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I haven't followed this thread so it's been awhile. I pulled a few old pictures out of photobucket, for those who have used photobucket, if you haven't cancelled your membership all your pictures will still be there and you can retrieve them in their original resolution, I had to shrink these to get them small enough to use as attachments (and the limit is 5).

If you wish to get photo's back from photobucket to your computer here's a method to do that - Retreiving from photobucket

I think your right, the Febiger No2 & No3 from late 1910 were long rifle but did not really go into full production, seems like just a few exist - I've never seen a No2 semi-auto, all I've seen were converted to pump only, and I've only seen 3 No3's.

Here are some Savage 1912 pictures, all pictured are slightly different, several differences internally. The early guns did not have "crimped" in the roll stamp and had it added separate apparently with a hand stamp, most are crooked and poorly done, later guns had crimped included and the stamp moved to the top of the barrel..

While I was in photobucket I grabbed some more Febiger No3 pictures and a group of early semi-auto's. Febiger's in 22 Long Rifle had "crimped" in the barrel stamp, the picture also shows the stamp for the 22 Short version.

The early semi-auto's from the top, all introduced before WWI -

Winchester Model 1903, 22 Winchester Auto, early gun without a safety???? No one has every given me a logical explanation for that!
Febiger No 1, 22 Short
Nitro-Hunter No 1, 22 Short (house brand for Belknap Hardware)
Batavia Automatic Rifle, 22 Short
System Schmeisser 1912, 22 Long
Savage Model 1912, 22 Long Rifle
Remington Model 16, 22 Remington Autoloading
Febiger No 3, 22 Long Rifle as a semi-auto.

In the detail pictures you can see two plugged holes on the lefts side of the receiver, that is where the action lock would have been, all 3 No 3's I've seen had these hols plugged so it appears they used modified No 2 receivers, the Febiger/Baker guns in 22 Short had them but action locks are not really needed on a semi-auto, none of the other makers had them.

A Stevens my brother bought, it must be as old as I, I'm 76

A stainless/laminate 10/22 purchased in early-mid 1990s at Walmart. In fact, still the only SA rifle I own. I don’t understand why people replace barrels and triggers on 10/22s, because the trigger on this is absolutely fine and it is very accurate. Heck of a little gun. Kids love it.

Grade III browning from 1958.

Woah!!! That’s sweet! Can we see more of it?

a 40s win 74 for me, next is a early 50s win 63

I have no idea how old it is. One day I'll try and research the serial number. I have an OLD Belgian made Browning .22 semiauto. It still shoots great, too.