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Outages like that are pretty rare these days. Did you try to fire up a wifi hotspot on your phone? Works for me when we visit relatives with no internet.

Momma said there's gonna be days like this...

Me to, used all luck getting my wife, everything has been [bleep] since then, lol.

It went down literally just seconds before the lot was on. I'd have been hard pressed to even log in on a second device if I'd been prepared.

And yeah, I do have a couple devices that could have provided a hot spot. Just no time.


Don't know for sure whether the bolt was an 1895 or 1899 bolt. Barrel was listed as 22", so it might have gotten the $5 upgrade with new bolt but it didn't get a different barrel.

Aren't the early 1899 bolts the same as 1895s? I have an 1899 made in 1899 and from what I can tell the bolt is the same as an 1895. However I don't have an 1895 to compare it too, just pictures.

Same dimensions, yes. For $5 they would swap the bolt and a few internal parts. The list of what was included is in the 1900 catalog repro somewhere, if you have one of those.

The major difference was the change of the cocking indicator to a rocker on top of the bolt instead of the hole in the bolt with stamping on the firing pin.

Yep.

"It is possible to convert the 1895 model into the 1899 model, for which there is a charge of $5.00. This change necessitates a new breech-bolt, hammer indicator, sear, firing pin, hammer, extractor and retractor."

Oh hell !

I wondered what that thundering roar coming from up North was 😉

But you are correct, it was Fate. A better one is about to come out of a family closet in NE. For less dollars … wait ! … let’s not confuse optimism with hallucination and just stick with “a better one” 😁

I had that happen and called the number listed for the auction house. A polite lady answered. I frantically told her I had been bidding on an item and the internet dropped me. It was a soft bid sale, so the guy bidding agains me extended the item 3 minutes when he bumped me. She asked my max bid then asked me to hold. She bid one more time at the next increment, which extended it 3 more minutes. With ten seconds left she did a count down and said you got it. It was a local sale with pick up only. She said, “ When you get here, don’t go to the cashier, come to the office. I couldn’t get you logged back in, so I bid for you on the house number.” So I got it.

Nice lady!

That is a shame. I have two 1895's but I have never laid eyes on a carbine.