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Congrats to both of you, great rifle to have created, and to own!
(Do keep an eye open for one with a half octagon…)
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Congrats to both of you, great rifle to have created, and to own!
(Do keep an eye open for one with a half octagon…) What! No pictures???? I don't ever remember seeing a Krag with a half octagon barrel and I would have noticed. I'm also looking for a half octagon sporter so if you see this one let me know. 
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Let me know FIRST!!!  Is that the one with British roots, Michael??
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Let me know FIRST!!! Is that the one with British roots, Michael?? Yes, made by Gibbs.
MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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I've looked through all my photos, the gun was built before I was doing much photography. I don't have anything but a memory, and it was unchecked with metalwork in the white when it left my hands. I do remember wanting it back.
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Let me know FIRST!!! Is that the one with British roots, Michael?? Yes, made by Gibbs. Michael, do you have a photo of the Kurz that was sold with it?
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MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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Oh, Lord! Lord, Lord, Lord!
Daddy needs his heart pills!!!
(Gotten waaay off topic. Apologies to the OP….and let me know when you tire of the Krag!)
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Aaargh!! Love that short fore end and wood figure.
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It's complicated.....I first saw the cased 1903 with the cased Mauser beside it at Vegas. They were both priced out of comfort zone. I worked with the dealer and the owner at the time and only three years later I was able to buy the pictured cased Gibbs 1903.
The Mauser was nice but twice the price of the 1903 which I wanted a lot worse than the Mauser.
After tracking down the family of the original owner who had a lot of rifles made by Gibbs I acquired a couple of photo albums and correspondence of his.
Turns out he was friends with both Crossman and Whelen, there are a half-hundred Whelen letters. The two photo albums are full of pictures of custom sporters sent by both Crossman and Whelen. The half-Oct 1903 is one of the rifles pictured, whereabouts unknown.
Like the Niedner photo albums, these albums have given me a lot of things to look for.
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