Original Antique U.S. J. Stevens & Co. .22cal Single Shot Tip-Up Sporting Rifle - Serial 23123 DVD He is recorded as a

He is recorded as a Veteran of the 9th and attended a reunion in 1908

for its first incarnation

The battalion captured around 75 German soldiers

Aside from the wear

live barrel dated 3-45 (March 1945) together with a 20 round magazine and some dummy ammunition

Original Antique U.S. J. Stevens & Co. .22cal Single Shot Tip-Up Sporting Rifle - Serial 23123 DVD He is recorded as aOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a little beauty, a "Tip Up" style sporting rifle with a very heavy . 22cal octagonal rifled barrel. This is definitely a rifle that would barely move when it was fired. The manufacturer and patent information is stamped into the left barrel facet: J. STEVENS & CO. CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. PAT. SEPT. 8. 1864 Stevens Arms was founded by Joshua Stevens with help from backers W. B. Fay and James Taylor in Chicopee