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Timetripper Full Member Offline Posts: 124 Location: Carlisle Joined: Mar 4^th, 2013	Found a Ballard at the flea market... Aug 19^th, 2022 at 12:58pm	Print Post
	... or part of one. It was in a box with a bunch of shotgun receivers. I bought it simply because the price was low enough to make it an affordable paper weight. Plus I will probably never find another. Serial number appears to be 1809 or thereabouts. There are no other visible markings. Seems to be a solid action with no cracks or deep pitting. It was at the same stall where I bought the 1896 Remington roller barreled receiver posted elsewhere. Just thought I'd put her up here for some background input. John


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art_ruggiero Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1157 Location: CT Joined: Dec 14^th, 2008	Re: Found a Ballard at the flea market... Reply #1 - Aug 19^th, 2022 at 5:47pm	Print Post
	don't the ballards use a thru bolt to mount the stock? art


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ssdave Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1939 Location: Eastern Oregon Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: Found a Ballard at the flea market... Reply #2 - Aug 19^th, 2022 at 6:03pm	Print Post
	art_ruggiero wrote on Aug 19^th, 2022 at 5:47pm: don't the ballards use a thru bolt to mount the stock? art It's a pre-marlin, they were different.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16802 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Found a Ballard at the flea market... Reply #3 - Aug 20^th, 2022 at 12:28am	Print Post
	Ball & Williams, R Ball, and Dwight Chapin Ballards all used tangs like this receiver. Merrimack and Brown used the through bolt like Marlin. Dwight Chapin had mostly round top receivers, while the others had mostly octagon top receivers. Finding parts for any pre-Marlin Ballard is nearly impossible, so they really are paper weights with missing parts.

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RBKenn Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 290 Location: fallon Joined: Apr 8^th, 2011	Re: Found a Ballard at the flea market... Reply #4 - Aug 21^st, 2022 at 6:11pm	Print Post
	Definitely keep going back. Good stuff.


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