This is G&H No. 119, late 1923 early 1924, my first major restoration job. Terry found this at a SF Auction house. It was a mess, the metal had been buffed with a wire wheel that rounded off all the square edges and dished out the holes. Then it was hot blued, after about forty hours of hand polishing I threw out the paper I was writing the hours down on. The stock had several layers of dirt and something like truoil on it that was horrid. I did all the work except the rust blue which was done by Charles Danner.
The bore is perfect, half round with rib, caliber 30-06, the interesting thing about this rifle is it has a “Pike” self setting set trigger. This is complicated enough that I had to both make a drawing and take pictures before I removed it from the rifle. The trigger can be set to ounces and cocks when you open the bolt. Ralph Pike was from Kalispell, MT.
