Gibbs APUN# 837, .303 British. I first handled this rifle a little more than 15 years ago and thought to myself at the time, this rifle should live with me and today it does. Really looking forward to getting this one in the field.
This rifle was re-barreled by Gibbs after 1925 and is not Metford rifled. The fore end has wood inlaid to fill in from a larger diameter barrel that was previously on the rifle, my guess is that it started out life as a .461 Gibbs.
Plenty of questions on the Gibbs rifles. It is a shame the books were lost. Sporters in original configuration are very rare, most having suffered the indignity of conversion to American varmint rifles or other poorly thought out modifications.
I have put a few back to the correct configuration and have another on the bench now, just slightly earlier than the above rifle, it had been turned into a varminter and had a G&H style stock on it when I acquired it, now re-barreled with a new Krieger tube to .303 British and just waiting for me to regulate the sights and stock it.
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
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