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I realize this is a very old post, but I thought I would add my two cents. Robert D. Reeves was a highly respected and skilled builder of muzzleloading rifles, particularly Hawken variations. I...

I realize this is over a year old but I have a Swedish rolling block that appears to be chambered in 36 gauge (.now .410). The Swedes made lots of gauge rifles on both rolling block actions and as...

I was at a cowboy shoot last summer where a guy used prelubed fiber wads in his BP shotshells. ALmost every shell was burnt through and deformed when the powder that had soaked up the lube ignited. ...

I have loaded lots of 12.7x44R using CH 4D dies. Chambers can vary wildly. A couple of my commercial sporters require me to run the finished cartridges through the sizing die in order to chamber...

Yep! The whos, whats, whens, wheres, and hows (and even the whys) of the M79 refinish/restoration work is cloudy indeed. What I have found interesting in the ones I have owned is that:

1) The...

There is some speculation that the ones without the tang markings were not shipped to Argentina, but sold in States. George Layman has the difinitive book on the subject of military rollers. Also...

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Any Argentine model that looks minty blue was refinished in the 1950s when shipped back to the US. Oriiginal M79 guns usually had tinned receivers. The hot blue put over these original...

Since all of the Argentine rollers have had the real collector value refinished out of them, I wouldn't let that stop any modification. Since I wanted to shoot mine in military BPCR matches, I filed...

It would be .50-70 for sure. Price depends on condition. For $900 you can get a pretty decent New York militia rolling block in .50-70 that (in my opinion) is far superior to the trapdoors.

My bad. I was speaking more to the antiquity of the rifles rather than their legal designation as a "firearm."

Sorry ZoroMan they are all antiques. A number of nice ones have come in from Sweden through several importers, but it seems that the supply is drying up. :-( The reason I assume mine is a custom or...

My Model 33 is a custom order or deluxe model with English grip and Norsk (Norwegian) target sights. It is chambered in 9.5x47R. A couple of things have made it difficult to load for. First, the...