You might consider bushing the bolt face. Have someone drill or mill out the face to eliminate all the bad work, then tap that hole to a fine thread, and make a threaded plug to fit. Drill a hole for...
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Forum: Single Shot Guns
You might consider bushing the bolt face. Have someone drill or mill out the face to eliminate all the bad work, then tap that hole to a fine thread, and make a threaded plug to fit. Drill a hole for...
Forum: Vintage Rifle & Range Scopes
Best way to learn is to take one apart. But if it's a modern gas filled scope there's no way we as amateurs can refill them.
I've taken old external adjustment target scopes apart and cleaned, or...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thanks. Not a fan of Ruger #1 rifles. I'm more into 140 year old rifles.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Yes, a Ramset I think and I'd have to check the color, but it is the lightest charge they sell and fits my .25 chamber great! I Made a breech seater tool for my other Ballard rifles and just made a...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I actually breech seat one of my Ballard #3 rifles that was sent to Stevens to be re-bored to .25 Stevens RF. It's the only way to shoot it a lot and not have to use those silly adapters. I use the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I only have one .22 mold, and it's a Brooks I got for my .22WCF barrel. Not a fan of casting those tiny bullets, so I don't shoot that Pope barrel much.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I load my .22-250 down below maximum also, but still fast enough to take ground squirrels at 40 yds. I use my shorter range cartridges down to .22LR for closer work below 200 yds.
I like...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I'd personally never waste any time trying to load and shoot cast bullets in my .22-250 either. Yes, you can drive a Ferrari slow, but why would you putt around town loading it up? Just get a VW bug...
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My favorite varmint cartridge, the .22-250! I've owned one since the late 1970's and shot thousands of rounds. Never had one on a Ruger though.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I had an original Stevens 44 that was factory chambered in .38-40 WCF. A lot of people told me if it wasn't already loose, it would be eventually. It was very tight, and after years of shooting it...
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Headspace should never be determined by the relationship of the breechblock to the barrel gap. The fact yours is correct in relationship to a chambered cartridge rim is great, and what I'd want to...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
So far I haven't seen any mention of which .25-20 the OP's rifle is yet? No sense in choosing a chambering until he says which it is.
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It can handle medium level .38 Special, but what's to keep someone from chambering a .38 +P in it someday? I don't take chances when reworking old guns as no way to control how they're used after I'm...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
The #5 or #1 actions are plenty strong enough for most .45-70 loads. Not the crazy hot loads, but medium level smokeless loads are no issue. I load smokeless in my old BP #1 actions and my Ballard...
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Winchester did indeed screw this up, and did so when they came out with the .375 Win. which was a shorter case. So they just arbitrarily decided to make all their .375 W and .38-55 Ballard cartridges...
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Thanks again! I am tickled to death to have been able to buy this pistol!
Forum: Single Shot Guns
The bore of ,458" is much too large for a .45 Colt chambering. Why not just finish it as it was intended by chambering it to .45-70, and fitting some new stocks to it. If you can fit and finish semi...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I use standard primers, but not an issue using magnums if you're not pushing the loads too hot.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
The question is which .25-20 is it? If it was the .25-20 Win. it would likely be marked ".25-20 WCF" so it might be the .25-20 Single Shot Stevens cartridge, and if so I wouldn't reline it and...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I use a turkey seat for seated off cross sticks. They're just tall enough to allow me to get down and back up gracefully, but not so tall as to require taller sticks. I have a pair of very short...
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Looking forward to hearing how it shoots!
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I shoot my heavier single shots off the bench, or cross sticks. A rifle over 10 lbs. isn't easy for me to shoot offhand anymore. Bad shoulders.
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Which pistol action? The early 1865/67 or the later 1871 and newer? Does it have the hump on the back of the frame above the grips like my 1891 action pistol?
https://i.imgur.com/912ugt5l.jpg
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Which model? Is this the one based on their version of the #2 Rem. action?
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Looks like the perfect choice for a Remington carbine for a reline! Should be a really fun shooter that wont beat you up.
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 |