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Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent.
      19/12/10 01:09 PM


Hi jc5

Thanks for all the info. You and your friends here really know your stuff. I appreciate all your collective help.

Anything past grampa is a bit fuzzy in the family tree. It's made me realise sadly how little I know about my British kin. I hope to get that info in detail from uncles/aunts who are still alive. From thier info on GreatGrand dad I will have a better chance of tracking his early life, perhaps his fathers ect ect.

"Was your great-grandad in the service? Was he an officer?"
Short answer is yes for service, dont know what branch or rank he held. Yet.

"The camp fire would explain why the shape of the butt stock is unusual. You can see burn marks at just that point. As for the front-end, if you family history says it was not altered, then perhaps there was an owner before your great grand-dad who chopped it down, OR maybe the camp fire damaged it and it had to be lopped off. BSA never shipped a commercial fore-end with that length and shape."

When you first said this, I strongly dissagreed that the forend was somehow chopped or cut down. But sir, you appear to be right. Heres how I have come to that conclusion and realization, (thanks btw)

All exposed metal on the barrel and action are very polished almost a bright nikel color, very shiny silvery. But where the stock has been covering the bottom of the barrel, it is very dark.

So I thought, how could there of been a forend shortening but show shiny metal all around the exposed barrel. The underside dark part lined up with the forend perfectly. So, I intictivly thought that the foreend could not have been cut down. But...........

When I look at the underside of the gun under a 400 watt metal halide shop light, I can very very very faintly see where there was another extension to the forend going up another 3 inches. It is super faint, but you can see it when you look, I will post pics of wat I am taking about later on when I get control of the camera again. I will take a few side snaps with the iphone camera in the mean time. Thanks again.

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* Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED 18/12/10 09:59 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. tinker   18/12/10 02:06 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   18/12/10 04:06 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. Huvius   19/12/10 03:26 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   19/12/10 04:09 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. jc5   19/12/10 04:59 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. Huvius   19/12/10 05:48 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. rgg_7   19/12/10 05:42 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. jc5   19/12/10 07:30 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. jc5   19/12/10 08:13 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   19/12/10 08:24 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. jc5   19/12/10 10:09 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   19/12/10 08:29 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. 4seventy   19/12/10 08:55 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   19/12/10 06:44 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. 4seventy   19/12/10 07:26 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. rgg_7   20/12/10 12:22 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   20/12/10 07:08 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   25/12/10 06:14 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. NitroXAdministrator   26/01/11 11:59 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. Old_Glass   27/01/11 05:56 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. NitroXAdministrator   27/01/11 05:04 PM
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. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   26/01/11 09:44 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. Sarg   26/01/11 10:26 AM
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. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   26/01/11 12:48 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. tinker   25/12/10 08:10 AM
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. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. Brithunter   21/12/10 11:46 AM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. 4seventy   21/12/10 12:57 PM
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. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   21/12/10 09:14 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. jc5   21/12/10 12:04 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   20/12/10 07:21 PM
. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. jc5   20/12/10 03:46 AM
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. * * Re: Help with early Lee Speed Patent. old_LEESPEED   18/12/10 03:52 PM
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