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harry_eales Ex Member	Ballards and Borchardts. Dec 7^th, 2013 at 2:56am	Print Post
	Just in time for Christmas or for your next birthday a new book has hit the market by none other than Tom Rowe., see :- (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) Click on the URL and then on the cover of the book, this will let you preview every picture and page. Priced at $104.99 plus postage it is enough to make any fancier of these two rifles need a towel to catch the drool. Beautiful photographs and worthy of a place in any gun book collection. Take a look first it only takes a couple of clicks of your mouse. Then tell the little lady you'd like it, hint, hint. Harry Edit. I spent an hour or so looking through the pictures this morning after finishing my chores and sadly found that no one had apparently done a 'proof reading' on what can only be called a very limited amount of text, there are spelling errors, something which should not have happened in a book of such quality. Well known authors such as Dutcher are occasionally misspelt as Ditcher. Still it won't stop me buying a copy. Harry
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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #1 - Dec 7^th, 2013 at 11:03am	Print Post
	Quote: ...it is enough to make any fancier of these two rifles need a towel to catch the drool.Harry Dutcher's book (with NO misspellings) so totally exhausted my salivary glands that now I have to take medication for dry-mouth syndrome. Unfortunately, I need a new snow-blower worse than another coffee-table book.
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Pacific #5 Ex Member	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #2 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 6:34am	Print Post
	Ditto on Dutcher's book, when I got it a few years back, I could not put it down. I have since reread it several times.


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.22Hepburn Oldtimer Offline Posts: 803 Location: Pennsylvania Joined: Feb 18^th, 2008	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #3 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:10am	Print Post
	I went into the Preview and the first gun pictured is a #3 Ballard. I've never seen a #3 with a ring lever like that, I've only ever seen them with "S" levers, curious....


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #4 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:15pm	Print Post
	.22Hepburn wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:10am: I went into the Preview and the first gun pictured is a #3 Ballard. I've never seen a #3 with a ring lever like that, I've only ever seen them with "S" levers, curious.... Another one of these is shown in Dutcher's book--he calls it "scarce, but not rare." I've never seen one except in this photo. Actually rather clunky looking, I think.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16040 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #5 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 3:32pm	Print Post
	.22Hepburn wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:10am: I went into the Preview and the first gun pictured is a #3 Ballard. I've never seen a #3 with a ring lever like that, I've only ever seen them with "S" levers, curious.... The ring lever on a #3 with standard single trigger is pretty unusual. Ring levers were only used on very early JM Marlin marked guns, and seem to disappear around serial #3000 or so. I have a early JM Marlin #3 with heavy barrel and flat top receiver that's around 3100 number. That should have been early enough to have the ring lever, but it's one of the first with S lever. Dutcher shows one #3223 that has a ring lever in his book. I have several other #2 JM Marlins with ring levers, and they seem to be more commonly found, as they made more #2 than #3 in early years.

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broken_arrow Full Member Offline Posts: 202 Location: Lancaster County Joined: Aug 12^th, 2008	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #6 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 3:36pm	Print Post
	.22Hepburn wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:10am: I went into the Preview and the first gun pictured is a #3 Ballard. I've never seen a #3 with a ring lever like that, I've only ever seen them with "S" levers, curious.... SSDAVE recently had one in the sale section... I am anxiously awaiting it's arrival at my humble abode.

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rustyrelx Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 474 Location: Wallace Idaho Joined: Oct 9^th, 2007	Re: Ballards and Borchardts. Reply #7 - Dec 21^st, 2013 at 1:46pm	Print Post
	My favorite interest... I have 2 of Dutchers books, one for reading then the other for when I wear out the first one...Love Borchardts also so I will have to get this... Don


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