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JTOMLINSON

Jeffrey made a 577 3 1/4" NE in Oct 1900
which is virually identical to the first
Jeffrey 600 NE made in Feb 1901.

We can assume that the 577 3 1/4" NE in Oct 1900
was a pre curser to the 600 ?

Not many other 577 3 1/4" NE Hammer Guns about ?

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I've been gone awhile and didn't see this post or I would have posted this here.

A friend, that a few of you know had a 577 3 1/4" Jeffery in 577. I can't remember the manf. date but it was '97 or 98. It had a Rose Wood stock with checkered wood butt. Weighed around 14 pounds and was marked on the barrel flats as 100 grains Cordite, 750 grain bullet.

It was a Jones underlever and came complete with around 100 Kynoch cases, most unfired, a couple of hundred new Berdan primers and about a pound of Cordite. It came with some Hollywood dies obviously added at a latter date.

I have never seen this load by Kynoch or Ely so can only assume that it has always been a rifle that required the owner to handload it.

My friend bought it from a Merchant seaman in Portland Ore., who had purchased it in Liverpool right after WWII, for $1500 dollars in the mid 80's and sold it around 1990 for a substantial profit, enough to buy a new 600 NE. It was later sold through Ted Wood in New York and has dissappeared as far as I know.

I can only hope that at the selling price it has found a loving home. I saw Ted in September and asked if he remembered the rifle or the buyer but he didn't. He is retired and I don't know if he even has any of records anymore.

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