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Daniel Fraser 22 hornet

gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
edited October 2007 in Ask the Experts
Does anyone have any information on a daniel Fraser single shot rifle. It's a beautiful little gun with great wood and wonderful case coloring. I'd like to get an approximate value and any history on them if anyone knows. Thanks in advance,
Ed
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Comments

  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,029 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    THESE WERE SOLD AS 'KIT RIFLES' BY ONE OF THE LARGER WHOLESAILERS SOME YEARS BACK. YOU ASSEMBLED THEM AND FINISHED THEM YOURSELF. WHOENVER DID YOURS DID A VERY NICE JOB.
  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any idea what the value is?
  • rock,roll,n,loadrock,roll,n,load Member Posts: 698 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    +1 on what Mike W said.

    They were "kit" guns based on the miniture Farquahson action. I had one chambered in .22 K-Hornet, sold it about 10 years ago for $2500.00, (Had $1000.00 worth of wood on it) Wished I still had it.
    Fine little gun's if built right!
    [:D][:D]
  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have never owned one, most of the single shots I have owned were 19th Century military rifles.

    My recollection is that the Fraser's became quite controversial after the actions were on the market for awhile, and they had been built up into rifles. Believe it was problems with the internal mechanism, i.e either the quality of the materials used, or the workmanship in putting them together.


    For specifics on the problems,that the Fraser's had. I would post your questions to this URL.


    http://www.assra.com/cgi-bin/yabb/yabb.pl
  • joel_blackjoel_black Member Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The problem was with the firing pin. Thad Scott originally had them made in Italy by Armi San Marco. He had so many problem with them that he cancelled the deal after the first small order of completed rifles arrived. Armi San Marco sold the rest of them as kits to Cape Outfitters and Dixie Gun Works. I have one of the original ones in .22LR that had the firing pin refited by Thad's gunsmith and has been trouble free. The big problem is with the kits. There is no way to know who assembled them.
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