What Is This Rifle?

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:38 pm

Vintage 1935 Gable.

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:42 pm

Remington?

Awsomepossum · Post by **Awsomepossum** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:46 pm

Remington model 8 or 81?

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:49 pm

Awsomepossum wrote:Remington model 8 or 81?

It would seem so....There was a semi-ratty one in Cabela's in Lace for 600 a couple days ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_8

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:02 pm

Yep that looks like it Blaine.

I wonder what round his was chambered in.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:19 pm

Those and their winchester counterparts generally were sold to prisons for guard guns.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:30 pm

Booger Bill wrote:Those and their winchester counterparts generally were sold to prisons for guard guns.

Frank Hammer had a Remington with a 20, or 30 round mag.....

Les Staley · Post by **Les Staley** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:56 pm

That is a model 8 Remington. They came in 25 Rem, 30 Rem, 32 Rem and 35 Rem. Later became the model 81 and 300 Savage was added. I have a 81 model in 35 Rem made in 1949. Browning designed recoil operated. Where did you find the picture? Was it from a movie? Thanks..Les

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 4:23 pm

Les Staley wrote:That is a model 8 Remington. They came in 25 Rem, 30 Rem, 32 Rem and 35 Rem. Later became the model 81 and 300 Savage was added. I have a 81 model in 35 Rem made in 1949. Browning designed recoil operated. Where did you find the picture? Was it from a movie? Thanks..Les

Gable did ads for Remington.....you can Google them....The Robert Stack of the day.....

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 5:02 pm

YES!!! Finally found a picture of Gable with a lever gun.
I'm not green or red but I declare Clark Gable an honorary member of the lever forum

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:26 pm

That's a trip back in time!!
how many in Hollywood would be seen with a gun today?

ollogger

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:21 pm

ollogger wrote:That's a trip back in time!!
how many in Hollywood would be seen with a gun today?

ollogger

Unfortunately Brad very very few.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:38 pm

What levergun is it that Mr. Gable is holding?

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:17 pm

Looks to me a Savage model 99.
Looks like he has cartridge belt and a knife in his lap.

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:40 pm

airedaleman · Post by **airedaleman** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:52 pm

casastahle wrote:Looks to me a Savage model 99.
Looks like he has cartridge belt and a knife in his lap.

Not your run-of-the mill EG, either. Look at the checkering...

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:55 pm

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I think that Gable pic was taken B 4 there was a Model EG.

AFAIK, the EG was introduced in 1938; Gable in 1901 - he looks a lot younger than 37 in that pic.

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MrMurphy · Post by **MrMurphy** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 12:18 am

The Remington Model 8 safety was the inspiration (from what I've heard) for the safety on the AK-47.

KWK · Post by **KWK** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:21 am

casastahle wrote:I'm not green or red but I declare Clark Gable an honorary member of the lever forum[/img]

I haven't read that he was of green or red persuasion, but he volunteered to fly in B-17's early in the war--when the odds definitely weren't in your favor.

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:24 am

He loved his wife Carole Lombard so much, that after she was killed in a plane crash on a war bond tour, he never remarried.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:35 am

He remarried twice after Carole.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:38 am

KWK wrote:
casastahle wrote:I'm not green or red but I declare Clark Gable an honorary member of the lever forum[/img]
I haven't read that he was of green or red persuasion, but he volunteered to fly in B-17's early in the war--when the odds definitely weren't in your favor.

You need to reread what I wrote.

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:25 am

I had one. Wish I had never traded it! RR7

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:23 am

casastahle wrote:He remarried twice after Carole.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable

OK, sorry and thanks; however, that was he married once after Carole in 1949. He was married before Carole when he was working as a gas station attendant, but was already separated before he went to Hollywood and divorced right before he married Carole. The divorce was a big stink, because the ex delayed it for money.

wolfdog · Post by **wolfdog** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:52 am

Clark Gable flew 5 missions with the 303rd of the 8th. Not downplaying his effort, but the bombers he flew on were given the safest position in the formation and did not carry bombs. I do not think this was Captain Gables decision, but that of bomber command. This is what my father told me, he was on all 5 missions, but in different aircraft.

BTW I think the Model 99 is a takedown.

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:35 pm

we lost Leslie Howard, Glenn Miller, among many, many others

Have you ever seen To Be or Not to Be (1942)? Carole Lombard was a significant loss.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:53 pm

The Remington model 8 and 81 were fairly popular around here and the 35rem was the overwhelming choice of cartridge.

Clark Gable is fairly popular with my wife.........

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