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This guy has a couple of nice rifles for sale.
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Fred,
Did you used to have that Mark I?
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No Jim, It's still in my wife's name since she bought it for me, it belongs to her. Nobody Used to own it in this house. Not yet anyway. I just wanted to show it off before it disappears down the road. It's an honest rifle.
Last edited by Fred; 04-09-2014 at 04:55.
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very nice rifle indeed - not one you see every day
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Both barrels have an "A" stamped under the date. I had been told in the past that it signifies a reclaimed barrel approved for reuse, but I don't know if it is true, or not.
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Matt, virtually every barrel I've seen the A on is the original barrel for that receiver. I've read on another thread on this forum of somebody else being once told that the A was stamped on a barrel to signify that the barrel wasn't chambered for a 30-03 caliber. That wasn't accurate of course because why would there be so very many rifles and barrels with an A on them made and dated during WWI? As John Beard has many times stated, nobody knows what the A stamp on barrels was meant to convey after WWI. However, I'm absolutely confident that both of the rifles are original in every part and have not undergone any overhaul or rebuild. Such has been stated about them both by John Beard himself.
Last edited by Fred; 04-10-2014 at 06:02.
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Thank you kindly Jim! I'd bought it with the intention of one day stumbling onto a Pedersen Device in a box of junk. You never know. Stranger stuff has happened. Anyway I'm making room in the gun cabinet for something else.Originally Posted by jimmyzwei
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