Bob

Burt Humphrey said
As those with a keen interest in the Model 1892 already know, a checkered variation which is original, correct, has condition and letters is a rare speciman. They are not as hard to find as a deluxe 53 or 55 but the good one's have been tucked away in collections.

PURE BEAUTY RIGHT THERE!

I don't see how people can pay big dollars on art, such as paintings, when items like this exist.  As I said, pure beauty.

Burt - you collected some really find rifles over the years.  I always enjoy seeing them.  Always nearly unbearable eye candy.  There's this sin out there called envy, and I am surely not free of it.

Mike

Tony

IMHO Kevin made a wise choice sending this special project your way. If anyone can pull it off, you can. 

Mike

kevindpm61 said
I got great news from Wyoming Armory today. The barrel arrived last week and the preliminary assessment is that it is correct for the rifle!
  

Ha! It's certainly been a process having that barrel blank made.  Of course no barrel maker on God's green earth had a profile for an extra length 28" Hotchkiss sporting rifle barrel - or a standard length for that matter.  Because Kevin's had a non-original replacement barrel installed, we didn't have an original barrel to measure the profile.  It took us months to track down original Hotchkiss sporting rifles that owners would let us measure profiles.  Then we had to extrapolate the profile of the extra barrel length and compare it to the barrel channel in the original stock to make sure it matched.

Next, not a single barrel blank maker who offers the correct land & bore dimensions & twist rate in a 6-groove barrel would make that "one-off" profile for us.  We ended up having to commit to a large volume purchase of 1-in-22 twist 45 caliber barrels from a maker in Montana so that he would commit to buy the tooling for this one special order barrel.  After a long wait, we received the barrel and it had been made too short. Because it's such a special profile, we just had to absorb the cost of that blank. After another long wait, we just received the replacement and it appears to be correct.

Kevin's been faithful about updating the progress, but I think it's given the impression that we take an abnormally long time to rebarrel a rifle.  Usually we can have a blank in a standard configuration made in 4-6 weeks.  One-off special profiles can take dramatically longer.  

After a recent similar experience with having a 1894 22" extra light, 1/2 octagon blank made in 38-55, we're a little gun shy about taking on projects with very special order barre profiles, at least until we finish putting together the equipment needed to start profiling our own barrel blanks.  Mark 

Type: Rifle
Caliber: 45/60
Barrel Type: Octagon
Barrel Length: 26 inches
Trigger: Plain
Received in warehouse on January 06, 1882
Shipped from warehouse on January 14, 1882, Order number 30868

See Maverick's comments above...it would have been brand new.

This rifle is not known to exist today.

Tony. R said

Tony. R said

Thants interresting Michael, can you remember when and where you seen it listed, when i got the rifle there was no auctions hear in Australia, and checking through my past posts I did mention it on this sight some yrs ago.
Im just a bit curious.
tony
  

Tony,

My mistake I think.  I had the rifle "listed" as being in Australia but as you can tell from my spreadsheet there is not information regarding the caliber stamp, proof marks, barrel address, upper tang or sights.  Nor did I have WACA or your name associated with it.  Years ago an AU collectors sent me some images of old AU auction listings so I assumed that was where I had gotten the info.

Michael

Chris D said
So lets see a picture of this beauty Tony....
  

unfortunatly, Chris i traded for a delux 73 , quite a few yrs ago to a friend, (stupid me ) and he still has it, but it has never been on the net, thats why im curious as to where Michael had seen it from an auction sight. I bought it in 1979 for $300, off a friend in sydney who owned it for yrs. I can trace the history back over 50yrs. so if it was in an auction it would of been in the 60s.

Ain't no telling were that rifle is. It won't show up until one day when it finally does and that is if it ever does.

Sincerely,

Maverick

Will pay top dollar or trade NIB Boy Scout plus $$

Thank you 

Randy