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Very Interesting Vermont Target Rifle by Asa Story w/ Remington Barrel & External Mechanism
Guns International #: 103539000 Seller's Inventory #: 52585
Category: Antique Rifles - Percussion - Antique Rifles - Target
Seller's Information
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1308
Total Number of Listings: 26207
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $500! We also have a 30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection.
Payment Types Accepted: We take all major credit cards with NO CREDIT CARD FEES! Also Check or Money order.
About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material. We offer free Shipping for orders over $500.
Description:
NSN, .38 Caliber, 28 3/4" heavy octagon barrel with a very good bore that has mild freckling within the grooves. This is a well-made and handsome rifle that utilizes a distinctive, external mechanism percussion lock, almost identical in construction to those invented and built by Herkimer, NY, maker Wyllys Avery. The barrel itself has an overall gray patina with scattered specks of plum-brown freckling scattered throughout. The top right barrel flat has a faint, but still legible "REMINGTON" marking at the breech, with "A. STORY / WINDSOR VT." on the top flat just ahead of the rear sight dovetail. The lock, as stated previously, is of the external mechanism type; with an exposed mainspring much like those found on miquelet locks, and a thick plate covering the sear mechanism behind the hammer. The cover plate is stamped "D. LOCKE" on the face and the lock is mated to a fully functional double-set trigger. The wedge-fastened stock has numerous small handling marks and surface blemishes scattered throughout, as well as some mild wear to the oil finish along the wrist. The brass and German silver inlays are excellent and mostly unadorned, but the oval plaque on the left side of the buttstock has a nicely engraved American Eagle with floral border. These distinctive locks had the advantage of not requiring a great deal of wood removal for lock inletting, thus reducing any potential weakening of the stock at wrist. These rarely seen locks are a very interesting footnote to the development of the American percussion target rifle, and this example rates very good-near fine condition overall. Antique;
Price: $2,795.00
Antique: Yes