Gone Fly Fishing wrote on Apr 8^th, 2010 at 8:42am:


Many of us are just a little slow to join the forum...

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Creedmoormatch,
Thanks for the welcome!
I frequent a couple other forums - with the same user name (Huvius) so my posts over on those are pretty easy to search out.  That way, regardless of which forum I am posting on, everybody knows it's me (for better or worse... )
My Fraser is a very interesting piece.
From what I have pieced together, which is obviously conjecture for the most part - but some very expert conjecture at that (mostly others' not always mine...), is that it was originally an early model with the safety within the trigger guard.  It was later converted by Fraser to the newer top tang safety configuration and I suspect rebarreled to Fraser's 400/360 at the same time, which, by the way is the same as the 400/360 Purdey but with a different bullet design.
Anyway, the conversion work is definitely Fraser.
My rifle is a rather standard grade gun by Fraser standards - many were highly engraved - but mine has a simple border with most surfaces left open.
That being said, I feel the art of the Fraser rifle is in the design and the quality of the execution.  I doubt there is a genuine Fraser that isn't a best rifle in every respect.  The high level of adornment of some of them is just icing on the cake!
I know one forum member here has had my gun apart - hope he took plenty of pictures and measurements!
Here are a couple more pictures.  The beauty is often in the details...
A couple things of note that I want to point out.
See how the checkering runs right up to the metal of the top tang?  On an original top tang safety model, the checkering would have a border which runs parallel with the metal.  Also the border is different on the tang.


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I am a bit hesitant to revive this very old thread, but good information doesn't go stale with age.

The Fraser single shot rifle is one of the best ever produced, and I'm a fan.  These rifles are much to expensive for me to acquire a "collection" of them, but I did buy a really nice one in .303 some years ago in a Julia auction.

I'll share some images.  The first are re-sized from the auction photos and are credited to Julia.

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Once I got the rifle in hand, I did disassemble it to properly clean and lubricate it before using it.  Here are some of the photographs I took of the internals:


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Continuing with next post.

Curl

That is one beautiful rifle! Treasure it!

Neat piece. Thank you for letting us have a look at it. How does is shoot for you?

I'm surprised nobody has brought this one up.  Produced by Steve Earle and if anybody's seen or used Steve's products, they are top shelf. I have seen both the Fraser and Wesson actions by him on rifles and they are smooth and beautiful.
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