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It looks great in the photos! Maybe you should go out and shovel snow for a while and get away from the Hoffman; it will look much better to you when you come back inside.
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Marvelous!! We need to know lots more about the Hoffman. Are those scope blocks for a Unertl? Is the action numbered? Or were all Hoffmans numbered consecutively, no matter what they were? I wondered if there is any clue as to how many were made.
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You might be right Terry, I think I've spent too much time with it over the last week. I need to bed the tang and figure out a front sight. John W. and I were talking this morning and I have Lyman 77 that mounts on a scope base I'm thinking of using for a front sight. That way no dovetail in the barrel and can use the single hole for one of the screws. Anyone think this is a bad idea?  
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Marvelous!! We need to know lots more about the Hoffman. Are those scope blocks for a Unertl? Is the action numbered? Or were all Hoffmans numbered consecutively, no matter what they were? I wondered if there is any clue as to how many were made. The new scope blocks I put on are for Unertl-Fecker type mounts, The ones that were on when I got the rifle were Winchester type and the Fecker mounts were just jammed on. As you can see in the drawing the Winchester mounts would have been correct at the time the drawing was made.There is no number or markings of any kind on the action. The barrel has the Hoffman number "334". Counting this one I know of two Hoffman falling blocks. This is the first one anyone that I know has seen.
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I may have spoken too soon on how many I know about. I went back to the 1938 ad I had for one of these that was for sale and it could be this rifle, 28" barrel, scope block only and 11 pounds.
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Michael, an overdue comment, the only flatside Lyman 48 I know of is for the Stevens 417 Walnut Hill, have never seen one for sale anywhere off the rifle.
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Mark, Thanks, after doing some checking it looked like they used a modified 1903 sight so went that way. I don't think I have ever seen one for the 417 for sale.
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Michael I know a guy who has a junk walnut hill 417 receiver with a Sight on it.Can't promise but if you need it I wili try and talk him out of it. Whitey
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Whitey, Well the rifle has a sight on it now but I would like to see a picture of the one from a 417 to see what they were like.
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