[acro2eaa]

Ran into a fellow the other day interesting in selling an old Spencer. Looked at it, I'm not an expert. SN was 1313. He had never fired it, didn't know anything about it. Bought it in France of all places, at a pawn shop he said after WWII. Just to hang on the wall.

Appeared to be maybe a rifle cut down to carbine. Doesn't have a saddle ring bar, just a saddle ring on a small loop on the left side of receiver. Action was very smooth, Bore looked OK, no significant wear other than a rifle that had been around a 100 plus years.

He isn't in a hurry to get rid of it, but would let it go. I'm doing a little research to see if it's something I could plink with alongside my old Blackpowder Winchester and Sharps. I'm going to take it to my local gunsmith to check it out, but he doesn't know much about old guns.

Anybody have any information on that range of SN Spencer's.

Thanks

[Jim Watson]

I am not a Spencer expert but will warn that all original Spencers are rimfires and no ammunition available. There ARE centerfire conversion breechblocks available and ammunition can be bought or loaded. But you will pay a lot for such plinking.

[barman]

It's not surprising to find spencers in France. more than 30 000 of them were bought by the French government in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war. They were surplus from the US Civil war, so they have known 2 major conflicts.

Here are French soldiers armed with them:

http://www.military-photos.com/FT2S.jpg

http://www.military-photos.com/FT2S1.jpg