Ben said
I take back most of the kind words I said about you.... maybe some of the kind words... never mind...lets just go eat BBQ, Jeremy will pay.  
  

Cheapest meal you'll ever get, will only cost you one "5-SPOT".

Ben said
Mike, as you feller's say down south... she shore is purdy!  Sometimes that's all it takes for me to open my wallet.... 
  

The cool sights probably caught your eye, pretty wood has loosened my wallet on more occasions than I care to admit. Can't quite afford a Purdey but I like looking at them!

 Mike

Ben said
Boy did you jog my mind.... Cherry bombs, silver salutes, quarter sticks... all fond memories of my youth!  I'm too show to light a fuse & run away or toss (my arm is shot) and I don't trust my scooter to get away in time either.  Ah... the wonder years!  It's a wonder I didn't blow my hand off. 🙂  See you in October!
  

Quarter sticks? I think some folks around here called them M-80's but I don't know much about such things. Remember bottle rockets? I'll neither confirm nor deny my role in an epic bottle rocket battle on the Brazos River near Palo Pinto, TX 50 years and a few months ago. There may have even been a naval contingent since someone had a key to the canoes. Could be why I wasn't invited back for a second year of camp staff.

Mike

Ben said
I take back most of the kind words I said about you.... maybe some of the kind words... never mind...lets just go eat BBQ, Jeremy will pay.  
  

We'll see. He picked up the bar tab at the Elkhorn in Meeteetse and look how that turned out! 

Mike

Chuck said
My reference books say there are no cartridges that you can use to form this brass.  A machinist could make some on a lathe with 3/8" solid brass.  Steven's made a lot of really long and skinny cartridges.
  

Thanks, pretty much what I found. I guess Ben didn't buy it for a shooter. 

Mike

Mike

I don't see anything that would make me think that the stevens had been refinished. Thanks for showing us your new rifle, definitely the case colors look right to me.

Ken

Mike

Ben said
At the same place I found the boxed Win 62, just as I was leaving the owner pulled this Stevens 44 to temp me... and he succeeded.  It's a model 44... double set trigger, mid range windage sight, front Beaches combination... I pretty certain that it's been restored (something I usually shy away from) and it's in an obsolete caliber,  "22-15 SS" (something I also shy away from). I still had to bring it home! I'm sure my wife will understand...
If anyone here has a box of ammo, brass or dies, I'm in need. The single round pictured was from a customer that came into the shop right after I bought the rifle... he was going to buy the rifle. He wasn't very happy... the shop owner said he had been beating him down for the last 6 months on the price and decided to sell it for less than his last offer... I got very lucky. Obviously, the guy with the round wouldn't sell it to me... still, life is very good.

I need to find a gun shop like you've been finding these treasures at