Good news and Bad news, what do I start with? Hhhhhhahahahaa.

OK, good first.

Seems dads grandfather was a horse soldier in the UK(???), upon coming to Canada, he homesteaded and started what was to be a large cattle ranch. He employed (they actually lived at the ranch in shacks) Native men as ranchhands. These Indian men were skilled horsemen and were outfitted by great granddad with everything they would need to successfully admin the day to day runnings of the ranch.
This included "rifles". Lee Speed rifles to be exact. So long story short is that as my Mom has been digging around in the items that are stored from granddad, and low and behold there are 8 more firearms she dug out of a old army duffle bag. She says she knew they were around and it was my excitment regarding the first old rifle I got that got her digging to get the rest of them out. There are four (4) other Lee Speds in that duffle bag, a couple old shotguns and what appears to be a couple .22s

Goinout to the farm the first week of Jan to collect them. Thats the good news.

Now the bad news, can you guess what the bad news is? I bet you know don't you.

THe bad news is that I wont be back here again to post in this thread. Thanks to all who have helped out in the ident of this first rifle, thanks to several other online sources I have the complete data from this gun.

You should all thank CaptCurl for his contribution to ths thread, who knows what it could of become without his "intervention" You should all send him a warm thank you.

I have already sent a warm thank you to CaptCurl in the form of a webpage showing who he is, and explaining what he does here. I am possitive it will rank nice and high in search terms at google in say about 30-45 days.

old speed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,out.