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VERY NICE JOE.
GREAT INFO TO HAVE.
CONGRATS
STEVE

Joe,

I have not been around much lately so may have missed it... any chance that you could post some pictures of your gun... especially the mount location details.

thanks

Joe's original post;
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/9762951/Is_it_worth_$900?#Post9762951

Thanks for posting that up for me. I was going to go back to my photo bucket. Sometimes things are just too easy for me to figure out.

Since the rifle lettered as being sold to Malcolm, I'd say that the mounts are in the proper place. If you want a close up of the front mount, let me know,, Joe.

a good picture of the front sight would be awesome! Is it dovetailed in?

Drew, the front sight is the early brazed on version. (1st photo)

I thought you may have meant the front scope mount, if so here's a pic of it. It's drilled to the barrel. The cutout in the center of the block is so you can use the tang sight and still see the front sight, and it has adjustment lines in it, Joe.

Joe have you got to shoot this one yet?

Nope, not gonna try till I get up on the farm with Gary. Plus, so far, I only have 7 vintage rounds of Sears and Roebuck my buddy found in his "old stuff" ammo locker. I do have a couple hundred 30-30 empties, a set of 250 dies, 25-35 dies, but still need the 22HP dies to squeeze them down all the way. And I'm broke. Might try selling a couple of my old chainsaws.

Here's a pic of the front sight. For being as beat up as the seller listed this gun to be, the front sight is in pretty good shape, Joe.

I always felt they put them on bassackwards.

Now that you said that, it does look bassackwards. I'll never look at one the same again.

I did mean the front scope mount. Thanks for the picture!

Drew, do you have a Malcolm to install?

have a rifle that either had a Malcolm or a climbing lyman... trying see how I can tell the difference.

Drew ,the Clyman Lyman requires 2 holes in the receiver,and Malcolm only needs one. Don

oh! I don't have a climbin lyman and did not realize that the rear portion actually required a hole... I guess I though it just held down by the pressure of leverage from the forward screw.

So I guess my gun was set-up for the malcolm!

Are you going to get it lettered to see if it sold to Malcolm? Cmhjohn has an 1899 A in 32-40 that lettered to Malcolm. We might come up with a new sub category of collectables, Joe.

Drew, that means it would have 2 holes in the barrel also?

yep. The hard part is going to be finding a scope and mount!