Steven,
would agree with most of what you wrote and add the Wickliffe action as well. The one bit of exception I would take is with your summary of the Peregrine action. While it never did make "mass production" status, and never was meant to, there were enough of them made and distributed to gain a sort of cult following, with me being one of the cult. I'm guessing there were a couple of hundred completed, but as they were sold as actions only (he never made completed rifles) I don't know what kind of rifles they became, or how many are still in boxes waiting for somebody to barrel and stock them.
Another action I am curious about is a fairly massive hammerless DST action called the "Alleghany" or some such? Charlie Dell ordered one 15-20 years ago and when he saw how big it was decided not to finish it. He gave it to me when it became obvious that he wouldn't find an application, but now it's in a cigar box in MY basement and not getting finished. If anybody has any kind of idea what this is or anything about its history, I would like to hear about it. It could best be described as a sort of DST version of a Ruger #1.
TIA for any information provided,
Charlie Shaeff, the Green Frog
