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Drove down from NYC went Saturday and Sunday. Big crowd Sat less so Sun. This is a big show, post 1898 handguns are banned and post 1898 rifles are scarce. Vast numbers of American ML rifles, both original and modern craft replicas, some stunners. Winchesters aplenty. Quite a few American SS, two or three Brit SS. Numerous German ML rifles, FLs ranging 2500-5500. Solid examples but nothing really outstanding. Only a few custom moderns. Noted a Bob Owen, Saquoit (don't know how to spell that, if it is correct it is just luck) NY, modified in Germany with claw mount bases and those weird claws that hinge out from the forend, don't know how they were used. Didn't ask price. PA dealer Roger Bain had three fine rifles, a G&H .270 with a shotgun style trigger guard, and a 1922 Springfield Hornet,both 7500. Also a really splendid Hoffman 7x57, Kornbrath engraving on the bottom, carved border checkering, 17500. Very fine rifle, mighty high price. All three new condition. This show is right up there with Las Vegas and Denver and I have been going on and off for at least thirty years. I bought a Bob Snapp baby No. 4 rolling block and a Mauser prewar .22 repeater, both very handsome rifles.

those weird claws that spring out from the fore-end were used to steady a gun while leaning up against a tree.

Mark,

Sounds like you saw this rifle!

Looks like it. Did not have arrowhead, no hinged guard, flat trap grip cap. Scope mount base slotted in receiver had single hole it it, rear base on left side of receiver.

Bob Snapp makes some great rifles....and he is great guy too! If you are coming out to Denver, let us know. We are counting the days here in the shop.

I’m sure it’s the same rifle, is purported to be Kermit Roosevelt's rifle with a somewhat cloudy provenance. Has been for sale for a couple years now.

Is the Mod 4 Remington the one Jim Goergen had? If so, It had a beautiful stock and file cut rib.

Joelblack88, yes it is the same rifle. A cutie and IMO a steal. Forty years ago I sent an octagon No .4 22LR to Parker Hale in UK, they relined it with a target grade liner, cut to 18", made a new fat forend with a rather incongruous schnable,
a scope rib 8" long and it has had a Weaver 330 in Hill rings all that time. Lyman 52A rear, 77 front. Very efficient little rifle but rather clunky looking. This new one is a .22WMR which is not as desirable to me as a 22LR but it is supremely elegant. Slightly spoiled by having scope blocks installed but I can put an old Fecker Small Game scope on them. Michael could write an article for Precision Shooting, call it "Beauty and the Beast, two Remingtons".

Mark, did you buy one of the .22 Mausers with extra holes in the receiver? I didn't realize one was a repeater. I was tempted because of the condition and the reasonable prices. I sold my last high condition 350 Mauser because I thought the buyer's offer was outrageous. Now I would like it back. Bill Murphy

Yes, two extra holes, probably for one of the old stamped Weaver sidemount. Beautiful wood in the stock. For many years have owned a 350 with full panoply of sights, etc., but plain wood. Plan to switch stocks .... There was another 350 with white paint in the barrel markings, also cheap, that I did not pick up to examine.