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March 20, 2009
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Henry Mero said
Thanks Michael and I,m awful glad someone got that 23″ ’94 who really appreciates it. Merry Christmas
Of the six 23 inch 1894’s made I have 2 of them! Pretty special guns for sure.
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
December 21, 2006
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Michael I nknow what You mean by “special”, that’s the way I feel about the extra heavy bbl’d ’94, being the only one, even being restored by Turnbull
W.A.C.A. life member, Marlin Collectors Assn. charter and life member, C,S.S.A. member and general gun nut.
March 31, 2009
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clarence said
Absolutely they do! I’ve had occasion to do this several times, by the simple method of rubbing with 0000 steel wool & oil, bearing down on the high-points, etc.; takes more rubbing than you might believe. Have any idea how Turnbull does it?
Clarence I don’t know how it was done. I don’t buy restored guns. Had the chance many times but it just isn’t my thing. There is a market for these guns. As far as I know the only thing I have that has been restored is a shotgun buttplate. I have a shotgun that someone removed the buttplate and installed a pad. It took me about 5 years of looking for the right buttplate with no luck. I made a pattern and carried it to over 50 gun shows. Bought a second gun and used the buttplate. My friend Walt cleaned up the buttplate and prepared it for re bluing. Roger re blued it and aged it back. Winchester 1887’s used 2 different widths on their steel shotgun buttplates. Mine happened to be the wider one.
I also have a reproduction sight elevator on a Colt Lightning large frame rifle. My gun lettered with Lyman sights front and rear that had been removed from the gun. Again, it took me about 4 years to find all the correct parts except the elevator. A Colt collector had the elevators made and I bought one. Lyman tang sights for a Colt are marked with either a C, O or L depending upon the model. C for the small frame, O for the medium frames and L with a large frame. The early Lyman #3 ivory bead front sights have a patent date, Pat Oct 9, 85 on the bottom and are not marked otherwise. A dealer in Oregon sold me the rear buckhorn sight. Leroy Mertz took the tang sight and screws off one of his guns at the Denver show. At the same show I was able to find the front sight and get some parts for the tang sight. The little flip part in the tang sight peep was broke.
