According the the folks in the Rigby booth at SCI, an Anchorage resident owned the very first rising bite ever built ( it was not a hammer gun and according to the Calabi,Helsley,Sanger book there were very few hammer rising bites ever built) and it was taken apart and we all pawed over it at the show. The owner also has ordered the first of the new rising bite rifles and hopefully he will be at the Anchorage dble gun shoot coming up soon.