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I have a S&W 10-5 in original box, not even a ring on the cylinder was made in the early 60's. not rare, but the condition it's in is kinda.

used to have a savage 93 in 22 hornet, they didn't make many of them

I have a marlin 62 in 256 win mag, no pics

S&W 586 with a 2 1/2 inch barrel.... less than 400 made....

How do you find out how many of a gun were made?

Lipsey's Ruger 77 RSI .250 Savage, matte stainless, red pad, 1 of 98 made.

Loggah;
Thanks for posting up the photo of the 1876 - I didn't even know such a beast existed.

As you likely know the 1876 was in service to our NWMP from 1878 until as late as 1914.

One interesting tidbit I found this morning on page 18 in Roger f. Phillips and Donald J. Klancher's "Arms & Accoutrements of the Mounted Police 1873-1973" is this report from the Dominion Government 1899.

Apparently in 1898 the Dominion Government sold 210 "condemned" 1876 Winchesters for $1.50 each to Hartley and Graham, merchants in New York City. These were carbines the militia department had acquired during the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and which never saw service in the Mounted Police.

It doesn't say if they had a bayonet lug or not - but the number is close enough to the total produced to be interesting is it not?

Anyway sir, I thought I'd share that bit of information with you and anyone else interested this morning and thanks so much again for sharing yours.

All the best to you this weekend sir.

Regards,
Dwayne

That is sharp. I like the post-bastardizing better.

I have what I think is a Remington 725D, one of eight I believe. It has a beautifully figured factory stock with an oil finish and a checkering pattern a bit coarser and different from a standard 725.

I bought a Model 700 in .221 Fireball with a laminated stock a few years back; one of 200. On one occasion I was able to put ten of Bergers 40 gr. HP's in 0.55".

I have two of the first 1200 Model 700 carbines made, both .30/06.

New Browning Browning BSS Grade II 12 ga

I have a model 12 28 gauge, It was made the first year that they were offered. It is a field grade, which is surprisingly much more rare. Also, a S&W model 1 3rd issue, It has a squared off backstrap which only a few where made.

This is probably the rarest gun you could ever find. It is a Burgess wrist slide action rifle in 44-40 with 2 barrels. Burgess was second only to Browning in his rifle building genius and eventually started his own rifle company around 1890. This particular gun is extremely rare having 2 barrels and only 3 or 4 of this model known to exist...

I recall seeing this Burgess in a Rifle Magazine article by Mike Venturino IIRC a couple years ago. Was that your rifle featured?

That's pretty cool Shrap. It seems like I saw an article about that several years ago in one magazine or another.

shrapnel;
Top of the morning to you sir, I trust this finds you and yours well on this snowy Friday morning.

Thanks for sharing those photos, I've again got to say I don't believe I've ever seen even that much of a Burgess wrist slide rifle pair.

I thought I'd seen a Burgess pump shotgun or two at gun shows up here and Googled for some images to refresh my memory. While it doesn't seem like I'm able to successfully copy the link to here - some photos of a gentleman that looks a lot like you holding one showed up.

Thanks again and all the best to you and yours this weekend.

Dwayne

Yes, this is the gun Venturino wrote about in Rifle Magazine some time back. I also have the Burgess shotgun which is also rare. This gun was featured in Shooting Sportsman last December by Steven Dodd Hughes...

Buffalo rifles with actual buffalo hunting provenance are quite rare. Here are a couple that survived the hard use in buffalo hunting in Montana.

The first is a Walter Cooper gun, customized by Walter Cooper in Bozeman, Montana Territory in the 1870's. It has his stamp on the barrel and is in 40-90 BN clambering, the preferred caliber in Montana at the time.

The second is another gun shipped to J. G. Dow of Bozeman and getting rebuilt by A. D. McAusland of Miles City, Montana Territory. It too is chambered in 40-90 B.N.

Both of these guns having survived the hard use and conditions of that era are rare...

Most not rare, but hard to find. Here's a few I have photos of.

Whitworth full stock 308



99C 7mm-08



336 in a .219 Zipper



Staggs Bilt 30-30-20



Ithaca Ultra featherweight 20



Remington 25 25-20 carbine



Winchester 94 button mag 16" 30-30

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1955 Marlin 56 checkered

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1959 99E

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99 375 One year only

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It would appear shrapnel is winning...




Travis

One that's on its way is a fun toy.
Garcia Bronco o/u 22/410

I remember an old neighbor that had a collection of very unusual firearms, most one-offs, with weird actions, none of which I had ever seen or heard of. At the time, I was just shooting and didn't know just how rare they were, just realized they were like nothing I had ever seen before. His widow sold the entire collection for $8K as I remember. One was probably worth that much. It was really a shame to see a lifetime collection gone in a blink, cut up and scattered to the wind.

Colt lightning SRC in 44-40. Uncommon to say the least, but rare in this condition...








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