I was a at a local gunshop today, when a guy came in wanting to sell the H&R trapdoor. The owner passed on it, referred the guy to me, said I was the 45/70 nut in the bunch. We went outside to look at his rifle. He said it was his dads, who recently passed away, and he was selling off some of his guns to help his mom out. He also said his dad had never fired it. I looked a the barrel, breech block, firing pin, if it had been fired it was only a time or two. This was marked in gold lettering on the breech, Little Bighorn. All the furniture has beautiful case coloring, as did the lock and breech block. The barrel bluing was perfect, and the bore looked brand new. It had a Vernier sight on the tang, that was case hardened also. It is adjustable up and down, by screwing the arpeture back and then moving the slide up and down as needed. It also, has a piece of steel, that had been casehardened, screwed to the bottom of the stock, to provide a handstop/pistol grip of types. This model appears to be between the one I posted on here about recently, that had a marbles flip up rear sight on the barrel, and all the metal work blued, including the breech block, and the officers model. Now for the negatives, on the bottom of the stock was two dings, old ones. He said his dad dropped it one day, and broke a glass top coffee table. It had two gouges, about 1/2 long one right below the other. That was it, no other negatives. I asked him what he wanted for it, He said $500 and he would throw in the soft case. I did not even haggle, paid the guy and he left. I will shoot it in a day or two. This may be a keeper. I can send pics if anyone can post them here.
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Originally Posted by Kraschenbirn
