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Hibby83

Welcome to the forum! 1912 is correct as far as the production #'s go for the year that your Model 8 was manufactured. You are correct about them being repair codes. Use of date codes didn't start until approximately 1921. repair codes- PG3 June 1938 OH3 July 1939 WH3 August 1939 Can find that infor...

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Thanks for the answers. The serial number is 2692 and I don't know the safety types, but I'm assuming it is early. Condition is amazing (to me). By the way, 30-30 Rem is engraved. One thing, it has a rear peep sight and a previous owner bent the buckhorn sight on the barrel back so it didn't interf...

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Welcome to the forum! You have an early gun with an uncommon caliber designation stamped on it. 1907 there was hand engraved caliber designation on the earliest of guns. After that they started stamping 30-30 Rem on the barrel extension. I can't say with full certainty but before 1907 was over they ...

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Thanks fellas! Tony- I sure did have the thought of using one of my older Remington's in my mind. The buck was around 50 yards. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania doesn't allow use of semi-auto rifles for big game. Good luck to all the hunters out there. If you can't get out, sit back and think about some ...

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Welcome to the forum and congratulations on finding an 81. As others have said before me, the extractor is correct. I personally wouldn't worry about the tiny impressions on the bolt face. I would keep an eye on it though. Regarding the safety. Utmost care and respect must be taken when working on t...

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Unfortunately, some of these get modifications that hurt collectability and value. At that time though, the hunter/shooter had done to his rifle what he wanted to. Fitting a more pleasing butt plate/pad would improve the look of the buttstock. The scope mount isn't an easy on to source. I can only a...

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Thank you, John! I probably wouldn't have posted it if you hadn't said anything in our last correspondence. Thanks Cameron! I originally didn't want to write it out that long, but figured why not once I started typing. You are certainly correct on how some of the minor details from hunts can be so c...

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I had some opening day success at my family cabin in the woods of Clinton county Pennsylvania. Beware- Long post. Backstory first- Last weekend was bear rifle season and of all weekends for N.G duty that was the weekend it fell upon.rats I finished up drill and got to camp Sunday a little after dark...

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Congratulations on your 2nd 1900. Cool that you now you have one of each barrel variation.

Look forward to pictures.

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Congratulations on your new 81, a bonafide F.B.I example. I bet you can't wait to get hands on it! That's the second one that was on G.B in the last few weeks. The auction ended early on the other without bids. The admins here have a database for rare and special 8's & 81's. I don't know as much...

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Congratulations on finding one you like! I look forward to hearing a range report on it.

Enough holes on the 81 to fill the Hall ehhh? Was it on GB? I'll have to look at completed auctions.

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Neat photo of the teardown. The rifle looks good, nice score!

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Yes, that is the correct method to put a scope into a Stith mount.

I can't comment on when rifle scopes started using nitrogen. I can say that I have no problems with my replacement scope that I put in my Stith mount " Weaver K-2.5".

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You can read from this thread about what some have said about it.

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canuck wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:01 pm Link to the online store please!

Messaged you.

I found mine on ebay.

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While doing some Model 8 & 81 information seeking on the web, I found out these long sleeve shirts were made a handful of years ago. It didn't take me long to find one online. Fits me good and one of my favorite Bullet Knife posters!

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Wow! Amazing.... A Peace Officer Equipment 15 round-mag was sold for 2.000$ today! It was in a good condition, but such a price is a lot. For that money you can reproduce one and start a production line..... Well, ave to look further, for such a mag to buy! Right about $2,500.00 by the time the tax...

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Magazine sold to an onsite bidder.

Congratulations to whoever won!

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Hey Hibby, I apologize for the posting I made on the Facebook Remington thread. I had not seen the posting on our Forum. I had not checked our Forum for several days and just now saw your posting. My congratulations on finding this FN. it is in very good condition and will be a great addition to yo...

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chas1949 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 8:24 am Could this possibly be because of a difference in the ammo produced at the time for these overseas. Lower pressure ammo like our 7.62x51 nato ammo vs commercial .308 ammo.

Unfortunately, i can't comment on that.

My spring was between 1.5" - 2" shorter than a spare on the shelf.

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Welcome to the forum.

Hope you find the information and help that you're looking for. Good luck with your 300 Savage.

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I wish i had a way to measure the pitch on the screws, any thread pitch gauge i have access to doesn't go that small.

Pure guess from looking at other posts on the forum. 5-48 range ???

Best would be a good genuine gunsmith or well outfitted gun shop to help.

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While having some coffee i read some more of the posts in here.

No way to substantiate anything, interesting enough the left of my buttstock has this stamp. Wish they showed the 139 stamp in their photos.

Neat to have some theories, but I wouldn't bet on anything.

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canuck wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:57 pm She really shines with a fresh rub down!
As I said on FB, great score!

It sure did! The worst of it "which wasn't bad' was the magazine where it sits inside the receiver, around the screw heads and below the safety "old varnished oil."

Thanks Canuck.

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All gussied up. Burnt the midnight oil finishing my thorough cleaning.

81Police- It certainly didn't give any trouble and upon full tear down, cleanup was relatively easy.

Dan- Thank you, I definitely feel lucky to have come across this one!

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Nice work 81Police.

Very rare opportunity for someone!

Definitely interesting to see what price the hammer drops at!

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Thank you Hibby, it now has a place beside its M8s and 81 relatives. I do have do have a couple questions that may be answered here. The FN barrel nut is quite different, longer and with no hole for removal tool. The spring is also shorter. I have attached pic. Upon dissambly, I checked the length ...

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Thank you Roger. The FN surely feels like a highlight in collecting these auto-loaders. I completely disassembled and thoroughly cleaned up the barreled assembly last night. Fortunately it came apart with ease and was not filthy at all. Now to give the receiver a solid clean, inspection and get read...

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Oliver, I private messaged you a link that would help you out.

Edit- This is TIME SENSITIVE! The auction ends in 6 days.

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Very cool. I sure wish I could know some of it's history too.

Thank you Cameron!

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Thanks John, good tip on removal should i decide to clean out the stamping.

A couple more pics.

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Another photo.

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Big smiles today! I was finally able to score an FN. :D I may have missed it, I’m very thankful John “54BULLESYE” gave me a heads up on it! This one came to me from a gun shop in Colorado. Unfortunately the last owner, who also had a gun shop in the same city passed and his firearms are being sold t...

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Willkommen!

You found the best place to find out more about these ol' long recoil semi-auto's.

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Phyrbird wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:36 pm Is that the original bolt handle??

No it's not.

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Sweet C grade John.

That wood sure has some figure to it. That's a rare sight combination, those flip fronts are really cool and the King rear are seldom seen.

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I was given this Butler Creek shotgun sling and figured it would be fit for a springpole.

There is leather stitched where the sling goes around the barrel "holds tight." I wouldn't recommend using this on a higher condition gun, although on a user I see no foul.

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PM'ed you.

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Heard back from 81Police that this one wasn't in the database. Pretty cool!

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serial # is 44813

Ok 81Police, I can send you pictures from the auction.

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Howdy Chas.

I may be interested in the bolt carrier. Could you send a couple pictures showing extractor channel and a couple angles, front/rear.

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One just sold today in Pennsylvania through Dan Morphy's auction .

Hope it's a good one and congrats to the new owner if they're on here. The bolt handle should be an easy fix.

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Nice dove and cool auto loading shotgun!

I haven’t hunted doves since my late teens/early twenties,

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If you look at any 8 or 81 in less than mint condition, you'll see those 2 spots on a factory gun where the 2 "rivets" in question are. I haven't seen a lot of special police rifles to know if a rivet "of sort" was done on others. I do know that the spots they correspond with are...

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Got it the other day. Thanks for getting the design around and shirts made.

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Happy to hear you had a positive change in the rifle! Hope that ironed out your problem. A couple of my rifles when I took apart the shroud were pretty cruddy and rusty. Cool that you made a tool yourself to break the barreled assembly down. Looks don't matter as long as you can safely take it down ...

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Looks nice, I’m sure I’ll be happy with the shirt.

Do all shirts have your name on them? That wasn’t on the original design you shared.

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The new to me K2.5 arrived over the weekend and was installed in short order. The glass is clear and the tube is clean & free from ring marks. I mounted it 90 degrees counter clockwise of the traditional way so I could use the open sights. First shot on paper at 30 yards was 1" low and 7 in...

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Ok. Yes, i still have that one .

Phyrbird wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:00 pm Luke
I was referring to our Other 30Rem rifle. The sister to the one I have.
Still there?
Carl

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Thanks Dan. The figure of the buttstock is part of the reason why I bought it. I also I didn't have a 32 Rem 81. The buttstock is numbered to the gun. I've read good reviews of Iron Sight's work, I've heard the timeline is pretty lengthy for return. That's why I'm checking into the smaller repair sh...

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