Somewhere along the line in the last few years I inherited a stripped receiver that looks to never have been used although it has a matte type finish on it. The only markings on it are Arnold Arms and Arlington, WA besides a number I assume must be the serial number. It appears it would be a short action, and that it uses the same thread guard screws as the Remington 700. Beyond that I know nothing about it but it looks to be fairly well made. Does anyone know if there are any parts around for these as I have been told Arnold had somebody make these actions for them.

Many thanks in advance for any info.

I believe Mark Stratton was at the auction when Arnold Arms went under...as I bought several barrels from him that were marked Arnold Arms during on of his classes at Trinidad State.

Might drop him a line, he might know who bought all the stuff.....

This is really going to piss you off, especially if you paid a lot for it.

I was living about 30 miles from Arnold Arms in the late 90's early 00's. I visited the factory about 3 or 4 times trying to figure out what the deal was with them

There might be a few actual Arnold rifles built on the allged Apollo action. I doubt it though. All the ones I have ever seen that were dubbed Apollo are M700 stainless rifles with Remington milled off and the octagonal top milled into them.

Arnold arms went the way of the dinosaur for a reason. They got into ATF trouble for milling M700 serial numbers off and refacing the actions and calling them Apollo and charing a lot more.

I think a Apollo actioned rifle was $5000 and a M700 rifle was $3000.

Most of them even used Remington M700 bolts. So there were a little lazy in there trickery.

Idared was at the same auction and they tried to sell off the Arnold Auction recievers and unfinished bolts. It was supposed to be a no minimum bid but they started the actioins and the right to produce them for $20k and had no takers. They then withdrew the "item".

D99, they did make an action. I had a booth adjacent to them at an Elk foundation show and saw a number of rifles made from the action. The went under for offering stocks in their company without an approval by the FTC. That is a very big no no and they got a very big fine that put them under. They did have an action and I saw a number of them at the auction. They were auctioning off the remaining parts, the jigs and CNC programming to build them. They were there in various stages of completion.

I've heard nothing but bad about these people, and some of it from people who claimed to be former employees. Glad they're gone, I damn near sent them something once.

As Chic has said they did make an action of their own, and it looks like it might have been fairly interesting to me. It resembles a Remington a bit but is not a perfect copy by any means. I do wish I would have paid a little more attention when Chic and I were looking at those parts that day, but never figured I would have any need or want to know.

The receiver in question was obtained from someone else who probably was also at the auction that day and must have been in a box of parts they bought. This person also had a pile of used barrels from the sale that day. As far as any great amount of money invested in it I can well afford to use it for a paper weight the rest of my life and not feel cheated. It's just that I oftened wonder what happened to those parts and if any were still around as they were there the day of the sale. I have heard several stories that other companies also made parts for the actions. I've also heard of some other business dealings Arnold had with others. Some of it was not to upstanding on one parties part from what I heard.

As Dempsey mentioned it is maybe best that they are no longer in business as some of the barrels I bought that day were kinda cobbled up as far as the threads were concerned. It also took a bit of research to figure out what a 257 Arnold and a 300 Arnold were, as I had a few barrels chambered for each that came from the auction. Suffice to say, they didn't turn any new ground.

Arnold arms at least got some of what they deserved... to go out of business. The one "good" thing you could say about them is they kept a good number of competent smiths in the area quite busy redoing their "custom" work. They pissed off a lot of people.
As far as the action goes I wouldn't want anything with their name on it. That being said, have it gone through and trued up by a smith you trust and it will probably be just fine.

Gentlemen

Arnold arms inventory and some machinery will be auctioned the 17th of April.

Time to expand the workshop

http://www.murphyauctions.net/arnoldarms.html#pic2


http://web.archive.org/web/20010405163847/www.arnoldarms.com/
Cheers
/ JOHAN

quote:

Originally posted by JOHAN:
Gentlemen

Arnold arms inventory and some machinery will be auctioned the 17th of April.

April 17, 18, and 19........Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

That was in 2002.

I think this window of opportunity has passed.



GV

NO S%%T!

GrandView

Sorry...

Better luck next time

Cheers
/JOHAN

As one of Arnolds parts suppliers.

Yes they did have some actions made by Nesika Bay.

They came to me as I was making the M70 type safety for them. They had 75 bolts that the thread timing was off. So I had to break them down into groups of three for timing and make safeties fit them.

They would also use what ever action the customer wished.

Jim Wisner
Custom Metalsmith