"New" Pedersoli RB

[MtGun44]

Just had to share this with some folks that would appreciate it.

I found a guy at Tulsa that needed his Pedersoli Rolling Block less than
I did, and we arranged to trade some pieces of greenish paper for it.

I couldn't wait to try it, so shot what I had - my hunting load for my Marlin
GG SS (.45-70). 57.0 W748 under a Rem 405 j-type.

Twiddled the tang sight around until it was kinda near the middle of the
bull and shot the last three rounds I had brought with me as a group
at 100yds. Ylkes! they went into a 5/8" cloverleaf. Not too shabby for
iron sights and my old eyes and a gusty day. :-D

I also had 5 rounds of a commercial cast 500 RN (looks like 458125) over
13 gr of Unique that I had loaded to run through one of the trapdoors,
and they went into about 1.3" at 100, not bad for kinda mediocre bullet
quality to look at them.

I'm kinda pleased with the old girl, and wish I didn't have to spend this
weekend putting down the new bamboo floor in the great room.:neutral:

I've still got to clean the bore, then slug it, and try out some of my RCBS
405 boolits over that 57.0 W748 - which shoots just like the Rem
J-bullet in my GGun.

She's a hansome one, too. I'll get a pic one of these days and share.
Big ole octagon barrel, nice wood, and I just LOVE the RB action. :smile:

Bill

[Buckshot]

.............Great rifles, and hell for strong. Just be mindfull of primer seating. Don't wanna have one standing proud when you flick that breech block closed :-).

I had a Pedersoli Creedmore in 45-70 and it was all you could ask for accuracy wise. But I ran across a very good deal on a Pedersoli Super Match in 40-65. Since I had several 45-70's and nothing in 40-65 I sold the Creedmore to a friend for what I had in it. Here's the Super Match:

http://www.fototime.com/02838B89D2984DB/standard.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/D836FD30A444C86/standard.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/0032D60F7142944/standard.jpg

It's a handfull to hold up for any time :-)

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

[MtGun44]

Buckshot,

Beautiful rifle and great photography, too.

Same here on the 'hold it up for any length of time'. Mine has a straight octagon
barrel, haven't weighed it but it is plenty heavy. This is the first time I've used
a ring type of match front sight. Almost seems like cheating! The ring just fits
around an 8" bull at 100yds, sure easy to see why they were developed.

Mine's not quite as pretty as yours but so far it's a shooter and
pretty fair looking. I'll see if I can find time to set up and
shoot a pic or two.

Bill

[Bad Ass Wallace]

Nice, Mr Ped turns out some very high quality guns!:-D

Sharps 50/90
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/BAWallace/5090cch.jpg