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Stevens 44-1/2 article
Mar 12th, 2014 at 5:43pm
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By J.V.K Wagar in May, 1940 Rifleman.  (One of a half-dozen he wrote that year on all the major SS actions.  None of these have ever been reprinted anywhere. )
  
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Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article
Reply #1 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 5:44pm
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Reply #2 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 5:47pm
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Last page.  (In his next Rifleman article, Wagar added that late production CF actions were built with a firing-pin retractor, due to complaints of breakage.)
  
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Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article
Reply #3 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 8:43pm
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Thanks for sharing. Need to get on my desktop and see how it prints out. I save every bit of written info I can find on Stevens and really appreciate this.
  
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Reply #4 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 9:07pm
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Rather hard to read I know--had to severely shrink scan to make it "fit," but can enlarge it somewhat.
  
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Reply #5 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 9:35pm
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On your comp. keyboard....if you hold down "Ctrl" and at the same time hit the "+"....YOu can enlarge anything on your screen. the"-" will bring it back down..

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Reply #6 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 9:41pm
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shovel80 wrote on Mar 12th, 2014 at 9:35pm:
On your comp. keyboard....if you hold down "Ctrl" and at the same time hit the "+"....YOu can enlarge anything on your screen. the"-" will bring it back down..

Terry Smiley


Thanks--one of a million "computer things" I don't know.

When enlarged this way, however, the letters start to blur, while the original "large" scan was crystal clear.
  
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Reply #7 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 9:49pm
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Printed it but it is pretty small. Could you possible email it to me in larger format?
  
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Reply #8 - Mar 12th, 2014 at 11:01pm
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slumlord44 wrote on Mar 12th, 2014 at 9:49pm:
Printed it but it is pretty small. Could you possible email it to me in larger format?


Will do.
  
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Reply #9 - Mar 16th, 2014 at 12:26pm
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Not enough good info on Stevens rifles, so it's always nice to see articles like this that I've missed before!
  

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Reply #10 - Mar 16th, 2014 at 8:24pm
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Want to save the 3 page 'jpg' image article?
Put cursor on the image > right click > Copy image ... Open up your word document program: make margins narrow.  Then put cursor at top of page > right click mouse > paste
Then continue for all the pages ... then save word doc to your computer
  
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Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article
Reply #11 - Mar 22nd, 2014 at 3:23pm
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In 1993 I was given two sets of the American Rifleman starting in 1927 up to the current issue. The only year I kept was 1940. It was in a hard binder and in very good condition. The articles on single shot rifles were interesting but not as thorough as those written today. By 1940 there really wasn't much interest in the older guns. By then most shooters, like now wanted the latest and the fastest. I did like the article on the Sharps Big Fifty by Elmer Keith.
  
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Reply #12 - Mar 22nd, 2014 at 4:08pm
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LONG RANGE wrote on Mar 22nd, 2014 at 3:23pm:
In 1993 I was given two sets of the American Rifleman starting in 1927 up to the current issue. The only year I kept was 1940.


Well, you know where your own interests lie; 1940 at least contains most of Wagar's SS pieces.  Best years of the Rifleman were mid '20s through early '40s.  I paid hundreds for mine. 
  
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Reply #13 - Mar 22nd, 2014 at 4:54pm
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I took one set of The Rifleman to the big gun show in Pomona, Ca. and there was no interest in them. I did see a young man looking through Rifleman magazines another seller had stacked under his table. I told him of the magazines I had and I was able to sell one set to him for  $100. I gave the other set away except for the 1940 issue.
  
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Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article
Reply #14 - Mar 22nd, 2014 at 6:17pm
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LONG RANGE wrote on Mar 22nd, 2014 at 4:54pm:
I took one set of The Rifleman to the big gun show in Pomona, Ca. and there was no interest in them. I did see a young man looking through Rifleman magazines another seller had stacked under his table. I told him of the magazines I had and I was able to sell one set to him for  $100. I gave the other set away except for the 1940 issue. 


Worse possible place for selling them, or any other vintage mags--a case of pearls before swine.  FAR better venue would have been (I hate to say it!)...ebay.
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