new rifles from C Sharps

[6.5 mike]

[smilie=w:, Wife just e-mailed me, C Sharps 1885 in 32-40 will be ready to ship next week. Was able to bring the 1875 in 38-55 home when we were there. Now I really want off this boat, LOL.

[Southern Son]

[smilie=w:, Wife just e-mailed me, C Sharps 1885 in 32-40 will be ready to ship next week. Was able to bring the 1875 in 38-55 home when we were there. Now I really want off this boat, LOL.

You do know about the forum rule that says if you are bragging about a gun, you have to post photos as soon as you can.:mrgreen:

[6.5 mike]

That will be a good trick, everytime I try it says my pic's are to big. Besides I do'nt get off the boat until the 26th. I will give it another try when I get home. I are a dummy bout this modern stuff, lol.
The Lee Shaver sights I ordered for the 1875 should be there also.

[Buckshot]

.............Mike, congratulations on the new rifle, and bless your wife's heart for being gracious about letting you know:D And so far as Southern Son's comment about pictures, he's right! So far as all us are concerned it just ain't happened till us heathens see proof :kidding:

BTW, if you're downloading straight from a camera some of'em download monstrous sized photo's. Some have settings in the camera you can adjust downloaded photo sizes, or simply get a cheap photo editing program. Probably even some basic ones free to download.

...............Buckshot

[6.5 mike]

Thanks for the tip, Bckshot, I'll have to check her camera & see if I can size the pics. And my sights are there also, now I have to call Lee Shaver back when I get home, Oh darn the bad luck.

[flint45]

6.5 mike enjoy i have a c.sharps 1875 in .40-65 won sum bufflo shoot matches with it.veary accurate rifle and great fit and finnish.boy i miss those bufflo shoots...range was closed.

[leadman]

Check the camera setting and set it for the lowest pixel count. Way easier if you can do this before taking the picture. My Nikon has a setting for the number of pictures held on the memory, more pictures, less pixels per picture.

[Buckshot]

6.5 mike enjoy i have a c.sharps 1875 in .40-65 won sum bufflo shoot matches with it.veary accurate rifle and great fit and finnish.boy i miss those bufflo shoots...range was closed.

.............If you're talking about Inland Fish & Game, I agree. I shot there for 30 years. Now instead of driving 8.4 miles round trip, it's 80 miles round trip to Lytle Creek, and it simply, 'Ain't Home'! [smilie=l:

..............Buckshot

[NickSS]

I have several C sharps rifles and they are all winners. I got my first one in 1992 and the last one in 2009. I am sure you will have a ball with them.

[6.5 mike]

Called C Sharps this morning with the rest of the funds, FFL is also there. Now the waiting, with luck it will be shipped before I get off the boat, range it's going to I have to pass on the way to the house. :bigsmyl2:

[Wayne Smith]

Check the camera setting and set it for the lowest pixel count. Way easier if you can do this before taking the picture. My Nikon has a setting for the number of pictures held on the memory, more pictures, less pixels per picture.

Or import them to Microsoft Paint and downsize.

[6.5 mike]

What moulds & alloys are you using with these rounds? I have a lee 250 fp for the 38-55 & a lee 175 8 m/m mould I'll try for the 32-40. Loaded 50 38-55's with 9 grs of unique, ww primers & ww brass ( fellow at the range gave me 3 new bags).
I made some dummy rounds for the 32-40 using bout 6 32 win spl cases, sized the 175's down to 0.316 & wrapped some with tracing paper, finished size was 0.321. Did others with printer paper, came out at 0.323. I'll slug the bbl when I get it & see what I really need. Plan is to shoot pp'ed in both rifles.
I do have some 25-1(cabintree tested), thinking it would be a good place to start.
Also what length brass are you using in the 38-55 ? When I talked to C Sharps on monday the said their chambers are cut to SAAMI specs, I think that means the short win cases.
I have checked back through the archives & searchs, was wondering if anybody had tried anything new. I've got unique, red dot, 4198, 5744 & some others to try. Thanks for the help on posting pics, & any thing else ya'll can think of.

[Buckshot]

What moulds & alloys are you using with these rounds? I have a lee 250 fp for the 38-55 & a lee 175 8 m/m mould I'll try for the 32-40. Loaded 50 38-55's with 9 grs of unique, ww primers & ww brass ( fellow at the range gave me 3 new bags).
I made some dummy rounds for the 32-40 using bout 6 32 win spl cases, sized the 175's down to 0.316 & wrapped some with tracing paper, finished size was 0.321. Did others with printer paper, came out at 0.323. I'll slug the bbl when I get it & see what I really need. Plan is to shoot pp'ed in both rifles.
I do have some 25-1(cabintree tested), thinking it would be a good place to start.
Also what length brass are you using in the 38-55 ? When I talked to C Sharps on monday the said their chambers are cut to SAAMI specs, I think that means the short win cases.
I have checked back through the archives & searchs, was wondering if anybody had tried anything new. I've got unique, red dot, 4198, 5744 & some others to try. Thanks for the help on posting pics, & any thing else ya'll can think of.

..............I havn't done a lot of work with my 32-40 scheutzen rifle yet. It's groove is .322". I bought the Lyman mould intended for it (165gr FNPB) but it drops from the mould (WW alloy) at barely .321".

http://www.fototime.com/A8D46B856BF255E/standard.jpg

My very first outing with it using cast was with the above slugs. LEFT: Lyman 323471 @ 217 grs and RIGHT: The heavy (236gr) 8mm slug I'd done as a group buy from Lee many years back. Neither stabilized in the rifle's 16" twist. I do have an old SC mould by Barry Darr that's 165grs plus the 2 Saeco (165gr & 200gr) moulds. I've not cast from either of them yet. I also have the Lyman 323470 mould for a 165gr RNGC 8mm boolit. I'm thinking of boring out the GC shanks and using it for this rifle. Right now I have 50 rounds loaded using the Lee C323 - 175 slug.

So far my Uberti Hi-Wall in 38-55 has done it's best work with swaged paper patched slugs.

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These in this photo were loaded with BP, but those with smokless look the same. That bottom right boolit hole was made by a Lee slug from a different group. Those lines are 1.25" apart, and if not for that 'leaker' at bottom left, the group would have been .875". That's 10 rounds at 100 yards. The slugs I swaged up in this batch all had a shallow (.200") HP.


...............Buckshot

[NickSS]

One load that is a consistent winner for me is the lee 250 gr sized .379" over 18 gr of AA 5744. It is not high speed but very consistent in accuracy. I have not had a 32-40 rifle for years but did shoot some with 8 gr of red Dot that was very accurate in a relined Ballard that I used to own.

[flint45]

yea buckshot...fish & game and before that San Gabrail valley gun club both places were great and now gone. We need to protect and enjoy what we still have . knocking down those old steel buffalos was fun and miss the guys we used to shoot with.

[Buckshot]

yea buckshot...fish & game and before that San Gabrail valley gun club both places were great and now gone. We need to protect and enjoy what we still have . knocking down those old steel buffalos was fun and miss the guys we used to shoot with.

..............A few of the board members are supposed ot be working with the San Manuel Indian casino about a new range. The BLM has proposed a place about 3 miles east of the current location. Althought it's currently in the condition mother nature made it, the location would permit longer ranges and a much larger facility then Inland had. It would also be safe from developers as it'd be shooting north north-west into the mountain.

One issue is the board of directors who to a man with one exception is made up of shotgunners. The man who is the exception is the lead man working with San Manuel, and the LEAST of his concerns is shotgunners. After all, there is practically an Olympic level shotgun facility with an onsite gunsmith not 3 miles south of where Inland is/was. I have high hopes!

................Buckshot

[6.5 mike]

Nick, I'll try your red dot load, remember seeing some listed in the lyman book.

Buckshot, where did you get your scheutzen rifle ? I saw it on the ASSRA site, that's quite a piece of work. I would bout be afraid to handle it, lol.

The 32-40 is a 1 in 14 twist, I'm in on the GB for modified 323471. This should make a good paper patch core at 210 grs.


The 38-55 is a 1 in 15 twist, the lyman 335 gr should be ok in it.

Bullshot has been kind enough to offer to loan me some moulds to work with while I make up my mind about weights.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN:bigsmyl2:

[gandydancer]

I sold my 32/40 years ago I had two a shilo & a german made I forget the maker while looking for the molds friday I found 112 rounds of new never used 32/40 brass in winchester box's inside a GI ammo can that had not been opened in over 50 years with some old winchester beach front sights & winchester model 86 fireing pins & 2 springfield 1863 hammers yes I'm old.I think I will sell the iron. and get another 32/40 wadda think????

[gandydancer]

anybody know what the twist is on the buffalo H & R in 38/55 is ? thanks. gandy

[gandydancer]

As we Silver Surfers know, sometimes we have trouble with our computers.
I had a problem yesterday, so I called Eric, the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over.
Eric clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong ?
He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.'

I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless enquired,


'An, ID ten T error ? What's that? In case I need to fix it again.'


Eric grinned .... 'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before ?


'No,' I replied.


'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure it out So I wrote down:


ID10T


I used to like Eric, the little bastard.

[Buckshot]

6.5 mike, I got the rifle from a friend who'd originally bought it from a friend of GopherSlayer's. GopherSlayer had an Aydt in 8.15x46, and it was a wonderment.

gandydancer, "I think I will sell the iron. and get another 32/40 wadda think????"

Sounds like a plan to me! :-)

.................Buckshot

[6.5 mike]

dancer, + 10 on another 32-40,lol. :popcorn:

[6.5 mike]

Stopped at the range on the way to the house, hiwall was there, already called Lee Shaver & ordered the sights. Barrel is 0.314/0.3205, need to open my sizer just a bit then get busy pp'ing. :drinks:

[Buckshot]

Stopped at the range on the way to the house, hiwall was there, already called Lee Shaver & ordered the sights. Barrel is 0.314/0.3205, need to open my sizer just a bit then get busy pp'ing. :drinks:

.............Tight barrel! As mentioned, mine is .314" x .322". GopherSlayer came over the other day with his new (to him) FBW actioned 32-40 offhand rifle. Has a Clerke bbl. Upset a slug and got a .322" groove. Couldn't figure the lands as it has 7 narrow lands (wide grooves). It would accept a .314" minus pin gage, but just refused a .315".

................Buckshot

[6.5 mike]

Sized down 100 lee 175 grs, opened my sizer to 0.316, 2 wraps of tracing paper brought them up to 0.322. Have 100 new w-w cases primed & ready to load. When I get back from visiting my mom today will load & check for fit. Going to use Nick's red dot load. Still waiting on the sights.

Shot the 38-55 on friday, what a pleasure. After setting the sights was able to keep 19 of 26 rounds in a ragged hole, only 50 yds but most promising. Using the unset trigger only, it breaks at 3 lbs, set is 6 ozs. Fire forms the brass nicely. Unsized boolit is a tight slip fit in fired case, will need a bit of neck tension. I'm a real happy camper. :Fire: