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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
Posts: 51,063
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I'm looking for orginal guns....however there is a man named Brown in Yakima that builds reproduction Gibbs rifles..His price is about equal to an orginal if you can find one...
I may never aqquire the 1877 Sharps simply because of the money involved...I could do a ground up on my 911 for the kind of money 1877's are pulling...
The Axtel guns went down hill after they got a divorce and I had problems with Schofstall....I bought a High Grade 1875 in 40/90 put it in a vault where the engraved receiver got some rust on it, shipped it back to be refurbished....18 months later still no gun back and when they did send it back it had a shorter barrel on it..so it went back again...
The absolute best 1877 reproduction is owned by a friend of mine...Steven Dodd Hughs gets the final credit for making the gun, and is pictured in his book..It is literally better than an orginal...it is perfection.
Besides the 1875 repo, I have an 1878 Long Range 45/100, Winchester deluxe Highwall (Special Range Rifle) in 38/55....
As with almost all of the exotic Springfield guns, they can be put togethers. Unless it can be verified by serial number at SRS, I wouldn't buy one.
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