A lined Rigby barrel, and possibly a Pacific action. Im sure Marlinguy will chime in.

being a 2 line address it's most likely a forged action but one would  have to check it out at the same time you could check the s/n's. I don't think any will match the breech block has no firing pin screw so it's a rim fire breech block. ken

Thanks for all the input.we will see what I have when it arrives, being a Franken gun I didn't pay alot.i wanted a vintage. 22 varmint gun for the field I didn't feel bad about using and adding "character"

rkba2nd

Exactly. a friend of mine in Portland had a collection of varmint rifles built on Hepburn's,Borschts and some other fine single shots built back in the thirties and forties that were just a sin to have done that too but back then nobody cared.

I'm with you marlinguy.thise rifles I mentioned were Joolies.He had some nice stuff.im not sure in Eileen sold any of it off at Cornfoot.

Cbashooter wrote on Jan 6^th, 2021 at 2:48pm:


Most of what Hooley had got stolen by Tom Axtell long before Hooley died. He gave huge numbers of guns to Axtell to sell, and he told me he got paid for the first small group he had Axtell sell. Then he made the mistake of giving Tom a huge amount of his guns, and never saw a cent. Then Axtell disappeared with his money, never to be seen again.
Eileen's collection was as Hooley said, "Better than the stuff I had!"
Eileen's father was Hooley's good friend, and he left everything in the way of fine guns to Eileen. She did eventually sell some of them, but never had any of Hooley's to sell.

A lot of folks new to this game have no idea of the things done to them. During WW2 some one here posted of seeing a Rifle Buttstock sticking out of a Trash barrel as he drove by. So he stopped and asked about it at the House. It had been put out by the family as a Metal donation for the War drive. He asked if he could take it if he supplied equal weight in steel. The Lady said OK but she would not let him take unless he left his identification. He said OK and collected all the stuff in the Barrel and went home and came up with  the weight and returned to show her what he had and she said OK. It was a complete Pope outfit with all the tools. This was posted here I think or maybe on the old Google schuetzen site we had running before Jim Borton and a few of us created what
became the ASSRA Forum. I remember meeting a couple of Gunsmiths who were salvaging M1886 Winchesters in the early 1960s and re barreling them in .33 Winchester and 45-70, They used the old barrels for which you could no longer at that time find ammo for them and used them for re-bar when they cemented their Drive way. So don't be so hard on the old Timers. If not for them there would be a lot fewer of them around. FITZ, OLD TUCK