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Dan, what a great display. I would like to have been there to see it. Thanks to PysDoc for the photos.

Dan:

In your collection do you have a G&H Springfield M1922 converted to .22 Hornet single shot or repeater? I know they did some and I would like to see what one looked like when finished.

Thanks.

Rem

Rem,

I have one that might be done by G&H but it isn't marked and it also isn't in very good condition. It does have the magazine box done like G&H.

Fantastic display Dan! Like the others, I sure wish I could have been there. It sounds like a fun show.

I hope you got a few people interested in our small circle of custom rifle collecting. Displays like this go a long way toward getting folks to realize what they�ve been missing.

Dan:

When you have the time, I'd very much like to see photos of the M1922. I picked one up a couple of years ago, a complete custom job, but with no maker's mark at all. I doubt it's a G&H, but I'd like to see if whomever actually did the work copied the G&H style.

Thanks.

Rem

When they move this show to Sioux Falls-- instead of Souix Falls, I'll think about attending-- RWTF

Thanks- made me think of Hemingway's now long-lost G&H Springfield Sporter- with a detachable scope mount, ref: Silvio Calabi et. al- "Hemingway's Guns pages 76-77: " sn 956 G&H number-- G&H signature single lever mount, 2&1/4 power Zeiss Zielklein scope, and Heiser leather case for the rifle, and a separate one for the scope.

Hemingway, right handed, but plagued with vision problems all his life, mainly in his right eye, soon removed the scope and never used it on his Springfield- in MT. ID. or Africa-- Wonder where all of those items are today-- Reportedly, the rifle was left to second son Patrick following Hemingway's suicide in 1961-- later stolen from Patrick's home in MT in the late 1970's.

Somewhere, someone may have this G&H Sporter-- a mystery indeed. Hemingway used this G&H rifle a great deal, a statement to the faith he had in its stopping power and reliable function-

RWTF,
THAT would be a gun to find and hold on to. I did not realize that gun was lost, nor that it could be identified so accurately. Of all of his rifles, that may have been his favorite, or so I interpreted his writing.

Rem,

I have two 1922M1 rifles that have been converted to .22 Hornet.
John Holliger examined them at the Tulsa gun show and expressed the opinion that they were converted by G & H. There is no marking on the rifles to indicate who did the work but the detail of the modifications make it clear they were done by by same shop. I will try to photograph and email pics to you tomorrow. Please send me a private message with your email addres.

Herschel S. Garner

Herschel:

PM sent.

Rem