Re: Help identifying model and year of manufacture Archived Message
Posted by Gene on September 17, 2007, 9:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Help identifying model and year of manufacture"
Mr. Mitchell,
The gun has "Armour Steel" barrels. The extractor is controlled by a roller on the barrel lump. Interesting to me are the block letters "ARR" stamped on both sides of the stock about 10 cm. above the buttplate. These letters are around 1/4" high and stamped at ninety degrees to the long axis of the stock. It would seem a strange way for a private owner to identify his firearm, and I wonder if the gun was owned by a company or governmental agency. The most credible guess so far has been "Atlantic Railroad". The barrels are 30", so it is not a shortened version like the "Wells Fargo" Ithaca's. Perhaps someone in the accounting department felt that the extra weight out front smoothed the swing when someone was trying to bag a highwayman on the wing?
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