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Found a rifle on my place... #5582859 02/05/15 01:06 AM
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It was just laying in my pasture. Fairly certain its been run over, mowed over, disc'd and cow stompted a few hundred times. I think it is a Stevens falling block. Not a .22 though, as the bore is larger than that. The barrel is octagon for the first 8 or 9" changing to round for the remainder. When I first picked it up I thought it was an old hand brake lever...










Trade value $1,638.43... bolt

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Cool find

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Wow! That is neat!


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Does it shoot?







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That's freakin awesome!! Would love to know the stories it could tell.

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That is awesome!!!! Good find.

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Oh wow, that is pretty cool.

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Neat find.


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Awesome find!!

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That's an awesome find. I'd make a plaque for it and display it somewhere.


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I had the $1638. But the 43 cents? Now you are just another scalper trying to take advantage.




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That is a neat find


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That's cool. Congrat's on an amazing find.


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Originally Posted By: BigPig
Does it shoot?


Funny, I was concerned it was loaded. To check it out I ran a piece of bailing wire down the muzzle scared. The end of the wire became visible at the hammer... (actually, I guess it was visible at the block)

But I'll let you give it a test run BP.

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Cool find!

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Originally Posted By: TXHOGSLAYER
I had the $1638. But the 43 cents? Now you are just another scalper trying to take advantage.


Front sight is missing, I'll spot you the $0.43 up

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Those are the kind of things that I find difficult to throw away... and difficult to find a perfect place to put it.

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Originally Posted By: swmays
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I had the $1638. But the 43 cents? Now you are just another scalper trying to take advantage.


Front sight is missing, I'll spot you the $0.43 up


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Dang neat find. cheers Bet there is a story behind how it got there also. It appears the hammer was back on it also? I found a spent rimfire casing from the late 1800's that had been misfired. Then I guess taken out of the rifle and put back in the rifle and tried a second time. I could tell this by the 2 sets of crimps marks.


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That's freakin awesome!! Would love to know the stories it could tell.


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That is a crazy cool find! If that old rifle could talk, just imagine the stories it might have to tell. It would be really neat to know it's story, darn shame that it will go untold.


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That's awesome! You need to let me come out and do some metal detecting to see what else we can find!


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Cool find.




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Originally Posted By: BigPig
Does it shoot?
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Just like new up Put a 50 round Banana clip in there and hold down on the trigger and a Rat a Tat you go laugh bolt


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