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In a recent thread, the Marshall Field gun shop in Chicago was mentioned. It sounds like it was a very interesting place. Apparently it was remembered by many because a Chicago businessman J. Bruce Allen loaned two mounted Kodiak bears to be used as exhibits. I googled "J. Allen Bruce" and found his G&H sporter which is well worth a look. G&H 1903 really nice early oneHowever, I found also some photos on ebay of his hunting exhibitions Mystery rifle pictureIf you look at the third picture of a man holding a rifle with a bear skin in the background, you will see he is holding an interesting rifle. I don't recognize it and hope someone can identify it.
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Wow! Fred, you found a really interesting rabbit hole. That 03 is really nice. The carving on the grip looks familiar somehow.
The second rifle is a mystery to me and the bear is stunning! As are the rest of the photos. A great post.
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My best guess is a sporter model of the Steyr-Kropatschek.
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Could it be one of those repeating rifles with a second shotgun barrel below?
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My best guess is a sporter model of the Steyr-Kropatschek. I can't help but wonder if what looks like a magazine tube sticking out of the forend, is instead a gas tube for a self-loading rifle. There were a lot of weird ones coming out of Germany and Austria at that time.
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Enough Gewher’71 and 71/84 surplus rifles were exported to North America for CIL to load the 11mm Mauser commercially.
My guess would be a sporterised one if those.
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I am trying to make this into a Remington Keene, but I don't think that that works, even allowing for the resolution of my cellphone. The RK would have been a good grizzly rifle, however. 11 rounds of .45-70 would get it done.
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scroll to the bottom german hunting gunsThat might be Frederick Hollender in the photo, unless he sold the rifle
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scroll to the bottom german hunting gunsThat might be Frederick Hollender in the photo, unless he sold the rifle Wow, that is so impressive, how did you find that?
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