I have been seeing some rifles for sale chambered in Dan Theodore .38-70. What is this chambering? Is it a variation on one of the old Winchester rounds or something new? Just curious. Thanks.
I have been seeing some rifles for sale chambered in Dan Theodore .38-70. What is this chambering? Is it a variation on one of the old Winchester rounds or something new? Just curious. Thanks.
It'll be Dan's version of that reamer. It'll probably feature a short cylindrical section near the case mouth and maybe zero freebore. Dan's stuff seems to work quite well and I haven't gone wrong when following his advice.
Chris.
Why not ask him? He hangs out on the BPCR forum.
http://www.bpcr.net/index-a.htm
I bought a reamer from him a while back, good guy to talk with and really seems to like discussing chamber and boolit dimensions!
-Nobade
Just curious what it was. Info I have seen on it indicates that chambering has been used to win a number of national matches with BPCR's and I was wondering what it was.
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.49594...08632&pid=15.1
I'm sure if you took those dimensions, drew up a chamber drawing to match it and the barrel based on some of Dan's other chambers floating around on the internet, you could arrive at a good chamber.
Can anyone tell me what national matches were won with the 38-70 and if they are so good, why are they for sale?
Sometimes folks just get tired of doing something and put their stuff up for sale, and go on to other things.
Long range rules, the rest drool.
last year silhouette nationals match shows 2-38/55 and 3-38/50 in iron sight and 1-38/55 plus 5-38/50 in scope class and no more 38cal. Only small cal that I remember doing well was a 35/40 of Steve Baldwins and he always seems to shoot well. Most was 56-45/70 and 28-40/65 in iron sight class.
Rick Moritz has been shooting some good scores in sillouette and bptr with a 38-70 some odd off and on for several years.
Long range rules, the rest drool.
I think this thread may be a little crossed up. The 38 cal DT was working with was the 38-72 I believe.
It uses 405 Win brass. The 38-70 is a completely different animal.
EDG
Dan has worked with both the .38-70 and the .38-72.
Chris.
I recall, as a kid, an auction in my home town. In one of the closets of the house where the auction was being held, stood a Winchester levergun with a full-length octagon barrel. I was pretty excited about bidding on it when it came up for sale. It looked like an old 30-30, and I needed a deer rifle. When I picked it up to look it over, I noticed the caliber on the barrel. 38-70! What the heck??? I realized that the old general store down the street didn't carry ammo in that caliber--in fact, I'd never heard of it. I never did bother to bid, and later I found out someone bought that old gun for about 20 bucks. Many, many years later, I did a little research and found that Winchester made a few model 86's in that caliber.
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