Scharfe , what about the Rigby barreled No. 9? You got an update for us?

Hopefully its as nice as this No. 8 with Rigby barrel. Supposedly the only one known.

The reason I wanted to know was that in my over 30 years being involved in owning and shooting various brands of single shot rifles I was never that interested in owning one.  In the last year I have bought two and wanted to know if I over paid.  But now I think I am OK.  Thanks  Charlie

UPDATE My #9 is here and the #'s all match. Marlinguy mentioned another found at Tulsa with 2 barrel #'s. Mine has only 1 and it matches. 3/32" tall, action # matches, 1/8" tall. I started a new thread under the collecting category.














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For quite a few years, one of our CBA match shooters, Mike Barrett (some of you might know him) would shoot our matches like old-time Scheutzen shooters did. (Mike passed in Sept. 2021). We don’t do offhand, just off the bench. Mike would use the same cartridge case for every shot, reloading it for each shot. We only have 10-minutes for (5) rounds or 15-minutes for (10) round groups. So Mike was quite busy. 

Mike showed-up at the matches, many times with an old original single shot. He frequently told us that in his experience, the Ballard was the “best” of the old single shots. I just received a new CPA but I just can’t remember if Mike ever used a Steven’s 44 ½ at our matches, I wasn’t paying attention at the time. But I’d bet he did!

Tom

I have always heard that the flats give a pipe wrench a better bite when switching barrels.



Steve  😁