The Last of the Grade 10 Suhls . . .

[Joe Haller]

I was able to buy a grade 10 Suhl from Dave Smith, down in Florida four years ago. Man! What a prize that rifle is! A year later, one of my friends wanted a good Suhl. I heard that Jim Williams still had some of his "Grade 10s", so I called him. He said he was saving some of them for his Grandchildren, but that he would sell me one. Then: We had two grade 10s UP here in our club at Sault Ste. Marie.

Two weeks ago I saw an ad here in Benchrest Central's classsifieds, stating that Jim was selling the last of his Grade 10s. I sent an e-mail, and was told there were only four left. My respond was: "I'll take them".

They came yesterday, complete with test targets.

Two of them had labels on the stocks with the names of Jim's grandchildren. One was marked "Jim's back-up rifle", and the fourth had a label indicating it was Jim's personal rifle.

As some of you know, I am not a dealer, and not a collector. My hobby since I retired has been promoting rimfire benchrest. I plan to "play" with those Suhls, until they are well tuned: Then I'll sell them to four of our local club members. We have several who are in the Sporter/Vintage Classes now, and I plan to tempted them to "move up".

Should not be too hard to sell a well tuned Grade 10 Shul, should it?

Joe Haller

 

[grog]

Joe your 2009 Schedule

Joe,

If you have your 2009 schedule what is it. If not set yet when will it be out.

Thanks.

 

[Joe Haller]

Suhls in U.P. Matches

George:
Those Suhls won't be up for sale until Spring after we "tune" them. Too much snow and freezing weather UP here to be testing them for accuracy at this time of year.

Grog:
Where are you? UP LP or Cheese Land?
Been working on the schedule for our club's events for the past two weeks. We still have some date conflicts, but they do not involve our rimfire benchrest matches. We have been running 25 & 50 yard matches on the USBR target for the past nine years. Our new 200 yard range is finally built, so next year we are going to add some 200 yard rimfire metallic silhouette matches.

Here is our schedule for 2009:
Rimfire Benchrest Matches
25 & 50 yard matches on the USBR target.
60 to 200 yard matches with steel animal targets.
Contact person: Joe Haller (906) 632-3122 hallermac@aol.com