This rifle is the cousin of the low wall in my other post. The description from my dad's inventory:

Winchester high sidewall falling block SS .22 cal rifle w/ octagon barrel. The main stock is still rough, the lever has a braised repair.

Again, thanks to all.

This rifle is not in my possession, have not seen it except in these pictures for 25+ years, so I can't speculate on it. Maybe someone here has seen this on another rifle. I doubt either of my brothers would know.

RJM wrote on Nov 8^th, 2010 at 7:51am:



Thats what I think it is. Theres nothing at that part of the hammer that will effect sear engagement. If it were to have a adjustment screw, it would be behind the hammer in the frame. 

                          Joe. 

It looks like that gun has a SST so, I'm not sure that a sear engagement would be needed or wanted. If you look on a diagram of the hammer, you'll see that it could have engaged the main sear at a fairly steep angle making for a slow sensitive adjustment and maybe salvaged from another gun that was a plain trigger ????????

Thanks Joe, I just looked at a the drawing in Frank DeHass's book and took a stab at it. I really can't see a purpose for the hole. I sure wouldn't have lighten it that way. Maybe it's to redirect the wind to the muzzle to cancel out the wind conditions or..............just maybe it makes a nice soothing whistle that would relax the shooter and ease his trigger pull??????

Frank

It looks like two different people worked on revising that Highwall.  The first did the forend, with maybe a buttstock that was discarded afterwards by another owner.  It appears as if somebody else put on another buttstock and perhaps the lever extension, but never finished the project.  It is in the process of being restocked for a high-mounted target scope; maybe it was in another configuration when the original forend was replaced by that beavertail job.  Check and see if the inside of the lower tang is discolored.  If so, it was bent for the pistol grip stock by the gunsmith who was rebuilding it.

It has the single-set trigger, from the screw behind the trigger, but the trigger looks thicker than normal.  Maybe an optical illusion from the photo(?)

Are those letters stamped on the left side of the barrel near the receiver, or is that just marring from taking the barrel off?