Harry Melville Pope (August 15, 1861 – October 11, 1950) was an American gunsmith remembered for manufacturing precision rifle barrels.
Harry learned mechanical skills working in the shop where his Uncle Albert Pope manufactured bicycles.
At age 12 he used the bicycle shop tools to rifle a brass barrel for an air-powered dart gun.
[2] He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1881 with a mechanical engineering degree, and worked for his Uncle at the Pope Manufacturing Company until 1904.
[3] His rifle barrels were used by noted riflemen including Franklin Ware Mann, Townsend Whelen, and Ned Roberts.