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Oldbee Full Member Offline Posts: 106 Location: Foot Hills of the Adirondacks Joined: Sep 26^th, 2021	Old video, Very nice rifle. Mar 27^th, 2025 at 8:23am	Print Post
	Video with only 80 views? (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16732 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #1 - Mar 27^th, 2025 at 10:43am	Print Post
	Oldbee wrote on Mar 27^th, 2025 at 8:23am: Video with only 80 views? (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) Had to chuckle just because that's my Pope Ballard set, and me telling my friend Ron about it at our annual long range shoot. Going to miss those shoots as we had our last one last October after the property owner died.

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Oldbee Full Member Offline Posts: 106 Location: Foot Hills of the Adirondacks Joined: Sep 26^th, 2021	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #2 - Mar 27^th, 2025 at 2:08pm	Print Post
	I thought it might be someone from ASSRA. I should have known it was you with all the other Ballards that accompanied it! Is it a one of a kind? Ed

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16732 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #3 - Mar 27^th, 2025 at 8:09pm	Print Post
	Oldbee wrote on Mar 27^th, 2025 at 2:08pm: I thought it might be someone from ASSRA. I should have known it was you with all the other Ballards that accompanied it! Is it a one of a kind? Ed Any Pope Ballard with Pope's patented takedown system will be extremely rare! I've only seen one other, and it was a single barrel. As far as I know mine is the only multi barrel Pope takedown system rifle.

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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3067 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #4 - Mar 27^th, 2025 at 10:38pm	Print Post
	The 80 was likes. Currently 3700 views

	ASSRA # 11318 I haven’t lost all my marbles yet but there is definitely a hole in the bag somewhere.
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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16732 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #5 - Mar 28^th, 2025 at 11:26am	Print Post
	My friend Mo does all the Sagebrush Longshots videos that he and our friend made together. Mo also filmed all the shoots we had at The Happenz each year. I'm glad he did them as it at least allows us to look back on all the fun we had for many years!

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Andover Arms Junior Member Offline Posts: 60 Joined: Dec 24^th, 2017	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #6 - Mar 29^th, 2025 at 10:04am	Print Post
	I believe this is the rifle mentioned in Greatbatch Pope book (Volume 1 page 200) mentioned as Hartford # 202? Since its marlinguys rifle he would know best. Ironically the Ed Buesseler mentioned in the book is the great uncle of LMB on this forum. I'm sure he (and many of us) would love to know more about the history of the rifle. Regards, Chris.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16732 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Old video, Very nice rifle. Reply #7 - Mar 29^th, 2025 at 11:55am	Print Post
	Yes, it is that same rifle, and I've done a lot of research on the rifle and the original owner LG Pridy of Denver, and his time on the Denver Rifle Club as a shooter. I probably have a file an inch thick concerning Priday. LG Pridy was a barber in Denver, and shot on the Denver team when they set the new world record for a team for the year 1919 of 9956 points out of a possible perfect 10,000. Pridy was consistently the top shooter on the team almost every month that year. LG Pridy died of consumption just before WWII, likely contracted through close contact with customers in his barber shop.

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