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Huvius
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Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971
20/03/13 12:45 PM

TH44, Mark has emailed the ledger page to me but interestingly, it makes no mention of the original chambering.
I need to look closer at it as it is not too easy to read to see if I can decifer it better.
I also thought it could have been a 450/400 originally but in retrospect, the swath of wood taken from the stock to allow for the sight in the comb would have probably precluded it being a heavy recoiling rifle from the start. Also, the barrel shank on a 303 would have been the same as on the 6.5mm I would think, or at least very close to it.

Rule, the little knob is for the sight. I don't know how it works but I imagine that it may have a little disc with graduations cut out of it so as to lock the staff at the prescribed heights/yardages. Maybe I will take a look some day. It would be nice to restore the sight to original some day.
This rifle doesn't have as deep a grip as the other two with this feature so I can't imagine the sight staff has a whole lot of vertical adjustment. Maybe this is the first Gibbs with this feature and it didn't acheive enough elevation, so the later examples had a grip that curved nearly vertical at the gripcap so a longer staff could be fit. Who knows...

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Gibbs Farquharson #971	Huvius	10/03/13 07:07 AM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	texan72	10/03/13 07:13 AM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Caprivi	10/03/13 09:55 AM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Huvius	10/03/13 10:55 AM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	DarylS	10/03/13 12:00 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	MikeRowe	10/03/13 12:50 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Huvius	10/03/13 01:13 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Caprivi	10/03/13 01:35 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Huvius	19/03/13 02:14 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	TH44	20/03/13 11:29 AM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Rule303	20/03/13 12:17 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Huvius	20/03/13 12:45 PM
Re: Gibbs Farquharson #971	Rule303	21/03/13 01:48 AM

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