Allan: I recall discussing the .219 Donaldson Wasp (a wildcat) cartridge with Austin. It was a modified .219 Zipper (factory) cartridge and must have had a following among target and varmint shooters. I think Austin knew Harvey Donalson personally. I recognize the last rifle action as an FN (Belgum) Mauser which came along after WWII. I would guess that these rifles were custom made by some gunsmith. Thanks for dealing with them. Years ago I might have been a buyer but not now. Charlie Price

put them out on gunbroker with a high reserve. the boys out there will tell you what they are worth in today's market...problem is, no one knows the quality of the bores and how these guns shoot, so buying them is a crap shoot...

Allan, there may be some information in the Hogan files that would indicate that Harvey Donaldson actually built these guns. Austin apparently owned Harvey's L.C. Smith shotgun, maybe bought the rifles at the same time.

I will look through the things I received from Austin over the last several months. Most of it is Parker Pages related CDs and paper files but I noticed that some of it is not Parker related. Unfortunately I can't jump right into it as I have a couple of deadlines to meet in the next several days.

Dean

Allan,
Austin and Harvey Donaldson were indeed friends. Austin once told me that, as a teenager, he spent a lot of time with Harvey. Austin also told me that he had one of Harvey's guns.------Daryl

That was probably the L.C. Smith that Austin had written about. I believe he also mentioned it in a Precision Shooting article in my collection. Don't know about those rifles, though.

An excellent book is "Twenty-Two Caliber Varmint Rifles" by Charles S. Landis .
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Two-Cal.../dp/1446502090

Try posting these photo's on Benchrest Central as Taylor & Robbins has come up before.
I am very sure that this would be much appreciated by all there.

http://benchrest.com/forumdisplay.ph...ral-Discussion

And here at the Doublegunshop forum:

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/...Board=7&page=1


Good luck .

I look forward with interest to read what you find.




Glenn:)