Family Reunion

[Newscotlander]

Roger's just ribbing me.

At this point there is not enough new information to write a Carbine Club newsletter article beyond what is already written about them (NL 196, 337, 348). The two carbines in the first photo are out of a wooden crate of ten carbines that a well known dealer was selling back in the late 1980s through early 1990s. The serial numbers of the ten carbines were stenciled in the side of the crate. All of the carbines were of Winchester manufacture and had very late features. Their condition was like new. The carbines were never accepted by the Government and do not have the cross cannon stamp on the right side of the stock.

My theory is that the carbines came from the Winchester Museum in 1975 when the collection was being loaned to the Cody Museum. The Winchester collection was subsequently donated to Cody in 1988. There is evidence that the museum sent some carbines back over to Winchester to be sold (NL 97). This crate may have been part of that inventory.

The last two carbines and the crate were purchased in 1991 by a collector. He was able to purchase two more of the box of ten, for a total of four. After owning the carbines and crate for fifteen years, he sold the crate and three carbines separately. He still owns one. Brian and I each own one. Ours were not ones that the collector had. I have been unable to track down the crate or the other seven carbines. They are out there somewhere.

So you see, the two carbines in the first photo may well have been sitting next to each other in the same crate for many years. And on a Spring day in March of 2009, they were rejoined for this family photo.

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[Bubba-7]

I was told I had not posted lately and the forum was getting too serious. So I used the fresh looking carbines to make up a post that was not too hard to believe if you did not know better.
I really like the part about the bolts. Now that was funny.
Take care Chris.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

I was told I had not posted lately and the forum was getting too serious. So I used the fresh looking carbines to make up a post that was not too hard to believe if you did not know better.
I really like the part about the bolts. Now that was funny.
Take care Chris.

Roger,
I think most of us 'got it' and the part about the bolts was funny.

You're the 'King of the Bubba's' -
Funny thing is that some of the funny posts you left when you were incognito were not too far from some of the things real 'bubbas' have done!

[Bill Hollinger]

Between 2000 and 3000 a day now. I just read that in our local fish wrap. Every day there are a minimum of three sometimes as many as six or seven just in Bakersfield alone. Times that by how many cities that size and you can see from where that figure comes.