Stevens Crackshot & Hamilton No.27 Boys rifle

[Dutchman]

When you're a real live gun collector you sometimes get sucked into buying things you don't really want, for one reason or another. This was one of those times. Paid $100 for the pair of them. I shot the Hamilton Boy's rifle a couple times with Aguila Super Colibri just to say I did.

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[cwtebay]

Nice job!!!! And very nice little rifles!!!
I bought my first Crack Shot in a gas station in St. Ong, South Dakota in the late 80's. I believe it was $12?
I've shot hundreds of ground squirrels with it, gave it to my mother after she had a broken arm - she killed many hundreds more.

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[Gewehr-Guy]

A Hamilton 27 was my first .22. It was given to my Dad from an an old Lady my Dad rented land from. She said her father used it to shoot squirrels, in Huron,SD. Now I have quite a collection of Hamiltons, which are kind of interesting to me because of their history. They were made by Clarence Hamilton, who made the first Daisy air rifle, while he owned the Plymouth Iron Windmill Co.

His designs were nearly all made of sheet steel stampings, even the barrels being made of several layers of sheet metal formed around a brass liner. They used a rifled mandrel inserted into the brass liner, and formed the steel layers around it, and compressed it into a barrel, then removed the mandrel. Maybe the first company to use that method.

The Model 27 was manufactured from 1907-1930, and was their mast popular model, with production reaching nearly a half million rifles.There was a Japanese copy of the little rifle made and a small number of them were imported and sold in 1965, but I've never seen one. The Hamilton Co. made track components for amphibious vehicles during the war, and was later sold to employee John Hoban. He moved the machinery to a nearby town and started to make his Hoban 45 rifle. All this interesting info was from a wonderful book,
American Boys' Rifles 1890-1945, by Jim Perkins.

[elk hunter]

I too have a Crackshot 26 that I was given in payment for working for a neighbor about 65 years ago. The neighbor lady won it in a shooting contest with an native American man. The fellow gave her the gun after she out shot him with it. I put countless rounds through it when I was young. Haven't shot it at least 50 years. Thanks for bringing back wonderful memories.

[xs11jack]

I was given a Hamilton 10 many years ago. I fired it several times to see if an how it worked. It did. It is one that was rode hard and put away wet. Some enterprizing person cut a piece of fan belt and nailed it on the butt stock. It is a interesting little rifle.
Ole Jack