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Post by biblethumpncop on Jul 24, 2022 10:01:20 GMT -5
Check out this ad. I wonder who the gun writer(s) were. I never remember reading any articles about it. I was curious because I recently bought a like-new model 761 with the box for cheap. www.gunbroker.com/item/940412233 |
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Post by jeffh on Jul 24, 2022 11:08:59 GMT -5
I don't know myself, but you'd think the seller would want to be a bit less cryptic for credibility's sake.
I've heard a lot of vague, non-committal hints as to who had owned what was being offered for sale and never believed a one of them. Not that it matters that much to me, but show me a letter or show me the article. I think the gun has merit enough without the implied legend.
It IS a neat gun though. Would be neat if revolver AND lever-gun makers were able to offer more of this chambering, especially the combo in a revolver. The Buckeyes were cool, but they seemed awfully large and heavy to me, but my preferences are certainly not everyone's preferences.
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Post by contender on Jul 25, 2022 9:47:08 GMT -5
Buy the gun, not the story. Unless you have solid, verifiable provenance of who the owner was.
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Jul 27, 2022 9:18:23 GMT -5
Who says old guys can't remember stuff? Jan Libourel, wrote of a single Mdl. 76 in .32-20 in the Guns & Ammo 1992 Annual Handguns publication, Page 20. The advertisement doesn't agree with that article. Serial numbers don't match up.
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Post by jeffh on Jul 27, 2022 9:30:15 GMT -5
Who says old guys can't remember stuff? Jan Libourel, wrote of a single Mdl. 76 in .32-20 in the Guns & Ammo 1992 Annual Handguns publication, Page 20. The advertisement doesn't agree with that article. Serial numbers don't match up. Which might lead to yet another inconsistency - that there wasn't necessarily just ONE, or someone read the article, liked the idea and paid someone to make one just like it.
Pretty good recollection for an "old guy," Ken. Around that time - early eighties to sometime before "Y2K," I read a lot of the periodicals and kept a big stack of those annuals they put out. I remember a lot of good writing on interesting stuff. A couple that still come back to me are one by Ken Waters (I believe) "Looking for walnut accuracy in a watermelon patch" when testing the then new Remington Model Seven, and Hal Swigget and his 3" pathfinder with a single ring holding a small scope on it for squirrel-hunting.
I believe Boge Quinn inherited that Pathfinder from Jeff when he passed. Jeff told me he had it.
NOTE: I wasn't ol' pals with Jeff Quinn or anything. That guy was just so nice he'd stop and talk to anyone like they were a neighbor.
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Post by taffin on Jul 27, 2022 9:35:31 GMT -5
As always buyer beware. Years ago I was at a gun show and the exhibitor had a copy of one of my articles opened in the magazine with a .500 Linebaugh lying on the article. I asked him about it and not knowing who I was he proceeded to tell me all about it and how I had written about it. He was somewhat speechless when I told him who I was and I had never seen that particular gun before. The real Linebaugh in the article is still in my safe.
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Post by jeffh on Jul 27, 2022 9:47:27 GMT -5
As always buyer beware. Years ago I was at a gun show and the exhibitor had a copy of one of my articles opened in the magazine with a .500 Linebaugh lying on the article. I asked him about it and not knowing who I was he proceeded to tell me all about it and how I had written about it. He was somewhat speechless when I told him who I was and I had never seen that particular gun before. The real Linebaugh in the article is still in my safe. That, Sir, is CLASSIC! 
I not earned the status to pull something like that off myself, but I'd pay to watch it unfold, even just once. I don't necessarily revel in someone being embarrassed, but some folks (especially at gun shows) buy it in large installments over many years and, luckily, never see the payout.
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