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MS, Thanks but not my rifle, I just took the picture.
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I think you better take a second look at that gun Michael; it is a Hepburn, a Walker-Hepburn.
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I think you better take a second look at that gun Michael; it is a Hepburn, a Walker-Hepburn. The Remington-Walkers are in a class all their own and I never use the "H" word when referring to them.  This is a Hepburn,  
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MJS --- I have only used USPS Registered mail for the last eight years. As a pro. engraver, I ship many guns out for annealing & back to me, engraved & sent out for color case & back again . Also This same piece will be returned to owner --- lots of reg. mail shipments between it arriving and being returned. I haven't had one damaged or missing parcel during these last eight years using Reg. mail. FWIW
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Terry, Is this the right one? 
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Thanks, Michael.
This is a Schoyen Hepburn underlever conversion. Muzzle loading, .32 -40. I've read that Arthur Hubalek also did some underlever conversions on Hepburns, but I have yet to see one.
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I'd hardly put the Walker-Hepburn in a "class all their own", as rare as they are, they are simply a Hepburn #3 with the Louis N Walker modification. A modification that (as noted) several other gunsmiths did also.
Without the Hepburn to begin with, each modified Hepburn would be credited to the smith who modified it. A major injustice to LL Hepburn, who came up with this noteworthy design.
Just my opinion.
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MJS, thanks for reminding me about the .38-50 Rem--I'd simply forgotten what it was and was confusing it with the ancestor of the .38-55 Ballard, the .38-50 Ballard (an entirely different ctg.). I looked up the .38-50 Rem and found a letter from Ken Waters advising me that it was one of the best options for a project I was contemplating (finally made that rifle a .40-60 Maynard).
Interesting about the extra "soup" the .38-50 Rem provides you for BP Silueta. I know a guy in NYS who uses a Hepburn-actioned custom rifle in .38-55 "Win." for that game. Claims it works fine (everyone else finds it marginal--some use .38-56 Win instead for the same reason you use the .38-50 Rem--room for more horsepower!).
I'm in favor of resurrecting all the old rimmed BP rounds--even shoot black in my .22 Hornet sometimes, a la .22 WCF....my kid calls this load the "pop/stink"!
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