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.30-40 Krag. 30.25" round barrel secured by three barrel bands. SN: NSN. Blued and color casehardened finish, smooth straight gripped highly figured walnut stock with checkered steel buttplate and smooth military style full-length forend with steel nose cap. Single shot falling block rifle with Lewis N Walker's patent under action lever instead of the Hepburn side lever. Top of chamber marked L.N. WALKER as is the top of the falling breech block. Barrel marked in a single line REMINGTON ARMS CO ILION, NY. U.S.A. between the middle and upper bands. Rifle is equipped with a checkered trigger, military pattern folding ladder barrel mounted tangent rear sight as well as folding tangent tang sight, with an adjustable globe front sight. Military style sling swivels are installed in the toe of the stock and on the middle barrel band. The top of the stock comb had two filled holes where a sight was previously installed and there is a blank hole in the barrel for the mounting of a different rear sight. Includes a Remington pattern jag-head cleaning rod. This rifle is pictured and discussed on pages 306-307 of Tom Rowe's book Remington's No 3 Hepburn. At the time of the writing the gun was listed as being a two barrel set with the second barrel chambered for a .44 2-6/10 caliber black powder cartridge. That barrel is not currently attached to the rifle, but is included. The round barrel measures 33" to the threads and is .44 caliber, rifled with 6 wide grooves and 6 narrow lands with a very high rate of twist. The barrel is marked in a single line: E. REMINGTON & SONS. ILION, N.Y. The barrel has been drilled and tapped several times with 5 holes between the breech and the barrel address, over roughly 7.25" of length. A fixed block and blade front sight is present near the muzzle. According to Tom Rowe, there are only two known examples of these Walker Military Creedmore Rifles and this is an exceptionally rare gun. The gun was originally produced in the pre-Remington bankruptcy days of E. Remington & Sons, prior to their failure in 1888. The 30-40 Krag barrel currently on the gun dates to circa 1900 or so. The rifle was designed for extremely long range shooting out to 1,000 yards and was likely owned by one of the top military shooters of the period. A truly exceptional and important rifle that would be a fine addition to any advanced Remington or single shot rifle collection. The rifle includes a hardshell case that is not original to it. Condition: Fine. Retains most of the blue on the barrel and much of the vivid case color on the frame with some thinning, fading and dulling. Markings remain clear, although they are slightly worn on the top of the falling block. Action is absolutely phenomenal with the block operating like glass with the most incredible smoothness and crispness. Fine bore is bright with excellent rifling and some frosting in the grooves. Stock is gorgeous, highly figured, with most of the original finish and some scattered bumps, dings and mars. Forend appears to be pieced at the second barrel band, but matches the photos in Rowe's book. Secondary barrel with most of the blue, showing scattered oxidized freckling and some lightly scattered surface crust. Markings clear, bore bright with fine rifling.