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#570400 04/24/20 12:28 AM
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About two weeks ago, a Deluxe Sedgley appeared on gunbroker with an attractive buy-it-now price. It didn't last long and I am happy that our resident Sedgley collector Dan snapped it up and is sharing some pictures.

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Dan cleaned up the wood a bit and took some nice pictures.













[img]https://i.imgur.com/gbXh199.jpg[/img]

According to Dan, this is a very late Sedgley

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That's about the prettiest wood I've seen on a Sedgley.


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Looks like a good find.

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This rifle is #2309 which is the highest Sedgley serial # I have seen. With the large Sedgley marking on the barrel I'm sure it was produced during WW2 when they were making two models, Deluxe and Special which was marked on the barrel by the caliber. None of the pre-war rifles have any model marked on the barrel. Rifles in the 2200 numbers were acquired by stores as new rifles in 1945 from data furnished to me by Griffin & Howe.
Now might be a good time to again ask if anyone out there may have a booklet titled "The Story of Sedgley Guns" that was shown in the Nov 1943 AR (I'll scan the ad and have Fred post it). I ask about this a few years ago and got no response. I would sure like to at least get a copy of what they printed in the booklet.
The rifle came without the Lyman 48 slide and I had what was left of a 48 Mauser slide that I had robbed parts from so I put it in the 48 to fill the space.
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When did Sedgley go out of the high-end rifle business?

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A small note in the Jan 1946 AR says "Paul jaeger of Jenkintown, PA has acquired all the replacement parts for Sedgley Sporters." Thus Sedgley must have been done making sporters.

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The cheek piece on that rifle certainly looks like a Jaeger cheek piece.

Compare my .275 H&H Jaeger rifle:


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Here is the ad Dan asked me to post.



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Not sure what the influence for that style of cheekpiece was, but you see it on a lot of post war rifles. the prewar Sedgley deluxe guns usually used the pancake style and english walnut.


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The pre-war Deluxe guns always had a cheekpiece according to the catalogs but many of them were the type shown above. I'm sending Fred 3 photos to post with 6 guns and both types of cheekpieces. I also thought the Mannlicher style always had a cheekpiece as I have never seen one with out but the catalogs don't say it has a cheekpiece. But you could also order a gun with a cheekpiece so there are standard models with cheekpieces.

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