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Hepburn Creedmoor
Feb 8th, 2016 at 9:06pm
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The fellow that did the case-color on my 38-50 Hepburn in my other Hepburn thread just purchased this original Creedmoor rifle in 44/100. Am going to do my new 38-50 barrel in the same profile as his, which 34 1/2" in length (will go with 32"). What a beautiful rifle. Will post additional pic's when I get a chance.
  

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Re: Hepburn Creedmoor
Reply #1 - Feb 8th, 2016 at 9:16pm
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Very nice....eye candy
  
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Reply #2 - Feb 8th, 2016 at 9:25pm
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nice gun,i have 2 one is serial #6,the only full octogan barreled and one that is near new.i will be at the souix falls show this weekend if anyone is coming i will have them there.very rare guns maybe only 30 made.
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Re: Hepburn Creedmoor
Reply #3 - Feb 8th, 2016 at 10:07pm
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That's a beauty! Love the Croeedmoor Hepburns!
  

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Reply #4 - Feb 9th, 2016 at 3:17pm
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Tony, I wish I could be at the gun show to see your Hepburns, I'm sure they're beauties.

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Reply #5 - Feb 10th, 2016 at 9:51am
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ssrifles wrote on Feb 8th, 2016 at 9:25pm:
nice gun,i have 2 one is serial #6,the only full octogan barreled and one that is near new.i will be at the souix falls show this weekend if anyone is coming i will have them there.very rare guns maybe only 30 made.
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Tony - can you post a couple of pic's of each of your rifles for us to salivate over.

The owner of the Hepburn Creedmoor I posted above will be competing with his, just like in days of yore. He has several original rifles (not like my Hepburn rifles, which are all "rescue" rifles from when they were varmintized 50-60yr ago) that he competes with an has won any number of matches with them. He will be shooting them like they were shot when new, with BP PP loads.

  

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Reply #6 - Feb 19th, 2016 at 7:36am
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This rifle has an original, from the factory gain-twist barrel. From the best that the owner can determine at the moment it starts at 25" and ends at 16" with 5-lands & grooves and measures 0.447" x 0.453". Remington was certainly on top of all the latest tweaks of the day.
  

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Reply #7 - Feb 26th, 2016 at 9:01pm
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Shot the rifle today. Very pleasant, which was a revelation to me. As Tom said, paper-patched 530gr bullet with 100gr of 1F was a real pussy cat compared to a similar grease-groove load. After Tom dialed it in on pigs (300m) I pulled my first shot badly with the requisite 3#+ Creedmoor trigger. On my 2nd shot I drilled the pig pretty much dead center. Tom only shoots original rifles and has a few dozen. Lovely rifle. He also has a Creedmoor Roller.
  

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Reply #8 - Mar 11th, 2016 at 9:33am
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That wood is just exquisite!
  

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