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Brittany Man:

That Model 725 in .280 your wife uses is a fairly uncommon rifle. My recollection is that Remington only manufactured about 4000 in that chambering, a fairly small number for a factory production gun. I own one which I use as a deer rifle.

The Model 725 might have been the nicest finished Remington production rifle they ever made. The checkering quality and fit and finish on mine are light years ahead of any Model 700 I've ever seen.

FWIW (not much, I know).

Rem

Recoil Rob's picture reminds me of the time, many years ago, I saw that rifle at a show and got visions of bargain hunting a great G&H off brand rifle. Boy, was I surprised. Maybe I should have just written the check. Does Recoil Rob own that gun today?

The P17 Enfields can make a pretty attractive rifle (with the sight ears milled off and shaped correctly). I've had a few.

The only Remington Model 30 that sticks in my mind is a carbine owned by an old gentleman I knew when I was a kid. He was the retired "segundo" (foreman) of a local cattle ranch and had at one time been the foreman of the Jack London ranch in Glen Ellen, CA. His was a well-worn .25 Remington, I think a 30R? I don't know what happened to it when he passed away.

His main "working gun" was a Steven Model 15 .22 single shot which he used to loan me when I was trespassing on the ranch he lived on (in a snug converted line shack), as long as I only shot ground squirrels and jack rabbits. (It had the usual "half-hour trigger"....a true friend of ground squirrels).

P.O. Ackley made many custom rifles on Enfield actions, but they were "Ackley grade" and pretty rough compared to Neidner's work. Interesting arms, though.

Neat threads!

That was a gun Mike Schwandt of Schwandt Classic Arms had some years back. It had fantastic Kornbrath engraving and, if I remember correctly, an exact date (as if it was given as a gift or presentation) on the floorplate. I think it was Christmas 1934 or 1935. It was a beautiful gun! I�m not sure who bought it.

Only in my dreams...I thought I got those pics from Hallowell's website some years back.

Mike had the gun at a Connecticut show years ago. I wish I had bought it. Hollowell may have had a gun like this or this gun, but Schwandt had it when I saw it.

Was that the Greenwich Show? I saw it there too, I defer to your memory.

Eight Bore is correct, Recoil Rob, both about it being Mike Schwandt who had it and it being on his site. The pics you posted are from Schwandt�s site, too. I recognize the background. I don�t think Morris ever had that gun. It�s also the gun I was trying to describe. It has fantastic Kornbrath engraving!

Bullwinkle seems a bit too happy...