Any Griffin & Howe rifle owners?

[Marksman]

After having admired them for many years, I recently purchased a Griffin & Howe Winchester M/70 in .35 Whelen. I was wondering if there were any other Griffin & Howe owners here on the Forum? I'd love to see pics of your G&H rifle(s).

 

[29aholic]

I had both a pre-64 70 Supergrade in 300 H&H and one in 375 H&H...long gone now, but they were beautiful.

 

[2152hq]

Only the poor mans version!,,the Sedgley '03 Sporter.

Worked on a few G&H Sporters though. All pre war 03 Springfield based guns.

 

[handejector]

A friend of mine collects G&H's. I get to fondle them occasionally.
Quite a treat.
He has Osa Johnson's 7x57.......

 

[Marksman]

R.F. Sedgley rifles were "Poorman's G&H's" in my opinion too. I had several in my collection at one time including a Deluxe engraved '06 a Mannlicher 250-3000 Savage and a Sedgley customized Winchester 1895 carbine. They were finely crafted rifles.

 

[Cooter Brown]

Unbought stuffed dogs...

About 12 years ago I saw one in a gunshop in Roswell Georgia--a Springfield in 30-06, with a Lyman aperture sight. I had never had my hands on one but had seen pics, and I had a fair idea what it was even before I asked to see it.

I looked it over--it looked like it had been bought and shot a few times and put away. It was NICE.

I didn't buy it. I didn't need a rifle. I was on my lunch hour when I saw it. At the time I was making good money. The rest of the day it ate at me and on the way home I stopped in to lay down the $750 they wanted for it .

It was gone already.

 

[jeepjeepwhat]

Pictures or it didn't happen!!

 

[bettis1]

The most beautiful rifle in my safe is Griffin & Howe No. 96x. It is a .30-06 Govt. built on an Oberndorf Mauser action and has a full length checkered rib, 1/3 octagon barrel with barrel mounted front sling swivel. The stock is gorgeous feather grained French walnut with fine fler-de-lis checkering, monte-carlo cheekpiece, and checkered and inletted steel grip cap and butt plate. It is wearing a Leopold M8-4x scope.

The action rings and trigger guard have scroll engraving and the floorplate has a full profile elk. I have no way of knowing for sure but the engraving is in the style of Joe Fugger.

Sorry to say that I've never gotten around to taking a picture of it.

Bob

 

[2152hq]

The closest I have is the Sedgley Sporter. Built on an '03 Springfield action (Low# action!,, but it's still in one piece).
They used Winchester mfg Bbls & butt plates. Lyman 48 rear sight. No rear bbl sight. Thankfully no one decided it needed a set of Weaver mounts over the years.
Military markings scrubbed, ring matted and Sedgley Ser# added in the sear channel on the tang as normal.
Certainly not a G&H,,but wasn't meant to compete with them,,just fill a niche.
I understand they also made a 'deluxe grade' w/ better wood, cheek piece and some (all?) had a bit of engraving on them.

Shoot's good! I feed it mostly cast bullet loads.

 

[Onomea]

Unbought stuffed dogs...

About 12 years ago I saw one in a gunshop in Roswell Georgia--a Springfield in 30-06, with a Lyman aperture sight. I had never had my hands on one but had seen pics, and I had a fair idea what it was even before I asked to see it.

I looked it over--it looked like it had been bought and shot a few times and put away. It was NICE.

I didn't buy it. I didn't need a rifle. I was on my lunch hour when I saw it. At the time I was making good money. The rest of the day it ate at me and on the way home I stopped in to lay down the $750 they wanted for it .

It was gone already.

Yep. I feel your pain. Ya know, I don't think I have ever had buyer's remorse, but I have frequently had that "Darn! Shoulda bought it when I had the chance!" remorse.

There was once this three-digit Python for $1050...

 

[Marksman]

Deluxe model Sedgley rifles were indeed engraved, the one I owned had a modest amount of nicely executed engraving. It also had been a Christmas present and bore a special inscription to that effect on the floorplate. The .250 Savage mannlicher stocked Sedgley had a Zeiss Zielklein scope in a Noske sidemount.

 

[RubEric]

I have two G & H 1903's. Well, one for sure and one probable.

 

[Frank46]

Marksman, you may wish to post your pics over on the doublegun website
under the single shot section. They are big into single shots and fine bolt action rifles. gent by the name of Michael Petrov does a lot of research on bolt action rifles and would be interested in seeing some pics. Frank

 

[Texas Star]

A friend of mine collects G&H's. I get to fondle them occasionally.
Quite a treat.
He has Osa Johnson's 7x57.......

Lee-

Any hope of getting a photo of the Johnson rifle?