What do I have??
Rifle with tapered brown patina barrell(not blued), has H.M.POPE stamped half way on top of barrell bore measures .305 at muzzel end, do not know the chamber size,(gun out at the moment having a chamber casting) looks like maybe a 7MM or 30-06. Right side of action stamped with three crowns with the letters R and what looks like the letters M or W under each separate crown (the M or W letters have all the beginnings or ends of the letters connected)like it could be an M or W on top of one another. Left lide of barrell has serial # 5820 and what looks like a letter C (with the bottom of the C trailing off) 20 is stamped on the end of bolt at safety end, side of bolt at lug end and on side of action beneath a left side attached Lyman sight holder that's hinged and also acts as a bolt release when pulled on one end. The safety is on the right side of bolt, lever type that is used by pulling toward shooter for safe and pushed forward for fire. A lion or a knight with a crown on head holding a sword or large knife on left side of action. Lots of engraving on floorplate trigger guard and tang. Initials DLP,or LDP,or PDL on trigger guard depending on how you lead it the letter D is predominant. Jaeger stamped on side of trigger. Action has a military type slot to feed stripper clips into the magazine. In front of action where barrell is attached is what apperar to have been a shield with scrolling around it, but the shield has been gone ofer by the engraver with a peening type engrave. It also has besidel the Lyman left side peep sight as Griffin and Howe scope side mount also on the left side with a old Weaver 3x9 CLASSIC scope. Also the bolt has about a 3/8" hole bored in the bollom of it. It's a beautiful gun with custom stock, steel engraved capped schnabel, the end of the barrell has a blade type military sight with a brass ?? pointer bead facing the shooter. The action and barrell also has been drilled in eight separate places to accept different scope bases. Please help me out on this one.
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I will try to post an image but I just aquired a rifle I know nothing about, It is marked US Property on the top of the reciever and S No4 Mk1 on the side and nothing else but a serial number. Any ideas?
It has a full stock and a tapered magazine, If you e-mail me I can send pictures, Thanks! Marc0 -
Can you post some pictures of the rifle and action?
This is way over my head, but it this is a gun with an original Harry Pope barrel, it has some value.
If it is a Pope, it won't be in 7mm or .30-06 though. More likely something like .32-20 or .32-40.0 -
Xracer the gun is at the gunsmith getting a chamber cast made. Won't have it back until Monday. Did some more research on it and it looks to me like it's a mauser action with the bolt customized with the Winchester two stage safety on it. It is indeed a H.M. Pope barrell because when I took the stock off to find more markings, it was stamped Mfg by H.M.Pope with the date (forgot to write the date down), and other stampings. I would like to know what gunmaker built it. Jaeger is on the trigger only. Paul Jaeger was a well known gunmaker from Jenkinstown Pa. He's passed as well as Pope. The initials on the trigger guard are interesting DLP. Any help you can get me is appreciated. The seller wants $800 for it because she had it appraised 5 years ago for that price and the appraiser put the $8oo tag on it with unknown maker. Oh well!! 0 -
OK.....so I guess this is one of his later barrels so it could be a 7 or .30-06.
Most of his earlier stuff was made on single-shot Ballard or Rolling Block actions.0
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