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H-D Duke

I have a Gibbs Rifle Co. clip Made in the USA has no cal. on it. Does anybody have & ideal what it fit?

rufe-snow

Gibbs is what Navy Arms renamed themselves, after they moved out of New Jersey to West Virginia. One of their products there was a British .303 SMLE military rifle, that was reworked for our 45-70 cartridge.

Here is a photo off the net, I'm not sure if they were reworked SMLE's or how many 45-70 cartridges they would hold?

rufe-snow

quote:Originally posted by jim_lemay
Does it look like a British Enfield if so it is for a 45-70 Gibbs converted Enfield like mine. There are other Gibbs Rifles try Google Gibbs Rifle.


Confusing situation there. As there could be two different Gibbs rifles turned up by GOOGLE. A gunsmith named Rocky Gibbs from Idaho, reworked Mauser's, Springfield's, Winchester's etc. During the 40's & 50's for his proprietary cartridges. As far as I know none of the rifles he reworked used external magazines?

hoosier

THe only Gibbs marked magazines I've seen are the

1. 45-70 as in the magazine on the left in rufe-snow post

2. 7.62(308)for the 2A Enfield Conversion they made (10 shot)

H-D Duke

Thanks but it doesn't look like them.

charliemeyer007

+1 for Rocky. I had a 300 Gibbs on a Springfield, second most accurate rifle I ever shot.