My Favorite, IH's, the Tractor Rifles

[K98kG43]

Here is my Tractor collection.

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[Striker62]

Nice collection. That one on the right is missing the gear case at a minimum.

[RCS]

What are some of your rarest? examples ? i
I understand the H&R/IHC receiver was considered to be rare

[Striker62]

I wouldn’t think IHS are considered “rare” as they were made post WWII. They can be more correct than older mix masters, especially those made late Korea war or afterwards. IHS are said to be the best shooters.

[K98kG43]

Nice collection. That one on the right is missing the gear case at a minimum.

Yeah that one is in for an overhaul lol!

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What are some of your rarest? examples ? i
I understand the H&R/IHC receiver was considered to be rare

I have the SA/IH Posatge Stamp, only made ~700 of them, an SA/IH Arrow Head ~1000 made, they both have the early OR stock with the crossed cannon cartouche. I have both Gap-Letters, and a 4.5mill, a 4.6mill and 5mill IH variations all with the right OR stocks. I need a HRA/IH receiver to finish out the set, they made around ~2000 of these but I don't ever see any, wonder if a bunch were sent to Iran before the revolution and that's why they aren't very plentiful. Alot of these IH's went to S. Korea.

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Forgot to mention the one in there is a IH receiver reworked into a M14/M1A configuration, neat piece, looks to have been done some time ago.

[browningautorifle]

Forgot to mention the one in there is a IH receiver reworked into a M14/M1A configuration

I had a recipe here to do one of those to use my M14 parts to best effect as ours are prohibited. But an M1 marked receiver is OK. I just never got it done before everything went to crap here.

Nice rifle pile...you don't have one of Saddam's rifles there do you, I hear he had a couple as family rifles to shoot great hare with over there...

[K98kG43]

I had a recipe here to do one of those to use my M14 parts to best effect as ours are prohibited. But an M1 marked receiver is OK. I just never got it done before everything went to crap here.

Thanks! My father and I farmed so we started collecting the IH's some years ago, picking up nice ones when we could, sold some along the way. He passed away last year so I took over the collection curation. That M14 was a weird deal, 2 popped up on gunbroker years ago same day, different parts of the country, both IH's, except the one looked like a high school shop class project and this one somebody obviously had done it before. Never seen any other IHs since. Couldn't let it go being it fit the collection and all!

[Striker62]

Nice collection OP. I forgot about those rifles under the first contracts where they could not figure out how to make the receiver and had to get these and additional parts from other manufacturers. IHS still some of the best made once they got their act right.

[RCS]

There was suppose to be a most complete book on the IHC rifles, been in the works for years but yet to be published ?

[Bob Seijas]

Here's some interesting data from my early research interviews in the late 1970s... Floyd LeGendre was the guy who stayed in the plant until the actual closing day. He told me that after everything was gone, a truck delivered a crate from Springfield Armory that turned out to be 10 rifles sent for parts interchangeability testing. He had no idea what to do with them, everything had been turned in and the closing was finalized, so he loaded the crate into the trunk of his car and waited until dark... then he drove down to the river and threw them in! OUCH!