I met an older gentleman about twenty years ago he used to frequent the shops in my area . He was big into period single shot rifles . His two fav cartridges were the 22 Hornet and R2 Lovell . Anyway he showed me five or six guns he’d bought out of the classified adds in the Washington Post . All were Ballard , Stevens or Sharps based guns and all came with pretty much hand made shooting kits (mold powder measure priming tool etc) . Granted this was stuff he bought in the 50’s and 60’s . Guy was a big time groundhog hunter , he and the Clark brother that ignited himself while welding on top a keg of black powder on the back porch of Clark Brothers Gunshop in Warrenton VA hunted groundhogs together from a specially rigged flat fender jeep .
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Parker’s , 6.5mm’s , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s and my family in the Philippines !
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