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Was playing on google tonight looking for old articles and saw that Heritage Auctions is selling one of Page's 7mm mashburns. It's item number 6081.

The one I would like to find is his Remington 375 Weatherby.

Ted

It's there Ted....have at it!

Gotta be "it" from the description.

I was reading the description,old Betsy has a 22" barrel,he only used one load for everything,a 175gr bullet @ 3050fps.That's purty good for a 22" barrel.I guess H4831 was his go to powder for the Mashburn.

Bidding opens on 11/20/12.....month and a half to get finances in order.

Think they'll take kids in trade on it?

My kids are too old and my only Granddaughter is too cute. I'm going to have to come up with something else. Bank robbery, diamond thief, something.

Either one of the 7MM Mashburns or the .375 Bee would be very cool to have.

From what I can tell Arthur McGreevy passed this last spring and this is his estate cashing out. McGreevy was the Pres. of the Nat. Resturant assoc. at one time.

I wonder if they would take some timber land in trade for the .375 and Old Betsy #1. I probablly can't generate that much cash unless I liquidate my land holdings. SIGH !!!!!

Always wanted a .375 weatherby after reading one man's wilderness

Bob:

The description of the .375 B is wrong. It was built on one of the very first Rem. 721 actions. So whom ever wrote the auction detail/description hasn't read Pages article describing it.

I remember the articles Page wrote of his 7mm Mashburn. Brings back memories and dreams.

I've got 2 real cute grandkids.

As a teen in the 60's I certainly was in awe of Warren's travel. I kept a F&S copy from 1967 or so where he went fishing for Nile Perch on Lake Rudolph from a Nova Scotia lobster boat. The article is called "Trolling for Tram cars". God I loved those articles. Fired my imagination beyond my humble up bringing. I REALLY wanted to see the world. Hunting to me is adventure travel.

http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6081&lotIdNo=29015#Photo

He sure had that scope mounted way forward. Must have been a stock crawler.

DF

From the pictures, it looks like there was no adjustment either forward or backward with that scope and rings on that rifle.

Really makes me wonder why the receiver ring wasn't drilled and tapped for the scope base. You'd play hob trying to get one of the modern scopes mounted to that set up.

I thought Page was left handed. The rifle appears to be set up for a right handed shooter.

I'm sure there were no left handed rifles back when Page alive. And would have been prohibitively expensive to have one modified. I don't know if he was left handed or not. Was an engineer by training.

Warren was left eye dominant and trained himself to shoot right handed. He had an English degree from Harvard, was a scholarship ball player, and played semi-pro baseball to make money in addition to crewing on a big game boat out of Nantucket(?). He was a gifted technical writer but was not an engineer by training.

Doc: They called the 375 Weatherby as built on a Rem 700 but could have confused that for the Rem 721 he used.I think the stock is a Lenard Mews...no?

Dirtfarmer: Those old Redfields and Stith/Morgan Bear Cubs(not sure which one it is)had lloonngg! eye relief (awesome!)which allowed forward mounting.I think the ring mounting on the rear sight extended base is cool and a nice custom touch.


I would give my left nut to own one of those Mashburns....

But if not, no bigga deal.....I got a Mashburn Super of my own and since I built it, have very little desire for anything else.I don't need anything else.