I bought this 1965 GTO from my brother in 1971. 53 years later it still looks like it will run 100 mph quarter mile. The Triumph is a 2002 Bonneville America, still looking like a classic. A 2002...
Type: Posts; User: shrapnel
Forum: Our Town
I bought this 1965 GTO from my brother in 1971. 53 years later it still looks like it will run 100 mph quarter mile. The Triumph is a 2002 Bonneville America, still looking like a classic. A 2002...
Forum: Cast Boolits
This time of year is a good time to finish what I have been putting off all fall. I have 3 original buffalo rifles all in 40-90 Bottleneck. I had, in the past, tried to get those guns working with...
Forum: Leverguns
I have 2. One is a Colt Lightning special order 50 express with a 19 inch barrel and no British proof marks, although the gun was originally shipped to Bombay, India. I have killed some gophers and...
Forum: Leverguns
Yes, the gun is totally original and letters with 14 special order features, including a rare wind gauge rear sight..
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Forum: Leverguns
I have a 50-100-450, which is a big brother to the 50-110. They are extremely rare and quite a powerful round as a late comer in the black powder era. I bought some 50-110 brass just recently, it is...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
As stated by Marlinman, it is factory Remington Rolling Block in exceptional original condition…
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Forum: Single Shot Guns
I took it out shooting, and got these 2 groups at 200 yards. The lower three were shot first, then a small adjustment on the sight to raise it to the upper 2. With that Beech front sight, the whole...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I did buy it. After researching it and talking to Roy Marcot who actually did write the book on Remington Rolling Blocks, I decided to get it. It came with 150 rounds of brass and cartridges and a...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
He has 150 rounds of brass and reloading dies…
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I just looked at this Roller and am somewhat tempted by it. It is a gorgeous gun in incredible original condition, chambered in 40-50 Sharps bottleneck.
I have never been much of a rolling block...
Forum: Leverguns
That was not the intent of the post. The write up and the gun are not connected at all, just the association of the write up and the rifle 150 years later showing that the action held under extremely...
Forum: Leverguns
I was just reading in my 1876 Winchester book about the history of the 1876. There have been many stories spread about how weak the 1876 Winchester action is and I find it interesting to see what the...
Forum: Leverguns
I took the rifle to Greeley to have Tom Adams look at it. He co-wrote a small book on the 50-100-450 rifles and their variations. He was helpful and had a copy from the ledger that showed the...
Forum: Leverguns
I was at the Kalispell gun show in March with some of my Winchesters on display and a guy came by and asked if I would be interested in a 50 caliber Winchester. I told him I would and asked him to...
Forum: Leverguns
I took the 50-100-450 to the collector show in Greeley, Colorado, and met Tom Adams there. He is a serious collector and we discussed all the virtues of this rifle and he was very complimentary of...
Forum: Leverguns
The twist is 1/54 and is marked as such under the barrel. The 50-110 was an express cartridge and was 1/60 for a lighter 300 grain bullet…
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Forum: Leverguns
I am assuming, you already know the internals of that action have to be modified to work the 50-110 cartridge...
Forum: Leverguns
It is a globe sight with interchangeable aperture and micrometer wind adjustment…
Forum: Leverguns
I got the document by Jim Paul and Tom Adams on the 50-100-450. It may not be the finest record of the 50-100-450, but it does cover a bunch of the history on that cartridge. 50 caliber Winchesters...
Forum: Leverguns
I have hunted in grizzly country my entire life. I have killed one of those and it wasn’t charging. One shot between the eyes with a 25-35.
I would never take the 25-35 as a bear gun, but as a...
Forum: Leverguns
The difference in 40-72 and 405 Winchester is the rim thickness. The 40-72 was the earlier chambering as a black powder round. The 405 appeared in 1904 and was way more powerful and as such,...
Forum: Leverguns
Got it loaded and to the gopher fields…
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Forum: Leverguns
I just picked up a beautiful rifle with a whole bunch of special order features…
Rifle1/2 octagon barrel
matted
1 pound extra heavy.
Set trigger
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |