![]() They were right.Īt the time, surplus military bolt action rifles were already being used for hunting. Thus, a good bolt action could compete with traditional lever action rifles of the Winchester pattern for use in the hunting fields. Following the war, many sportsmen and makers of sporting equipment felt that demand for bolt action rifles for sporting use would increase. WWI was fought by infantrymen armed with bolt action rifles, mainly 1903 Springfields and 1917 Enfields for the allies and 1898 and other Mausers for the opposition. Yup, the first! The end of World War I had occurred just a couple of years earlier. Was the first bolt action sporting rifle to be offered to the hunting public by a major arms company. Lucky for me, and the rifle, because I know and appreciate what it is. Eventually the elk rifle passed to someone who did not know Grandpa, and then it was traded on a Glock or an AR16. I’m gonna FIX ‘ER UP!” Yes, elk have long been hunted in Pennsylvania and the state still issues 125 tags per year. I think it is a family gun and the person it passed to said “Wow! Grandpa’s rifle. Unfortunately, the seller, a gunshop in Pennsylvania, could provide no information on the gun, leaving me to imagine a provenance.
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