1207P seems to be the last barrel he actually worked on himself. In later letters he stated if while at Stevens and he worked on the barrel the Pope barrel number would have a  P  after it.
29aholic, Looks like the rifle has had different scopes and bases on it thus the screw holes and I would guess different stocks at one time.

In the late 50s and 60s there was a tradition of repurposing barrels from Pope Schoyen Zischang ect. that had been removed from their actions. As horrible as this sounds today many Schuetzen guns were repurposed as varminters. Gunsmiths would remove a Pope or other gunsmiths barrel fit a savage or other .22 barrel and chamber it for .22 Mercant Blue Streak or other fashionable varmint caliber. Barrels sat in gun shops old barrel pile until somebody who knew what it was bought it for a dollar or two found another action and built themselves a “Pope”. As bad as this sounds today many were removed and scraped, I have even heard a story of a Pope rifle being rescued from a WWII scrap drive.

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waterman wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 10:48am:


I didn't know that. How would you be able to tell? I assume it was a Winder merely because it is drilled for the receiver sights and it was made within two year of them 1885 being discontinued.

Winder low walls are flared front & rear like the high walls. Thick side low walls is a misnomer, they're actually narrower than the Winder L/W.        ...MIKE...