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Whip_McCord Participating Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Jun 11^th, 2024	Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Nov 18^th, 2024 at 9:41am	Print Post
	I have a question about the beautiful Ballard on page 16 in the new journal. In the pic below, what is the “lever” that the blue line is pointing to? I have not seen something like this and was curious. Thanks.
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Green_Frog Frequent Elocutionist Offline "It ain't easy being green" ASSRA Life #281 Posts: 4067 Location: Lynchburg, VA Joined: Apr 18^th, 2004	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #1 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 9:53am	Print Post
	Just a wild guess, but maybe a rest for the shooter’s trigger finger so you only touch the set trigger when ready for it to go bang(?) Froggie


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Whip_McCord Participating Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Jun 11^th, 2024	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #2 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 10:04am	Print Post
	Green_Frog wrote on Nov 18^th, 2024 at 9:53am: Just a wild guess, but maybe a rest for the shooter’s trigger finger so you only touch the set trigger when ready for it to go bang(?) Froggie Seems logical. Thanks.

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16295 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #3 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 1:52pm	Print Post
	The lever is a Ballard #6 Ball and Spur lever, but as Froggie said the little ring is a finger rest so you don't touch the trigger until you're ready to fire.

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Whip_McCord Participating Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Jun 11^th, 2024	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #4 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 3:14pm	Print Post
	marlinguy wrote on Nov 18^th, 2024 at 1:52pm: The lever is a Ballard #6 Ball and Spur lever, but as Froggie said the little ring is a finger rest so you don't touch the trigger until you're ready to fire. I put lever in quotes because I was not sure what to call it. Was this common or a special order item? I have not seen pics of this before. Makes sense, though, since some of these triggers are very light. I used to be a member of ASSRA back in the 90s, but none of my shooting buddies were into this stuff at the time, so I lost interest. I went to a Schuetzen match once at Beeson range and a shooter there let me try his German Schuetzen rifle. It had a 1/2 ounce trigger pull once the trigger was set. It was then I understood a pic I saw in the journal a few years before. It was a Pope Ballard with a cork on the trigger with a needle thru it. At the time, I did not understand. When I shot the rifle, it hit me. The trigger is so light that the needle is there so you could feel the trigger better. Pretty wild. Thanks for the info.
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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16295 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #5 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 4:31pm	Print Post
	Those would all be aftermarket made by custom gunsmiths, or owners. No factory sold or offered a finger rest, and not a lot of shooters used them. I think they're neat, but wouldn't drill my receivers on an old single shot to add one.

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scharfe Oldtimer Offline A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow. Posts: 542 Location: ny / pa line Joined: Dec 18^th, 2006	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #6 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 6:54pm	Print Post
	Singer used to have an extended spur on His levers that accomplished the same thing.


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scharfe Oldtimer Offline A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow. Posts: 542 Location: ny / pa line Joined: Dec 18^th, 2006	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #7 - Nov 18^th, 2024 at 7:14pm	Print Post
	Didn't one of C.W. Rowland's Ballards have one of them on it ?


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Joe Do... Oldtimer ASSRA Board Member ASSRA Journal Editor Offline Posts: 594 Location: 'burbs of Chicago Joined: May 19^th, 2012	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #8 - Nov 19^th, 2024 at 6:48am	Print Post
	That is C.W. Rowland's Ballard in the first post by Whip_McCord.


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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2059 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Nov/Dec Journal - Page 16 Reply #9 - Nov 19^th, 2024 at 12:35pm	Print Post
	Ray Day's auction of C. W. Rowland's rifles and impedimenta, featuring the Rowland Pope.


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