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I did some recent shooting with this Win 94 in 38/55.......OMG, can this little levergun SHOOT. Open irons at 50 yards, using the Lee 250 grain plain base "boat tail" atop a 100%-density charge of Trail Boss.......SEVERAL 5-shotters with 4 or 5 rounds touching. I doubt that velocity exceeds 1000 FPS, but to paraphrase Buckshot--"They won't bounce back from the target paper!" After the first shot, the following 4 shots tried really hard to run through the same hole.
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Gavetta
have one I would sell.
A few years ago I bought one of these, expecting great results out of it. I never could make the darn thing shoot well. Called the factory about it, and they told me that I should only use factory ammo. What a lame response. It actually did shoot fairly well with the first box of factory ammo I bought, mainly with the intention of getting myself a box of brass so that I could load and shoot boolits. I sold the rifle to some guy who wanted it, at that point worse than me. Oddly enough, those same break-open rifles in 45-70 shoot boolits very well. Good luck--there's a buyer for your gun out there.
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I had the forerunner to that rifle. it was the shakri in .45-70. bought it new for $65. it shot every thing 500,405 and 350 gr. bullets. but at 5 lbs. the recoil was brutal. even with the 350 gr. so it went down the road.