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Yes Joe, it is another high wall (Read 1468 times)

gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 923 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Yes Joe, it is another high wall Reply #45 - Jul 11^th, 2025 at 11:06am	Print Post
	A different perspective: obviously the rifle isn't as it left the factory and as such has lost much "historical" appeal (not to detract from its overall "grand-ness", because it is a grand piece). To that end, why not d/t the barrel for scope blocks? In the end who's to say that the holes wouldn't have been executed "back in the day"? If the rifle already had scope block holes would it have mattered either way in the eyes of anyone who wanted it?


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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 3147 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Yes Joe, it is another high wall Reply #46 - Jul 11^th, 2025 at 11:18am	Print Post
	That would always be an option. With the prong buttplate it would probably not be my go to bench gun though.

	ASSRA # 11318 I haven’t lost all my marbles yet but there is definitely a hole in the bag somewhere.
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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2141 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Yes Joe, it is another high wall Reply #47 - yesterday at 7:17pm	Print Post
	Aye Jack, Good shooting by the way, I wish I could have joined you folks in Spokane. It's very VERY difficult to find an original Winchester, one that hasn't been modified, although it's not impossible. I can remember that after Winchester stopped selling their single shots, there were lots of parts on hand and particularly a bunch of thick-side hiwall actions. I don't think I have any rifle that's not a GMO.
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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 3147 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Yes Joe, it is another high wall Reply #48 - yesterday at 7:35pm	Print Post
	Of my 19 Winchester high and low walls, my 32-20 low wall is the closest to being original with just the addition of scope blocks. At the Post Falls show the first rifle I looked at was claimed by the seller to be all original. It must have been very rare version then with its Bishop buttstock and rubber butt pad. He wanted $2K for it. Mine is not really all original as the barrel and lower tang were sold to someone very early on and added to the receiver as far as we can tell. Still the barrel looks to have been made prior to 1909 based on its marks.

	ASSRA # 11318 I haven’t lost all my marbles yet but there is definitely a hole in the bag somewhere.
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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 923 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Yes Joe, it is another high wall Reply #49 - yesterday at 9:40pm	Print Post
	bpjack wrote yesterday at 7:35pm: Of my 19 Winchester high and low walls, my 32-20 low wall is the closest to being original with just the addition of scope blocks. At the Post Falls show the first rifle I looked at was claimed by the seller to be all original. It must have been very rare version then with its Bishop buttstock and rubber butt pad. He wanted $2K for it. Mine is not really all original as the barrel and lower tang were sold to someone very early on and added to the receiver as far as we can tell. Still the barrel looks to have been made prior to 1909 based on its marks. Ah, man. Jack you blew it on that Bishop stocked HW. That was a Pope gun, made when he was still a Bishop before getting promoted to Cardinal and thence the Papacy. Fact.


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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 3147 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Yes Joe, it is another high wall Reply #50 - yesterday at 10:50pm	Print Post
	I should have recognized the Catholic Church marks on the barrel. Dang.

	ASSRA # 11318 I haven’t lost all my marbles yet but there is definitely a hole in the bag somewhere.
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