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Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection #646345 05/02/24 05:48 AM
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska Mike Harrell OP Sidelock
OP Mike Harrell Sidelock Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska	I was lucky yesterday and won this E. M. Reilly .500 3" BPE double rifle. It will be a nice addition to my small collection of BPE double rifles.

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646348 05/02/24 06:51 AM
Joined: Apr 2021 Posts: 130 Likes: 49 Vero Beach earlyriser Sidelock
earlyriser Sidelock Joined: Apr 2021 Posts: 130 Likes: 49 Vero Beach	Beautiful rifle, Mike. If you can, share more pictures when you get it.

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646349 05/02/24 07:04 AM
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska Mike Harrell OP Sidelock
OP Mike Harrell Sidelock Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska	Will do. Hopefully I'll have a video of it going bang.
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Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646361 05/02/24 09:42 AM
Joined: Nov 2021 Posts: 438 Likes: 140 LEXINGTON KY AGS Sidelock
AGS Sidelock Joined: Nov 2021 Posts: 438 Likes: 140 LEXINGTON KY	Question from my ignorance. Does the term bolted hammers refer to what I call stalking safties? Wonderfully trim looking gun!

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646365 05/02/24 09:53 AM
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska Mike Harrell OP Sidelock
OP Mike Harrell Sidelock Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska	That's is how I understand it AGS.

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646512 05/05/24 05:15 PM
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 372 Likes: 79 North Carolina CJF Sidelock
CJF Sidelock Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 372 Likes: 79 North Carolina	Hi Mike, Great rifle. Can't wait to see more pictures and hear how it shoots. Do you know if it has Henry rifling or another pattern? My 450BPE Reilly double has Henry rifling. It has been far and away the easiest of my black powder express doubles to get shooting right.

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646518 05/05/24 06:17 PM
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska Mike Harrell OP Sidelock
OP Mike Harrell Sidelock Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska	No mention of the type of rifling.

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646742 05/11/24 07:46 PM
Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 3,410 Likes: 401 McLean, Virginia Argo44 Sidelock
Argo44 Sidelock Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 3,410 Likes: 401 McLean, Virginia	Mike, 20674 would have been serial numbered in late 1876, or very early 1877. It was sold at Bonham's auction on 27 July 2005, https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/11775/lot/3/ then at Gavin Gardner on 15 November 2023 http://gavingardiner.com/BidCat/detail.asp?SaleRef=0049&LotRef=63 It has steel barrels which probably means it was re-barreled at some point. Nobody in London at that time I don't believe was using steel barrels even though the Whitworth patent was dated to 1865. The earliest Reilly ad for Whitworth barrels was in January 1882. There is a Reilly pigeon gun dated to December 1881 with the steel barrels. Here is the grain sheaf trademark: This said there is a Reilly double rifle .500 BPE with 28" barrels SN 19953 (1875) which sure looks to have steel barrels. Check out the Reilly History: . . -- Chapter XI: Reilly – 1880’s: . . . .-- sub-para 76. 1882: Reilly and Steel Barrels. https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=436538&page=95 I'd be very interested in knowing if there is an address on the rib or barrels and if there are the Whitworth grain sheaves on the barrels. If so then this is going to be a revelation. Last edited by Argo44; 05/12/24 08:08 AM. Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch

Re: Reilly .500 3" BPE added to my collection Mike Harrell #646747 05/11/24 09:35 PM
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska Mike Harrell OP Sidelock
OP Mike Harrell Sidelock Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,646 Likes: 158 Alaska	Thanks Argo. Looks as if I got it quite a bit cheaper than it sold at Bonham's.

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