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Originally posted by RMiller:
I bid $5000

With guys like you around I'm reminded of this cartoon.

RMiller

Are you related to David? Seems to me somebody (possibly you) on this forum said they were David Miller's nephew. I think we were talking about stock duplicating machines and I had mentioned that I had seen photos of three machines from three different shops (David Millers, Sterling Davenport's and Harry Lawson) that all looked the exact same and you (or someone) said that machine was designed by David Miller.

I wouldn't mind having a copy of that price list. Got anymore of them.

Yes I am a nephew of David's.

But I don't know much about stock duplicating machines.

I can make a copy of mine to send you. I need to make my way to a copy machine this week anyway.

I brought up the "short" extractor in the first thread. They do make aftermarket "magnum-length" extractors for just this situation. I was surprised that the original was left in place, but perhaps the longer ones were not generally available when this gun was built. There is no functional difference, only cosmetic. The rear end of the extractor rests against and rotates on the bolt body, often burnishing a "ring" on it. When the extractor is long enough that the rear end is within the rear bridge, the burnished ring is hidden by the bridge.

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Originally posted by 22WRF:
RMiller

Are you related to David? Seems to me somebody (possibly you) on this forum said they were David Miller's nephew. I think we were talking about stock duplicating machines and I had mentioned that I had seen photos of three machines from three different shops (David Millers, Sterling Davenport's and Harry Lawson) that all looked the exact same and you (or someone) said that machine was designed by David Miller.

I wouldn't mind having a copy of that price list. Got anymore of them.

I'm not aware of the machine that Sterling, David have, but I know that Harry designed his own machine from scratch and I was pretty sure that Sterling and David both had used his design at one time or the other.
Both guys had worked in Harry's shop before they got their big breaks in the business.

Matt

You can see a photo of David Miller's machine in Tom Turpin's book entitled 'Mastery of Wood and Metal", and you can see a photo of Sterling Davenport's machine in "The Gun Digest Book of Riflesmithing". Both machines look almost identical to a photo I once saw of Harry Lawson's machine. I wish I could find another photo of Harry Lawson's machine.

It looks like a Herters stock to me. :-)
I mean the Maple

Rich