I've been studying the patent drawings and documentation this morning, trying to get a good feel for the action.  This action is 99+% according to the plans.  The only differences that I can see relate to keeping the lever closed, a roller bearing on the link of my action where it contacts the cocking lever and perhaps a difference in placement of the sear engagement screw in the trigger mechanism.  I think I see how to reassemble the striker into the breech block.  There is a pin hole on the rear ledge of the striker.  I believe that I will have to compress the spring in a suitable vise and slip a pin into the hole to retain it.  Then I drop the striker into the block and remove the pin.  The only thing wrong with that plan is that the striker spring looks a lot stronger that any pin that would fit the hole.

Runningiron- You've got a genuine DeHaas- Miller action. Serial # is probably around 100 (?), as it has no safety and the Canjar trigger shoe. The stock looks like one from Rufus Kline, who supplied that style, to the late Dean Miller, Neal Rice, Ron Long, etc.and others who shot the Coors matches. From the looks of the stock fit and the rounded corners on the action, it looks like a DIY project ( no offense).

Call Cyle Miller in St. Onge,SD with the serial # and he can tell you who bought it from them. He probably still has some of the instruction booklets and the video that came with the action.

Waterman- What did you want to know about the Hauck (Vermont)?

Good shooting.

Iron,
The trigger and the lever still make it a mid-80's or so action.The newer lever and the trigger w/push-button safety came around '88.  Sheer speculation on my part is that it's a custom serial number that the customer asked for when he ordered the gun. As long as the number was unique Dean would do that. If the 4th character is numeric I would say it was something significant to the owner. If its alpha, the the owner may have had another action with that same number, as I do. Cyle can probably help you there too.

The stock can be refitted easily- maybe Cyle is doing some work-ask him. If not, Earl Hines in Cody Wy. is an excellent man to work on it.

If you want to read about the action, get ahold of the following-

ASSRA News, Mar/Apr '86
ASSRA News, Nov/Dec '91
RIFLE Magazine, #145, Jan/Feb '93

and , of course, the de Haas books.

I missed the auction listing, do you know who's barrel it is?

You might also run the name past Russ Weber, the gentleman who made the breechseater. He's a great guy and will help you if he can.

Good shooting.