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I own a Spanish Tracola .22 revolver that I believe used to be chambered for 8mm French ordinance revolver ammo.

Somebody put some serious effort into sleeving the chambers and barrel and...

Luger..Colt Police Positive Special..Ballester Molina

Yes..the bore is tapered....like rifling and all for however many inches in front of the chamber.

Not like they free-bored the barrels the first 8 or 10 inches....that part is rifled too....I...

The martini bores are tapered. Meaning that the back half of the barrel is large tapering down to nominal bore diameter in the front half of the bore.

I notice my MkIV(B model?) really seems to...

I've been loading the Martini with Pyrodex RS...works fine. I use shredded cotton balls for filler.

You have to watch out for grass fires...

I've just loaded a very few cartridges in the caliber...but yes..accuracy seemed very good with standard .323 8mm bullets.

The bits and pieces of reloading info you find indicate .323 or...

The accuracy with the few cartridges I've reloaded in the caliber is very good. Velocity?..no idea...I would guess 2000-2100fps

I've been using the .323 175gr bullets and 40gr of IMR4895....I...

I have two three-shot clips....I'm told the 5 shot M16 clips will work..with 3 rounds and the rest of the clip hanging out the bottom.

I use Graf's brass and Sierra 175gr soft-point bullets to...

I own a 07/15 longrifle 3 shot version of the French Berthier. This particular old rifle is not 'N' stamped on the barrel.

Something I've noticed about my Berthier is that the striker-spring is...

Mini 14

Same as on my older stainless Mini

I wasn't knocking the Marlin 'Cowboys' plastic buttplate...but more the style. Old timey looking..expensive gun...should have a buttplate to match the period. But no..the Marlin Cowboy has a plastic...

I was rubbing some blo into the wood on my ancient M1 carbine..and noticed a couple hairline cracks in the wood that I hadn't realized were cracks.:(

About the only thing to do (that I can think...

I own a Marlin 1894 cowboy 20" carbine in .45 Colt.

Really can't find any real mechanical faults in the cool little Marlin. Shoots excellent...works perfectly...if I was to 'nit-pick' the Marlin...

I just got a new stainless M92 .44 magnum...it had the same issue. Shot about 3-4 inchs high with the sight adusted as low as it would go.

I took the sight ramp out of the sight and it was pretty...

Pilkingtons rust blue is blue

Could be a crudded up or damaged cartridge stop...or a broken cartridge stop spring.

The cartridge stop is pinned onto the front of the left side shell guide and has a leaf spring behind it to...

This is something I have considered...drilling the screw out, then picking the rest out of the threads....installing a new screw and get on with life.

I've already put a few new parts on the old...

I tried a couple day soak in the acetone/atf mix...no-go.

Keep stacking up ideas...I've seen a couple things here I may try:smile:

Not a good pic to identify guns...but an early Schmidt Rubin is my guess...K11 or older version long-rifle.

I own the M1895 Cowboy's little brother...a Marlin 1894 Cowboy carbine in .45 Colt...it's a fine rifle..just not old.

The Ultramax .45-70 cowboy ammo is pretty mild stuff. I use it in a ancient...

My new Rossi .44 mag feeds fairly slick..slow or fast.

I was somewhat impressed with its smoothness of feed...smoother than a more expensive Marlin Cowboy carbine in .45 Colt I own.

I lowered my sights some..and bought a Rossi stainless 92 in .44 mag.

Think I'll save up my bucks and liberate a Browning SRC next...I looked at a Winchester M1886 short rifle..and was only so-so...

I own a trio of original British Martini rifles that came from the Nepal Cache...this being where both Atlanta Cutlery and International Military Antiques get the guns.

I've got other arms from...

I've had an M1 carbine I inherited from my father in law rat-holed for several years.

One of the last of the cheap carbines..he bought it in the early 1990's for $169 at a gunshow....came with...

One thing about my delima...my screw is still intact.

The old gun comes apart like it's factory-fresh..until you get to the one stuck screw...