someone have taken it there and back. In the late 19th and early 20th century the Brits were infatuated with U.S. firearms. Colt's had a factory there for quite a while and Winchester '73s and '76s sold well. For those that couldn't afford a British "Best" rifle or shotgun they went with what worked.

Cool, it says they have a store of documents. I'd bet if I got ahold of them they could tell me why or when my 425 was there.

Probably be worth a couple mouse clicks or a few stamps.

I got a couple 1886 Winchester express rifles that were used in Labrador for shooting those big seals !!!!! They got those damned proof marks all over the barrels!!!

I'll hazard a guess that way back when England's gun laws started to become draconian in nature, a fair number of rifles were 'evacuated' back to this side of the Atlantic- Canada being a logical destination. Any gun imported into the UK had to be proofed at the gov't proof house before it could be sold, as well as any gun freshly built there.