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Re: what is it?

Post by cottage cheese » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:24 pm

Grumpy";p="27128 wrote:The engraving is typical English small scroll.
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Post by shooter » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:40 pm

if tou see the rib carefully, you can see there was a hindsight which has been removed.
yes grumpy, it used to be a rifle.
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Post by cottage cheese » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:52 pm

shooter";p="27293 wrote:if tou see the rib carefully, you can see there was a hindsight which has been removed.
yes grumpy, it used to be a rifle.

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Re: what is it?

Post by Grumpy » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:34 pm

So a Rook rifle which has been bored out to .410 smoothbore ?

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Re: what is it?

Post by Grumpy » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:35 pm

CC, there`s no need to swear ( :wink: :lol: )

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Post by shooter » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:44 pm

thats right grumps though no one, either the seller or the shop pwners were sure of the original make.
they told us they wud be happy for me to post its pics on the web in case someone could identify the make of the original rifle.
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