Recent content by Tombstone Gabby

dfariswheel: Took the rifle up to the local Shooting Gallery this morning - two chaps who are "into" collecting had a look. Seems it is a '97. Condition: one gave it 60%, one 50%. Three year old Blue Book says upwards of $850. I get to clean it up some for the gun show this weekend. It...

dfariswheel: Photos as promised at www.picasaweb.google.com/gandcmcdonald/ Any suggestions as to value much appreciated.

Ouch. The two ID's are on the rifle - 39A on the barrel, '97 on the upper tang. It's been 30 years since I worked in a machine shop, so my fingernail is somewhat out of practice: 'steps' between the two parts of the take-down (either side and on the bottom of the receiver) seem to range...

I see a crying need for at least one 1873 Colt Model P (or replica), aka SAA or Peacemaker. In this town anything less than a .45LC is frowned upon. This town? Hint: today's, and yesterday's, and tomorrow's date, is October 26, 1881. The wife and I spent too long in California. Since...

Thank you for the reply..... Thanks, from both of us, dfariswheel. Read your reply on Saturday morning and passed it along verbally to the owner that morning in town. He took it well, his wife's jaw dropped! I'll save this page and print it out for him this morning. As of Saturday, no...

Not sure just what we have here..... G’day folks, I didn’t realize that there were so many variations over the years for the Marlin 39A. A friend brought over his rifle for me to look up a current value. I couldn’t identify the exact model and year from the book. Seeing potential values...