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I'm sure the folks on this forum who know me will assume I've gotten senile when they see this first picture. After all I've spent more than 50 years collecting beautiful accurate rifles.


This next picture does help save me at all.



At least it has a vintage Lyman receiver sight.



This is the real reason I bought it.



I owned one of these in the 1960s that still sported a Krag stock. It was the only Pope rifle (Stevens Pope or not) I ever owned that I could not get to shoot accurately. When this one arrived today, I took it outside and shot 3 rounds of crappy Remington Target .22 LR at 100 yards. All 3 landed in the X ring forming a neat 1" circle. I went back inside and cleared a space for it in my gun room.

So it is a single shot .22 rimfire Krag? With a Stevens Pope barrel?
I must say, it is Ugly!!

The Stevens-Pope .22 rimfire Krag barrel was designed to fit directly onto an ordinary Krag military centerfire action, with no alteration of the action, not even to the firing pin or extractor. It was sold as a separate item, not as a part of a complete rifle.

Very cool. I definitely wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers!

Wow, that sounds interesting, I'd like to hear more about the technical details of this.

But then it has been said that "only accurate rifles are interesting"....
At the time it was made it was the cats meow of the maker and owner....and appears to be very accurate...therefore interesting. I like it! Congrats

Waterman.
Did the barrel have a separate extractor built in?
Mike

No, the barrel is drilled off center at the breech end to line up with the extractor. What amazes me it that it ejects the fired shell. The other interesting thing is that the inletting is excellent. I just wish the guy had a better sense of esthetics.

Maybe what the shotgun guys call a butt transplant is in order. A cut just behind the action to create a tenon, then glue on a block including the mortise. Then lots of shaping!

an American classic, hands down!