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My 2 new Ballards
Sep 10th, 2026 at 11:39am
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Top is a Paul R. Dodge 22lr. It's on a forged pg action. 
Bottom Griffin & Howe 25 wcf. It's also on a forged pg action. TLC is in progress on it.
  
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Reply #1 - Sep 10th, 2026 at 12:23pm
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The second one does need a little help...



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Reply #2 - Sep 10th, 2026 at 1:15pm
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jhm wrote on Sep 10th, 2026 at 12:23pm:
The second one does need a little help...



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I would suggest that it also offers the most promise.

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Reply #3 - Sep 10th, 2026 at 4:49pm
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Me gusta both of them....#2 seems to have a Winder forend.
  
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Re: My 2 new Ballards
Reply #4 - Sep 11th, 2026 at 8:38am
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I like the second one best. It reminds me of the movie, Planet Of The Apes. I can see a monkey on a horse shooting at Charlton Heston with it.
Neat caliber 25-20 Winchester.
  
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Re: My 2 new Ballards
Reply #5 - Sep 11th, 2026 at 9:32am
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Paul R. Dodge was the secretary and treasurer of the Yreka Gun Club in the mid- 1920s.

He also had a hardware / sporting goods store.
  
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Reply #6 - Sep 11th, 2026 at 12:12pm
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Schutzenbob wrote on Sep 10th, 2026 at 4:49pm:
Me gusta both of them....#2 seems to have a Winder forend.


If that isn’t a Winder forend, it sure was heavily influenced by one!

Maybe Colonel Winder was the milkman for Griffin & Howe?
  
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Reply #7 - Sep 11th, 2026 at 5:29pm
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A mannlicher Ballard, I like it. Smiley
  
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Re: My 2 new Ballards
Reply #8 - Sep 11th, 2026 at 6:38pm
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Work started. Block halves match but not action.
Vernier sight going on my Union Hill #9 numbers match on it even the unengraved Rigby barrel.
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