A friend of a friend is cleaning out his late father’s house and came across this, um, er, custom rifle. The armory is hidden under the back end of the rib so I can’t tell if there are heat treatment problems. It’s actually a pretty nice piece of wood.

Let me guess its a 6.5 Creedmore !!!!!

Stippling instead of checkering....very euro-chic!

That is so horrible it is almost art

Wow! It’s a 1903 Schuetzen-Unsingle. Very rare (luckily)

Looks like a very rare "Trap Rifle".

like most of us.. i sorta scratch my head....but, then i think about the time period when this rifle was probably made...the maker obviously didn't have access to a lot of info that we have available today, such as the photos, etc of work by duane wiebe, james anderson and others.... maybe, not such a bad piece of work, given the above!!..plus,it's probably better than anything i could do...lol..jw

looks like a great rifle to buy.

Price should be low.

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Originally posted by bradhe:
That is so horrible it is almost art

probably from Hunter Biden no doubt.

No he was too busy in his sister-in-laws bedroom to do such nice work!

Hip

Mmmm.

Must be one of those fancy Shitzen rifles I’ve heard about

It's a single heat treat, low number Springfield; don't shoot it.

Tom, would it be safe to shoot as a cast bullet gun, assuming everything is in order?

Yes, and might be perfectly safe for anything. The Marines used theirs without reservation, and when they rebuilt them they drilled a big gas hole in the left side. The Army withdrew all theirs and sold them to Bannermans.
I have a RIA low number that is cracked in two places, lengthwise. As in, cracked almost in two.

Seems to me one of the old custom Springfield builders actually re-heat treated some of those low-number receivers. Can't remember which outfit.

Just happened to crack open Petrov's "Custom Gunmakers of the 20th Century," and it was R.F. Sedgely of Philadelphia who bought the low-numbered Springfield actions. From page 73:
"These actions were inspected, annealed, had the markings ground off and were then re-heat treated and proof tested to 80,000 psi. This re-heat treating service was also offered to members of the NRA, who could have their low number gun inspected for free."

I grew up in Philadelphia and it amazes me that Sedgely was located in North Philadelphia. My father told me that at one time that was a decent neighborhood. Today it's a ghetto with daily shootings. Hard to imagine a gunsmith doing business there.

I was listening to Kevin Robertson on The Big Game Hunting podcast earlier this week discussing lion follow up. He opined that he thought a dedicated follow up rifle might do well with a rib and a large front sight and no rear for fast, instinctive shooting at short range.