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Re: Under barrel hanger on Stevens 56
Reply #15 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 3:59pm
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Dixie Gun Works also carries the Winchester sling hooks, and cheaper than anyone else.
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Reply #16 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 6:38pm
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BP wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 3:42pm:

Redsetter,
Assuming you went with Buckingham to the shows in Huston at Astro Hall?


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Re: Under barrel hanger on Stevens 56
Reply #17 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 6:59pm
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marlinguy wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 3:59pm:
Dixie Gun Works also carries the Winchester sling hooks, and cheaper than anyone else.
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These are crude looking compared to the ones Buck used to sell--they'd fall out of the eyelets, unless the open end of the hook can be bent back to leave a gap of no more than about 1/8".  The kits he sold also included an eyelet on a wood screw and another for attaching to the brl. by dovetailing or soldering.  I installed them on 4 or 5 of the SSs I used to hunt with, and liked them as well as QD swivels.

Don't know who was actually making them--I think Cape Outfitters also sold them.
  
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Reply #18 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 7:27pm
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Cape Outfitters is now Jeff's Outfitters.  Under the old name it was the original importers of the dreaded mini-Fraser finished rifles and kits.  Can't say anything about the quality of their current products.

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Re: Under barrel hanger on Stevens 56
Reply #19 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 9:24pm
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Jeff's Outfitters has shown them out of stock for a very long time!
  

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Reply #20 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 9:27pm
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Redsetter wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 6:59pm:



These are crude looking compared to the ones Buck used to sell--they'd fall out of the eyelets, unless the open end of the hook can be bent back to leave a gap of no more than about 1/8". 



If a guy can't bend those little hooks slightly closed, he probably ought to sell all his tools.
  

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Reply #21 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 10:00pm
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marlinguy wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 9:27pm:


If a guy can't bend those little hooks slightly closed, he probably ought to sell all his tools.


True, but why should he have to at $40 a pop?   
  
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Re: Under barrel hanger on Stevens 56
Reply #22 - Dec 16th, 2016 at 10:03pm
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Bill Lawrence wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 7:27pm:
Cape Outfitters is now Jeff's Outfitters.  Under the old name it was the original importers of the dreaded mini-Fraser finished rifles and kits.
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Also several well-made repro sights--their Stevens graduated tang sight was just about perfect, except for the pivot screw.
  
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Re: Under barrel hanger on Stevens 56
Reply #23 - Dec 17th, 2016 at 10:44am
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Redsetter wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 10:00pm:
marlinguy wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 9:27pm:


If a guy can't bend those little hooks slightly closed, he probably ought to sell all his tools.


True, but why should he have to at $40 a pop?  


Because not all sling eyes are the same. And $40 a pair is half or less than what anyone else charges. Takes all of maybe 30 seconds to do both of them. Try and make them for less.
  

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