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OLD TUCK Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 469 Location: Middleborough MA Joined: Oct 5^th, 2017	Re: 1885 Oct-Round barel Reply #15 - Aug 28^th, 2018 at 11:00pm	Print Post
	You know marlinguy I have often wondered about that. The early Ballard Long Range Ballard's were/are definitely different than the later ones. Clear straight Grain wood and little or no Engraving not like the later one's with High Grade wood and Engraving. And what seemed to me very long Barrels. I had a Mid Range A-1 Ballard and never shot it. The early ones tend to be the rarest as few were made before they started embellishing them. FITZ. OLD TUCK.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 15771 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: 1885 Oct-Round barel Reply #16 - Aug 29^th, 2018 at 12:49pm	Print Post
	Fitz, I also have one of the few Ballard #7 non engraved Long-Range rifles. Mine seems to have pretty nice wood, but as you noticed it isn't as high end as the later A-1 Long-Range rifle's wood. I believe with Marlin taking over Ballard production in 1975 that they were rushing to capitalize on the Creedmoor fever spreading across the US then, so it was faster to get the first #7 guns out without the highly embellished wood and engraving. They quickly dropped the plain #7 Long-Range, they are not often found today. The plain #4 1/2 Mid-Range is just as rare, as Marlin did the same thing with them and replaced them with the engraved A-1 version pretty quickly.

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