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I was at the Colorado Gun Collectors Show in mid May and picked up a neat Ballard #6 Scheutzen rifle. Then got home and was offered a Remington Rolling Block with Gove style under lever conversion! Couldn't pass it up, even though I was gun poor and broke. So dug up enough to buy the Remington-Gove too!
The Ballard is a factory Nimschke engraved rifle, with very nice wood, and sporting a George C Schoyen Denver, Co. barrel. A heavy #5 weight 32" barrel that has the usual browned Schoyen finish still, and a perfect .32-40 bore!
The Rolling Block is a factory Sporting Rifle with a Gove style conversion to under lever operation! The barrel is a false muzzle .32-40 octagon. Receiver has the typical long lower tang and octagon top, and has a single set trigger. The false muzzle is unusual with it's aluminum knurled collar, which I've not seen previously. Bore is also strange with 12 lands and grooves, instead of the usual 6 groove used on most .32's.
The Ballard is a factory Nimschke engraved rifle, with very nice wood, and sporting a George C Schoyen Denver, Co. barrel. A heavy #5 weight 32" barrel that has the usual browned Schoyen finish still, and a perfect .32-40 bore!
The Rolling Block is a factory Sporting Rifle with a Gove style conversion to under lever operation! The barrel is a false muzzle .32-40 octagon. Receiver has the typical long lower tang and octagon top, and has a single set trigger. The false muzzle is unusual with it's aluminum knurled collar, which I've not seen previously. Bore is also strange with 12 lands and grooves, instead of the usual 6 groove used on most .32's.