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Re: Stevens #5 weight .22 barrels?
Reply #15 - Sep 16th, 2017 at 10:24am
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"I have a Ballard #3 that started life as a .22RF and is marked "Rebored by J Stevens" and ".25RF". "
These re-bores are apparently not uncommon, I have a #3 Ballard with the same markings.
  
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Reply #16 - Sep 16th, 2017 at 11:13am
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Just being curious- If a barrel is 'rebored' by Stevens, just what in the heck was it prior to that? A bb gun?
  
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Re: Stevens #5 weight .22 barrels?
Reply #17 - Sep 16th, 2017 at 11:36am
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rebore from 22RF to 25RF.
Valls is not rebored, as I understand it.
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Reply #18 - Sep 16th, 2017 at 12:43pm
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Ahh! yet again I've missed the distinction between one thing and the other. I just got fixated on the thread's heading and.... well you know the rest. Thanks fer straightening my noggin out, Aaron.
  
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Re: Stevens #5 weight .22 barrels?
Reply #19 - Sep 16th, 2017 at 9:30pm
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I would guess that technically my #3 in .25RF should have been marked "re-rifled by J Stevens Arms Co.", but I think they probably had a rollstamp already, so whether they bored it first, and then rifled it, or just increased the rifling from .22 to .25, it got the same rollstamp.
Any Ballard in .25RF would not be done by Marlin, since the .25 Stevens didn't hit the market until after Ballards ceased production in 1891.
  
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