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Some of you guys are members there ,I believe .........Anyone see the one the guy just found in "the trash " ?
Looks interesting ,,,low serial number ,,engraved ,and checkered with a pistol grip stock ...Is that a K ?

That's what I wanted to know...
That thing was very special in it's day. I can't believe it's been so poorly taken care of.. horse wreck maybe?
To my uneducated eyes, it does look like a K.

Looked again ....That was a special rifle back in the day ...............Fancy grade stock ..could be circassian walnut..
1b lyman peep site ? .... checkered ................Special order .............Not a K ,,They didnt come out till 285000 serial numbers .........and are takedowns ,,,,His is a solid frame ,,,,,Pretty cool none the less

It's a Leader Grade. Illustrated in Murray's book, page 5-12 (page from a 1905 Savage catalog). Cost: $45. And yes, a shame what happened to it.

What do you think its worth the way it is ? .....

Hard to say. Not much documentation of sales of that grade gun in that condition. Whatever it's worth to the individual would be my standard answer.

It's tough to tell what the bluing is like in his pictures. The lever looks blued to me, which means the rifle has probably been totally reblued as well as the many screws in the stock.

It is what it is, it's almost surely not financially worthwhile to restore it. Though I do think a few hundred $$ in stock work to remove and hide the many screws would make it a much nicer conversation/display piece.

Can someone post pics here for those of us who don't have a Facebook account?

Don't know if you'll be able to see this or not, but try clicking on these and you might be able to see pics. Trying to embed it doesn't seem to work.

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Yep I can see them. Thanks!

Shame. Where was this found in a trash container. Did the finder keep it, give it away, or sell it. I'd think even though any true collector value is compromised, it would be worthwhile to fix properly, maybe be a shooter if the barrel bore is any good. I'd take on the challenge if it isn't to far gone.
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I would lean to having a professional repair the wood and leave everything looking aged the way it is. I think if you try to fix it up it would just look like another Bubba'ed rifle.

Speaking to me or everyone in general?? If me, guess if you've never seen the work I've done on broken stocks, dinged stocks, etc., yer speaking before knowing. If me, I forgive ya anyway, no hard feelings. Maybe and I know their are those that could do a better job than I, but then I wouldn't have the satisfaction of a job done by myself. With that rifle, it's not that any restoration will restore any full value. Anyway---hate seeing a 99 in that shape.

He was speaking in general to whoever owns the rifle, not to you.

If a guy just fixed the blatant problems with screws and bad stock repair, then you'd have an honest looking 117 year old rifle that would be a cool display or conversation piece. If a guy tried to restore or replace the stock - you'd have a new looking stock on an old looking receiver and it'd look "odd". If you tried to restore the entire gun, it'd be expensive to get quality people to put it back to what it should look like - and odds are it wouldn't end up looking like new and it would cost more money than it would be worth afterwards.

What a pity.

I wouldn't throw her out of bed

If that gun was a horse, it would be shot and put out of it's misery.

In full agreement Rick, a good stock man could work wonders.

Somebody already did. Unfortunately the bed was in an airplane.