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Capt Crossman's Bob Owen. (Did he own more than one?) Owen sent Crossman a 1903 that he had made for a gent back East and Crossman wrote an article about it in the April, 1927 Field & Stream magazine. "Concerning A Deluxe Rifle" Sometime later he had Owen make him a 1903 sporter. http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum/the-...tion-rifle.aspx
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Danl. Fraser Mauser .318. Subject of my latest column in Sports Afield about the owner hunting the rifle in NZ.  
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Capt Crossman's Bob Owen. (Did he own more than one?) Owen sent Crossman a 1903 that he had made for a gent back East and Crossman wrote an article about it in the April, 1927 Field & Stream magazine. "Concerning A Deluxe Rifle" Sometime later he had Owen make him a 1903 sporter. http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum/the-...tion-rifle.aspx That'll do nicely. Thanks for the link, Michael! Glad to see you back.
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The so called Crossman rifle at NRA they say it has initials "ECC" are inlaid in gold on the receiver ring. I don't see that and the rifle has a VL&D number.
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I noticed that Michael - the ECC, I mean. I toured that museum last fall and there were several things that made me scratch my head...
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Time for more research, grab them books and go to work ;-).
When I was a lot younger I had a opportunity to go through the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum - Oklahoma City. Downstairs they had a gunsmith shop and out front they had a half-dozen Sharps rifles, everyone was wrongly marked. What I had to say fell on death (deaf) ears.
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What I had to say fell on death ears. Freudian slip?
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I did some checking and the rifle at the NRA Museum is Crossman's. It is pictured many times in one of his books. I still don't see the gold "ECC".
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Another clue to the my pick.
They only made what would be called "Best" guns using Italian Walnut and 100% Kornbrath engraved.
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Michael, that sounds like Hoffman to me.
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