I've never really liked the 7 1/2" versions, but yes I would love to have this one in my collection
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The ring on bottom strap,together with the flap holster is very tipical early australian, and im wondering because the gun is so early, only 3 or so years after the finish of the navy's etc, maybe the origional owner just wanted a front sight just like bead on his navy???
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Exactly!! IMO, guns such as these are evidence that people personalized guns to their own tastes, just as we do today. So many times we of today think that people of earlier times should have treated all guns as heirlooms for posterity, which of course is ridiculous. Most were used as tools, as that is what they basically are.
I would cherish this SAA as true piece of early Australian history whereas someone took the time to personalize it to their tastes. A real working gun of a bygone era. Now if only it said Ned Kelly on the inside of the grips!!
That is a nice single action and I cringe when I see the front sight because I'm a purist but the truth is that most of the "pure" guns never did anything in their lives but lay in a drawer or on a shelf and weren't really used and personalized like this one.
Not sure what kind of adder or subtracter it is to have been shipped to London (depends on your buying market) but I would say if that was just a standard shipped to the lower 48 states saa, it would bring somewhere in the $5500 upwards range in my area. It's not as early but here is one that was shipped to Meacham in St. Louis in 1886 (going by the serial number the frame was made in 1882) that is similar.
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Not sure what kind of adder or subtracter it is to have been shipped to London (depends on your buying market) but I would say if that was just a standard shipped to the lower 48 states saa, it would bring somewhere in the $5500 upwards range in my area. It's not as early but here is one that was shipped to Meacham in St. Louis in 1886 (going by the serial number the frame was made in 1882) that is similar.
Yep you spelled it right, and yes the stew would be still hot and cooking,because the early ossie's could'nt afford ammo, so you would throw the gun and the dam skippy. i have a low wall baby carbine,that done exactly that during the depression according to the grandson, the old chap ran out of ammo in the old 44,so he finished of the last wallaby,cracking him over the head with the stock.hence a super nice rare and rare winchester became a victom of no ammo left,and cracked stocked round the wrist tang juction. o so sadWhile the shooter in me likes the adjustable sights, the frontier aspect cringes at the delicate nature of the front sight. I'd be afraid of losing the insert in the Outback. Wouldn't be able to have wallaby stew (if I spelled that right
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