Quote Originally Posted by Calif-Steve View Post
Rick, not so sure Sedgley built high-end anything. They bought low number receivers and annealed them in the back of their shop on a small burner. Then re-blued the rifles and sold them for cheap money in the Depression. G&H made only high-end sporters and I believe G&H primarily used high-numbers. I would be very hesitant to use a Sedgley sporter. By the way they are occasionallly found with 2 (!) extractor cuts on their barrels. Long story, but it was salvage effort on the part of Sedgley. They were very competitive in a tough economy and actually made very nice '03 barrels for the USMC and the Army. They did not bother to cater to the carriage trade, instead they made cheap hunting rifles and lasted in business for many years. But do understand, they used low numbers. Take your chances, if you will.
Steve, are you sure you aren't mixing Sedgley up with Bannerman? Brophy includes Sedgley with his list of "finer examples of custom gunsmithed '03's".

I know that Sedgley used high number 03's (and low number) because I watched one at auction this weekend.

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