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mike ford, I tried to send you a pm, but your message box is full. Just wanted to find out when the next B'ham gun show would be that you and the other GGCA members plan to have a table/display?
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Hook,
I hope I have some room now in my message box, at least I tried. To answer your question, I'm not sure when the next one will be. We usually( but not always) go to the Alabama Gun Collectors Assn. shows, and not the others. The next one should be announced in the American Rifleman, but every once in a while they make a mistake. Neither I nor the guys I go to the show with, have a table. I usually just go to Phillip Smith's table and talk to the GGCA guys. We go on Saturdays and not Sundays. The guys I go with are Deacons and can't go on Sunday. If you send your Email on a PM I will answer and we won't have to tie the forum up with this "stuff" that only interests us.
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Hook,
I wouldn't be concerned of the "culled" action so to speak. There are many reasons a piece of steel doesn't meet spec, and all the research and study I have done of Mauser (nothing to Speed or say Axel) I know materials and steel were not found lacking. The Standard Modell actions are considered some of the best.
Likewise, there are dozens of things that could have been WRONG but the action was still fully fictional, or maybe needed a touch of work from a gunmaker who could. Remember, Mauser was a FACTORY, often times the time taken to setup a piece to salvage it would cost more than to make another.
This comes from my experience as a toolmaker and machinist.Comment
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Hook,
The word "cull" could just be the polite way to describe something like Johnny Cash's 1954,55,56,57,58,59,60, Caddy. Some factories sold "rohlinges" (sp) [blank parts] to local gunsmiths, not usually marked with the factory logo. BTW, this is the last weekend in the hunting season, so we will be back to shooting steel soon. I just got the new Rifleman, and there won't be a AGCCA show in Feb.
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Axel said the star strike meant there was probably dimensional discrepancies. It means that the action didn't make the grade as 'first quality', but was still a workable action. I would hope that if the action were not usable then it would have been destroyed. I really would prefer that my rifle was a Mauser factory 'S' type, but then I wouldn't have been able to afford it. Well, that's not exactly true....I just wouldn't spend that much money on it.
I am tickled to death with the rifle. I paid a reasonable price for it and it has been modified so that I can use it as I see fit. The only reason I haven't killed a deer with it this year is that when the two opportunities I've had so far happened, I wasn't toting it! But....there are three days left and the fat lady hasn't sung yet.
Mike, I hope the invitation to come to Lafayette will be open after Jan. 31.Comment
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Hook,
It's open, just let me know, so I can pick a place to meet.
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