Maybe best 1903 BS story ever

[Sako]

Oh what a story, I don't see anything to back what he claims and 7 grand is a lot of money for a 1903.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=338046137

[Devil Dog]

Everything that this guy is trying to sell has elaborate descriptions and stories. Who knows maybe the stories are true but good documentation would be nice at those prices. The guns are still overpriced.

[Fred]

I saw this rifle some time ago when it was up for auction on gunbroker before

[Rick the Librarian]

Fred's right - this has been for sale on GB for quite some time.

[TomWatts]

I too, saw this posting over a year ago, nothing has changed but the date, and I think the price has gone up!

Cheers
Tom

[The Wolf]

Quite a story!! I mean this guy REALLY put a lot of time & effort into the telling of this tale, connecting the famous gunsmith with a pseudo famous owner, then telling the owner's life story in extreme, nauseating detail. I'm impressed!!!

Yawn... time for a nappie.

Buy the rifle, not the story.

Best Regards from Virginia,

Chris

[Rick the Librarian]

If you wanted a classic definition of "buy the rifle, not the story", this is it!

[Doug Douglass]

I'll buy the rifle for about $750. with the story.

[Griff Murphey]

Nice old sporter, but 750 would be top dollar. Michael Petrov has shown off many far nicer works of true classic custom gunmaking using 03s.

[buttebob]

This is the second time I have seen it listed. I read the story with interest. Always try to learn something new. I don't know what would make a "pseudo famous owner", but I checked the story and the Gen. was a real man and until his death was the oldest living graduate of West Point. Everything stated about his life in the ad was true as far as I could find out.
Roy Vail made custom guns; 150 shotguns and 200 rifles. Warren Page owned one, that being said, I knew of Warren Page before I ever heard of the Gen., and his Vail custom didn't bring what this guy wants. From what I've seen he's asking $6,000 to $6,500 to much.

[Herschel]

Years ago when I was collecting P-08 pistols I had two that came with the same stories, "It was brought back by the soldier who personally took it off the commandant of Berlin when he surrendered".

[buttebob]

Herschel that makes sense. After the first GI took his Luger he had to replace it. Then the 2nd GI took that one.

[rebound]

Russians took Berlin, whats a GI doing there?

[Herschel]

I have tried to figure that one out for years. Perhaps the Commandant took his pistol collection and fled ahead of the Russians.

[PhillipM]

Russians took Berlin, whats a GI doing there?

It was a Russian that captured the pistol, then tried to keep it a secret by hiding it Stalin wanted the pistol and the poor Russian soldier was tortured to death without revealing it's location. His widow found it 20 years later hidden under the floor and remembered how much she hated Stalin for killing her husband, so she became a spy for the CIA. She fell in love with her handler and gave him the pistol as she thought she'd be killed if she was found with it. The spy went back to the embassy and put the pistol in a diplomatic pouch to the USA where it was....

[Rick the Librarian]

It was a Russian that captured the pistol, then tried to keep it a secret by hiding it Stalin wanted the pistol and the poor Russian soldier was tortured to death without revealing it's location. His widow found it 20 years later hidden under the floor and remembered how much she hated Stalin for killing her husband, so she became a spy for the CIA. She fell in love with her handler and gave him the pistol as she thought she'd be killed if she was found with it. The spy went back to the embassy and put the pistol in a diplomatic pouch to the USA where it was....

Now, THAT makes sense!!! :D

[Darreld Walton]

I'm thinking that maybe the guy forgot to mention that this General, back when he was a Butter Bar, used that very same '03 to take pot shots at Pancho Villa...........

[Rick the Librarian]

...not to mention, loaned it to George Patton and John J. Pershing to use as their personal sniper rifle to pot Kaiser Bill ... :D

[Darreld Walton]

Rick, I'm thinking that if that description had been even another sentence longer, that you'd be doing a BOOK review on it. The writer/novelist/seller should maybe be told that it doesn't take 50 pounds of manure to fertilize one pot of Posies.....

[Rick the Librarian]

LOL!!! :D

[The Wolf]

"The writer/novelist/seller should maybe be told that it doesn't take 50 pounds of manure to fertilize one pot of Posies..... "

I believe that pretty much sums up what we're all trying to say here.

Best Regards from Virginia,

Chris