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Any chance that Greener was a bored out rifle? You're totally right that 36" barrels are odd, particularly on a 28. FWIW, it's not listed on Cabelas.com, but the others you mentioned were.

No, I do not thing it was a bored out rifle, but that's an interesting idea. The balance was good and they could have chopped it while boring it, not to mention, what do you do with a 36" barreled rifle that is not a muzzleloader?

It was pretty beat up and probably not worthy of listing. But at one time it had been a gun of moderate quality.

I am late to this thread but will chime in on the Luxus.

Luxus was located in southern Ohio just east of Cincinnati. I cannot remember their name but it was not originally Luxus. The local owners partnered with a,I believe, Iranian gentleman on wood. They purchased high grade walnut from cutters all through the mideast. They imported it by the container load and graded it. They picked the best for their use and sold the rest. I used to go there pretty often because they would let you pick through entire ricks of blanks and pick out 5 for $375. These were the blanks left after they had taken theirs out for internal use. I used the best of what I got and sold the remainder on eBay and made a good profit.

Their original business was a cottage industry of making completed very high grade stock sets for Ruger No. 1's. They had developed a CNC cutting system where the stocks and forearms were carved on one side, flipped and indexed and finished. If something happened to one it went in a wheelie bin and sold as project wood.


The stocks were finished and checkered by the guy's wife and they were works of art. They sold them online for $700-900, if I remember. She showed me the whole process one day and this wasn't a small operation they had an entire bay of a sizeable warehouse set up with CNC's grinding out stocks. The finishing sectio clean room area had several dozen stocks in one batch being completed.

They got into the gun business and developed the gun which was pretty unique. It had a pivot system that carried no load when firing and looks to be pretty impervious to wear by design. For a two piece gun they were wickedly accurate and lightweight. The intent was a high end, portable travelling gun with a couple of barrels for mixed hunts.

They ended up making very few of them. I don't know that anyone knows the exact number of them made (in a couple of grades), but I suspect it was in the low hundreds. Jacquas bought, I believe, the last of the inventory ans sold them off one at a time for a few years. I bought one in .22 Hornet and it is a tremendous little varmint rifle. Very accurate, low weight, very good trigger and great wood and case color finish. The serial number was a single digit number and this was at the end of production.

I suspect that the problem no one could accept was a break action rifle that expensive. They were well built in my opinion and as flexible as a gun could be. I like the side lever action but it could have been finished to match the action better.

Thanks for the excellent synopsis on the Luxus rifle. I would never have guessed any of it. It is a remarkable rifle, but the hammer-cocking side lever is just so out of place, it almost seemed to be an after-market modification. And the same goes for the hammer. But the overall rifle is intriguing and obviously a quality piece with superb workmanship in most areas. The hinge joint is scarcely visible when the gun is closed. Neither I or "librarian" could see the joint when we first examined it.

I don't think its price is too horribly high as good quality singleshots go, but it will take the right person that really wants something off the beaten path. - and maybe someone that is capable of making a better side lever. There are so many ways they could have done that better, starting with a normal hammer with a standard spur, and perhaps a bolt-on side extension that would cope with the scope issue, if need be.

Thanks again for the story.