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I have a bunch of 32ga Berdan ready magtech shells (I was going to trim down for my Spencer 56-50).

If you can find a New Model post war Spencer, it will handle the Starline Brass wonderfully.

Or the 56-50. A pint sized .515 that was developed into the 50-70. I plan on getting something chambered in 50-70 so that I can recycle brass for my 56-50.

Hi Herbert,
With the NEI mold, are you loosing much of the lube groove sizing down from .52?

Ohh, I have not even addressed trigger pull yet. 100% of others that shoot it for the first time, look back at me and ask me if this hard of a trigger is normal. 15lb pull would be my guess. Yep,...

Got some time at the range today. 103301

http://www.curtrich.com/BPConversionSheet.htm

I'm sorry for your loss.

I did not get any pictures, but the front sight was at the perfect 50 yard elevation right from the get go. I was shooting a mixed bag of BH209 2f, 777 3f and 2f. I will say that 3f did burn...

Awesome build!

Made up a front sight cover with a blade insert to go over my horrible original front sight.101942

I answered a craigslist add for "reproduction civil war supplies". I ended up getting 400 lbs of lead, a lubrisizer with 3 dies, 125 smith carbine cartridges, a $400.00 .58 cal target barrel,...

S&S, Buffalo Arms and Dixie Gun Works sell them. I do not know the legalities regarding export from the USA?

I am lucky that my original uses the short side blade extractor. It handles 56-50 starline brass wonderfully. I am switching to 32ga brass because it will hold up to 45 gr of powder (30 gr for...

The original load were copper cased rimfire 56-50. Modern centerfire cases cannot hold as much powder thus my inclination to use 777 substitute due to it being 15% hotter than black powder. I am...

I drifted the rear sight back to zero (still 8" high at 50 yards). Gets better at 100 yards.

It is nice having 7 follow up shots in a 50 cal rifle. It does make the 100 yard steel target sing rather nicely. This particular rifle is believed to be 1 of 1000 made. It was shipped to France...

I have been on a quest for a good BP substitute load for this rifle. It is an 1868 Spencer repeating New Model Rifle. Chambered in 56-50. I replaced the original rimfire block with an S&S...

An air mattress blower wired to a battery makes a good remote blower.

I know an older fellow that grew up near some Virginia CW battlefields. He found a huge stash of percussion caps in the late 50's. He still uses them today with his muzzle loaders.

Spencer leavers were 56-50 (.512-.52 depending on vintage). The 50-70 was a continuation of this chamber.

Be aware that the Numrich octagon is not tapered.96286

This is a 62a project of mine with a Numrich barrel.
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Before my madness!

I am getting ready to list my house. My plan is to modify a used gas grill into a smelting station. That way I can lock all lead under the cover.

Sorry, Burnside beat you by 150 years!95999

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