2020 September Premier, Volume I

Franz Mack Master Engraved & Signed Custom Sporting Rifle with Exquisite Maple Stock
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Deep Relief Master Engraved F. Mack Signed Rifle
Ranch Custom Mauser Argentine Contract Model
1909 Bolt Action Rifle with Scope and Quilted Maple
Stock - Serial no. B9058, 257 Roberts cal., 23
inch round bbl., blue/coin finish, checkered
quilted maple stock. This very fine Rifle Ranch
custom Argentine Contract Model 1909
Mauser is from the collection of the late Jim
Wilkinson of Prescott, Arizona. Wilkinson
grew up spending his summers working the
family Granite Dells Ranch in Arizona and
returning to his native Illinois for school in
the fall. Wilkinson attended the University of
Illinois and began his career in his families
Central Illinois lumberyards. In 1946, he
permanently moved to Arizona to work his
own ranch in Granite Dells and established the Rifle Ranch,
a gun store specializing in custom rifles, hand loading,
and shooting supplies. Wilkinson was an avid hunter with
expeditions to Canada and Alaska as well as more exciting
destinations such as Africa, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal, all
in the pursuit of mountain sheep.
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