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The previous owner used it to good effect on many elephant in Africa and added the scope due to failing eyesight in his old age. Overall an extraordinary pre-war take down Mauser rifle in very fine condition and even has the original untouched spare front sight stowed in the pistol grip compartment.

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Originally posted by lawndart:
JJ will do a better job than the lads at Holland & Holland.

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Originally posted by R D Show:
If the British were so great why did we fight a war with them and through them out of this country

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
what a shame..

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The previous owner used it to good effect on many elephant in Africa and added the scope due to failing eyesight in his old age. Overall an extraordinary pre-war take down Mauser rifle in very fine condition and even has the original untouched spare front sight stowed in the pistol grip compartment.

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
I emailed, asking what a "damaged" one was actually worth. Somehow, the fact that this rifle is in Kentucky seems appropriate...

Rich
DRSS
replicate...don't mutilate

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
you did ask me, right?

My brother-in-law, henceforth known as the BIL, married a girl from KY (I always thought that was where they made the jelly) and ended up moving back there to run the family farm. They had a family get-together and my wife and here sister decided to go last summer. They drive down from my Mom's house outside of St Louis and Sturgis is where they live. This neighbor of his is 38 years old, and does not have any of his teeth left. Not since the 10th grade. He is at the party, works for the BIL and is trying to eat corn on the cob without his falsies. When they say "falsies" they mean teeth, not what we think here. The BIL tells us this guy decides to find a woman to marry about 18 months ago, since his live-in ran off with a truck driver she met at the truck stop where she was employed. He isn't having any luck and the BIL suggested he get some dentures made to enhance his chances with the opposite sex. He does, and they do, and he got married at Christmas. Puts the teeth up...Ralph says "Bobby-Joe, where are your teeth?". B-J tells the assembly of about 80 people that he did get himself a woman, and doesn't need to wear them anymore. I swear on my grandmother's grave this is true. One of the ladies (black) there is raising her grandchildren (common story) because her daughter is a crackhead. The boy's name is Dijon...his mother named him after her (I swear!!) after the mustard they had at this shelter home she stayed at her last two months of the pregnancy. My niece is his age,nine, and the kids there all play together with no apparent color distinctions. Except the niece starts talking about "her daddy this and that" and this kid starts bawling and hauls freight for home. Ralph has to remind his daughter that she is not to talk like that (dad stuff) around this Dijon kid because there isn't one at his house. There are about eight or nine kids from the niece's school there, and all of them are packing little wooden wedges between their front two teeth. My wife makes the mistake of asking why on God's Green Earth they are doing that...the explaination is that it makes it easier to spit chew juice out at the playground spitting contests at the middle school. My niece is upset because she is the only one that can't do that. She often refers to Ralph as "that yankee that my momma married"...not realizing sometimes that it is her father she refers to. My BIL is not quite accepted in the county as "one of us" because he has kindly passed on the annual opportunity to join the KKK branch there, that his father in law and two BIL's belong to. But is well regarded, they do not view anybody born and raised in Montana as a real Yankee with a capitol "Y". More like a westerner, like Roy Rogers and them all folks.

Do you want the other thirteen pages from my wife's journal, or is that enough for you? Rule #3C: never ask a question you do not know the answer to in public unless you are ready for the worst.

Rich
DRSS

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Originally posted by ireload2:
I told you you would be sorry.
It is a magnum Mauser too.

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Originally posted by Bent Fossdal:

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Originally posted by ireload2:
I told you you would be sorry.
It is a magnum Mauser too.

OK, ladies, what are we most disgusted about? The Weaver's or the Buhler? Anybody cares to take a guess which one came originally from the grand H&H?

A, The Weavers
B, The Buehler
C, Both

See, the truth is that all the answers could be the right one. English gunmakers can do absolutely anything, being devine, you know - and you guys are the proove to that.

When it comes to boltrifles, theese gunhouses have made them at almost any price. Because, like any other buisnesses, they will do anything for money.

You see, if a client brings in a gun to its original gunhouse for alternation, they will please their customer, not tell them they are crazy.
I really do not see the difference if a gun is fitted with Weavers in London or Kentucky.

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Originally posted by RIP:
Dr. Drake is doing us Kentuckians proud here, once more, offering up his own personal using rifle for sale at "price reduced," complete with ugly Weaver rings and bases. The retired OB/GYN, MD, is now an honorary PhD in OB/GUN: Obnoxious Gunology.