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I awoke this morning to seven emails of congratulations so I guess more people were watching this than I thought. The rifle first showed up over a month ago, bidding went way beyond what I thought the rifle was worth but the high bidder did not pay for it. The owner quickly tripled his starting price and got no bids, I kept watching and after he got more realistic, I bid. I also wish to thank all the folks who wrote me about the rifle and did not bid .
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=147223751

Sweet rifle and congrats.
Art

Same here. Awsum. Whitey

Michael, it will be interesting to find out where those actions came from ..... did Hoffman make them or were they imported? Have always wondered.

According to all information I have they were made by Hoffman. It will be a week or two before it makes it way to Alaska so I might learn more then. This rifle needs a lot of work, both the front and rear sights are missing, the stock is broken and possible the lower tang is bent, and the lever is bent in the middle. I guess this will be my next restoration project.

Michael, great find, and a very neat project rifle! Keep us posted as the restoration progresses.

Greg

Congratulations on a rare find! This rifle is certainly worth restoring and seems an ideal candidate for your efforts. When you get the thing I would like to see more pictures of the action bits, it is a new one to me.

Zowie! I thought I was up on American single shots, but I find I have never even heard of a single shot by Hoffman. Please tell us more.

2nd the Zowie,etc.!!

Well it will take some more research, and a article, to try to get to the bottom of these. When I wrote my first Hoffman article I had a lot of folks ask if any of these were made or if it was an idea that never got off the ground. One of the problems is that the ads for them in the magazines and the catalog looked more like drawings than a photo it was hard to tell. I think I have information on three of these but until this one surfaced I had never seen one. About the time Hoffman was bought and moved to Oklahoma is when these were introduced.
They were advertised in several calibers from .22LR to 32-40.

Another interesting thing about this rifle is the early Fecker-Cleveland scope which would date to the rifle but I believe that the mounts are a little later. If I write about the rifle I'll also write about the early years of Fecker and his dad in Cleveland. Does anyone have a Cleveland-Fecker scope?

Looks like the same rifle to me.