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Now that the hammer dropped and the smoke has cleared, what are the forums thoughts on rifle #4 of these five ? Hopefully someone was there or was the high bidder. I was first loser since I am cheap and couldn't see the value in a gamble on one rifle. I saw recovery in the 2 M84 scopes and selling off the Enfield. The 1922 was a M1 NRA sales gun according to SRS. I felt the Remington in #4 might have been a replacement and if so then #5 looked like a possible donor for correct metal. Just the thoughts that guided my bidding and bowing out when I did. So based on RIA's miserable pictures, though better than the B&W in the free catalogue, what are your thoughts?
Thaine

Thaine, yes it was an S-man and your thought about the other rifle having the correct barreled action was also correct. But I don't agree with your idea of you being cheap as you made me pay more than I wanted for the lot. I had to have the S-man to go with my other six S-men.
This rifle is different than all the others I have seen in that the tang is modified like a G&H instead of his usual shape. It must be a very late rifle as it has the short Lyman 48, most of his rifles have the pre 1920 long sights. The checkering is also different in that we thought all of the late rifles had the oak leaf carving along with the checkering. I will get some photos taken and have Fred post them.
The 22 M1922 is an M2, not an M1 and they had duplicate numbers on the different models.
The biggest problem with the S-man is that they had glass bedded the area around the front of the action thus some work will need to be done to get the metal back in the stock. The only other thing bad was they switched the sling studs to Uncle Mike type which will be easy enough to fix. At least they modified the tang of the Rem '03 to fit the wood.
Dan

Dan,

Sorry 'bout that . I am glad you got it, at least we can rest assured that it will wind up in a close semblance of its former glory and will rest in good company. Look on the bright side, I came real close to hitting the bid again button!

I am glad my eye is getting better at spotting things. I can't count how many times I have reread Michaels books and the posts on the forum concerning various makers, and I always learn something.

The schnabel form, stock shape and the fact that the checkering fit the areas he seemed to favor covering along with the comb to cheek piece line were the clues I used to convince myself that it was probably an S-Man. I have blown up the pictures from the forum and the auction and bounced back and forth trying to match points. Only thing I didn't accomplish was make one a transparent image that I could overlay.

Glad you got it, look forward to the pictures.

Thanks
Thaine

Dan,
A photo and description study of your fine S-man collection would be a great topic if you thought you could do that. Just saying....:)
I hope you enjoy your new acquisitions.

LRF
I'm working on a display of the S-man for the Kansas City show in late July and I will then have some photos to post.

I finally got the Redfield base off the new rifle and now I know what the mysterious cut in the wood and on the side of the receiver rear were for. Under the Redfield base was a very large filled dovetail so the gun had a German claw mounted scope at one time. The flat spot and two holes on the side were for the rear mount which must have cantilevered over the rear bridge. I'll try to get some photos taken tomorrow.