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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Stevens 44-1/2 article Mar 12^th, 2014 at 5:43pm	Print Post
	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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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #1 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 5:44pm	Print Post
	2nd page.


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #2 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 5:47pm	Print Post
	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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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #3 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 8:43pm	Print Post
	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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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 9:07pm	Print Post
	Rather hard to read I know--had to severely shrink scan to make it "fit," but can enlarge it somewhat.


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shovel80 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 896 Location: Sonora,CA Joined: Jun 6^th, 2011	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 9:35pm	Print Post
	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

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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 9:41pm	Print Post
	shovel80 wrote on Mar 12^th, 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 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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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #7 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 9:49pm	Print Post
	Printed it but it is pretty small. Could you possible email it to me in larger format?


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #8 - Mar 12^th, 2014 at 11:01pm	Print Post
	slumlord44 wrote on Mar 12^th, 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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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16289 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #9 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 12:26pm	Print Post
	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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John Boy Ex Member	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #10 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:24pm	Print Post
	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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LONG RANGE Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 414 Location: CHERRY VALLEY, CA Joined: Oct 3^rd, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #11 - Mar 22^nd, 2014 at 3:23pm	Print Post
	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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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #12 - Mar 22^nd, 2014 at 4:08pm	Print Post
	LONG RANGE wrote on Mar 22^nd, 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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LONG RANGE Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 414 Location: CHERRY VALLEY, CA Joined: Oct 3^rd, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #13 - Mar 22^nd, 2014 at 4:54pm	Print Post
	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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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #14 - Mar 22^nd, 2014 at 6:17pm	Print Post
	LONG RANGE wrote on Mar 22^nd, 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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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4079 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #15 - Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 1:57am	Print Post
	Would it be worth offering some of my duplicates in the For Sale section?

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LONG RANGE Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 414 Location: CHERRY VALLEY, CA Joined: Oct 3^rd, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #16 - Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 1:37pm	Print Post
	What I found more interesting than the articles in these old magazines were the classified ads. Imagine a new in the box Winchester '92 saddle ring carbine in 44-40 for $25 or a Sedgley Sporter for $71. I know that was a lot of money at that time{I should know, I was there] but remember they were silver dollars and not the monopoly money we have today. Thanks to LBJ.


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #17 - Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 1:51pm	Print Post
	uscra112 wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 1:57am: Would it be worth offering some of my duplicates in the For Sale section? Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained, but I'd keep my expectations low. Personally, I never bought individual issues, only complete years, & even doing it that way took me years to acquire a complete run of the '20s & '30s.


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ron Oldtimer Offline Posts: 576 Location: Augusta Maine Joined: Nov 15^th, 2009	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #18 - Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 6:48pm	Print Post
	Would these articals be avilable through the Archives? ron


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #19 - Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 7:01pm	Print Post
	ron wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 6:48pm: Would these articals be avilable through the Archives? ron Sure, but you have to know what to ask for.


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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2058 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #20 - Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 10:52pm	Print Post
	This is from Frank de Haas;


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Green_Frog Frequent Elocutionist Offline "It ain't easy being green" ASSRA Life #281 Posts: 4066 Location: Lynchburg, VA Joined: Apr 18^th, 2004	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #21 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 7:17pm	Print Post
	My family has the same set, only bound in the AR leatherette binders. I took the ones with the Wagar articles to work and photocopied the whole series as well as another such single shot series by another author. I tried to interest some of my friends at NRA in having one of their reprint booklets made of them, but no dice. I've still got my own home-made reprint book around here somewhere. Froggie


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ron Oldtimer Offline Posts: 576 Location: Augusta Maine Joined: Nov 15^th, 2009	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #22 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 8:13pm	Print Post
	If you ever find your copy of the articals I would like to obtain them from you. I would be willing to cover the cost. ron


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44-1/2 article Reply #23 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 8:36pm	Print Post
	Green_Frog wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 7:17pm: I tried to interest some of my friends at NRA in having one of their reprint booklets made of them, but no dice. Froggie Made same suggestion regarding Rifleman articles of Allyn Tedmon, which are numerous enough to make a slender book. Their response: what, no black rifles? (That's a lie--I got no response at all, needless to say.) I haven't had any "friends" at NRA since I sent my $1000 check for Benefactor membership about 40 yrs ago.


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