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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.

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I must have missed something...? :-(

Anyway, this was damn interesting and hopefully Old LeeSpeed will dig into his family history and get it down on paper, and not just the history of the rifles. More is lost with every generation that goes by.

My guess is the reciept in the butt trap was just a way of preventing that single round from rattling about.

Jc5 I agree completely about recording the history of rifles and attaching it to them physically. In the butt trap or under the forend. We often hear "buy the gun, not the story", but when the story can be established it adds SO much to the interest and the value. Old LeeSpeed's rifle would just be a tired old Lee, but with the story, a real piece of history. The fact that they were issued to the Indian ranchhands would explain the wear and tear. This is not a statement of prejudice, but it's pretty well established now that maintenance is not a strong point where guns are concerned.

Old LeeSpeed if you're reading this I hope you'll reconsider. Either way, it sounds like you've got an interesting family history and I hope you'll find the time to record it for future generations of your family. You should be able to find out when you Great Grandfather came out to Canada and on what ship, with who etc.

We should know where and who we came from.

'scuse my litle sermon everyone!