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2) UNUSUAL AND ATTRACTIVE FULL CUSTOM "GEMMER" STYLE .45-70 SPRINGFIELD TRAPDOOR OCTAGON SPORTER! Obviously a great deal of time and money was spent building this really beautiful custom rifle. A little history: J.P. Gemmer purchased the famed Hawken shop (makers of the famous Plains Rifle prized by the mountain men and frontiersmen of the fur trade era) in St. Louis, Missouri in 1864. He operated the shop until 1915 and saw the great transition from muzzle loaders to cartridge guns. Gemmer was known to take cartridge guns and re-barrel and re-stock them in the Hawken muzzle loader style. He was especially known for his Spencer conversions as well as Sharps and Trapdoor Springfields. Interestingly, Ballard produced their No.5 Pacific rifle and No. 5 1/2 Montana rifle with the wiping rod under the barrel as factory production models for the frontier. This rifle uses a Trapdoor action with serial number 460XXX from 1889 (making this rifle an antique and not requiring an FFL for purchase). It is fitted with a blued 28" octagon barrel with Rocky Mountain blade front sight and Sharps style Lawrence full buckhorn ladder rear sight with slide. The striped maple stock shows rich color and is double-keyed or "wedged" to hold the barrel. The stock has a pewter tip and double cleaning rod thimbles to hold the cleaning rod. It also has sling swivel studs- one in the butt stock and one attached to a thimble under the barrel. The lock plate is unmarked and the breech block is marked "U.S. MODEL 1873." The rifle is fitted with double set triggers housed in a Hawken-style flowing trigger guard and the butt stock has a cheek piece plus curved butt plate with toe plate. It also has a long upper tang as found on Hawken rifles which also helps to reinforce and strengthen the wrist. All in near new , unused condition with only a few spots of minor freckling on the barrel. Weighs approx. 10 1/4 lbs. This rifle would cost a fortune to make from scratch! $3450.
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