Marlin Firearms Collectors Association

Here's an H&R model you don't see too often anymore:



Serial number 92XX, later style slide markings, trigger guard in the white.

I like all these H&R target types you guys are sharing here. That 777 single action is cool. I wonder if in that period a gun with those specifications would have been used in serious competition. That'd be a interesting area to research. On the 999, is that hammer machine turned? Would tend to ...

I've never seen a nickeled Sportsman before. Do you believe it to be original?

Here's a Sportsman c.1932....

Regarding the bolt operating handle for this rifle, could someone perhaps take a picture of an original one & post it (or e-mail it to me), or at the very least give a good verbal description of the details of its construction & appearance?