Northern Arms Gold Sierra

[bighit]

Er, no.

Just for clarification, the competition rifle as shown in the magazine in 1987 is the one that Bruce Gill broke, this gun had a walnut thumb hole stock with inlay work, this stock was sold on here by Bruce to roll27.

We need to search through Bruce's sales posts to trace the action, it could be that Geezer's action is from the competition gun but is now wearing a different stock.

I shall carry out a search in the morning to try to clarify things.

If I can find a picture of the competition gun from 1987 I'll post a picture of it.

stock
http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ht=sierra+gold


another post http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ht=sierra+gold

from the above post

Many thanks mate! Received. It's not the same gun unfortunately, though I didn't think it would be. But the pictures given me more info on the Northern Arms Gold Seara than I had, so thank you, a great help!

Much appreciated
Cheers
Bruce


when bruce bought it

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....=northern+arms


when simmo bought it
http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ms#post4672647

[Baxterbasics]

The rifle that Bruce had is NOT the competition rifle. I owned it for a while. It was Stage 1 Venom tuned and although it felt rather "slammy" to shoot, it was the least fussy and easiest to shoot accurately HW77 that I have ever shot.
Sold it Back to Bruce alone with a collection of other rifles.....

[T 20]

Cheers. My rifle was bought in the period 1996-1999.

Cheers for that, Geezer.

That pretty much confirms your gun as being the real deal, it also adds a little to my knowledge as I didn't know the guns were engraved as Gold Seirras.

stock
http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ht=sierra+gold


another post http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ht=sierra+gold

from the above post

Many thanks mate! Received. It's not the same gun unfortunately, though I didn't think it would be. But the pictures given me more info on the Northern Arms Gold Seara than I had, so thank you, a great help!

Much appreciated
Cheers
Bruce


when bruce bought it

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....=northern+arms


when simmo bought it
http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ms#post4672647

Bugger, being off work for five months I was looking forward to doing an in depth search on the Seirra that Bruce broke.

Bloody well done on tracking it all down so comprehensively though, Bighit.

The rifle that Bruce had is NOT the competition rifle. I owned it for a while. It was Stage 1 Venom tuned and although it felt rather "slammy" to shoot, it was the least fussy and easiest to shoot accurately HW77 that I have ever shot.
Sold it Back to Bruce alone with a collection of other rifles.....

Cheers for that Graham.

I'd always laboured under the impression that the gun Bruce broke was the competition rifle so I'm more than happy to be proved wrong on this as it means that one the Holy Grails of boingers is still out there waiting to come to light --- We will carry on with our search :-

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Due to the useful information gained on this thread, I'll move it to the collectors section when it slows down.



All the best kick

[prosport.177]

Think Bruce's gun was the silver sierra, but It had the gold eagle in stock.. ,)

I have searched his post and see he reblacked an early hw77 action. Just wonder if it was the northern arms one! 😊

[T 20]

Think Bruce's gun was the silver sierra, but It had the gold eagle in stock.. ,)

I have searched his post and see he reblacked an early hw77 action. Just wonder if it was the northern arms one! 😊

It would be a bit of a job blacking a gun that had previously been plated, Charlie.

The plated parts would need to have the plating removed by electrolysis or the blacking wouldn't take, so it would probably have been cheaper for Bruce to buy another bare action to have blacked.




All the best Mick

[prosport.177]

Cheers Mick .)

[Matt]

I have a gold Sierra in .22 been lazaglided by venom.

Keep thinking about having it restored but would take out the venom internals and replace with 25mm internals.

Matt

[bighit]

Bugger, being off work for five months I was looking forward to doing an in depth search on the Seirra that Bruce broke.

Bloody well done on tracking it all down so comprehensively though, Bighit.




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Due to the useful information gained on this thread, I'll move it to the collectors section when it slows down.



All the best kick

Sorry Mick. I could not sleep last night . Youtube was pants too so i delved in and found the above .

No mention of the action being sold unless i missed it?

would any one know the serial number of the rifle and possibly see if its on any of the databases of HW serial numbers?

I hope you do find out where it ended up.