My 1886 Winchester 40-82 has a rough nasty looking bore. Has anyone had one re-bored and re-chambered to 45-70? If so who would you recommend?
My 1886 Winchester 40-82 has a rough nasty looking bore. Has anyone had one re-bored and re-chambered to 45-70? If so who would you recommend?
I would call JES. I believe in Oregon. http://35caliber.com
Reboring is his specialty
He did a 308 to 358 for me and if shoots wonderfully.
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Isn't the .40-82 made on the 2.4" case like the .45-90?
I don't know if that would make any difference in the action handling the .45-70 or not. I'd try cycling a dummy round first.
Otherwise, it sounds viable to me.
Robert
You might consider having it sleeved back to original, unless you really want a 45/70.
I'd sleeve it back to 40 82. I have one and it's an excellent shooter.
I would send it to JES OR Bobby Hoyt. They have both done excellent work on my rifles.
If you are going to make a hole in something. MAKE IT A BIG ONE!
There is a 336 .30-30 with absolutely trashed bore in a shop near me. I'm going to see if I can get it cheap to become a .38-55.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
Have you shot it? I have a 32-40 Stevens with a sewer pipe bore. With an oversized bullets, gas checked, black powder it will shoot about 1 MOA at 100 all day. I also have a Remington Hepburn in 45-70 about the same. I have no doubt I could hit a white tail at 200 plus yards in the ribs and kill it. I just don't see the rebore on those guns. Have an old ratty Win 94 with bad chamber in 30-30. It got a 32 Special rebored to 38-55. I have no regrets. Enjoy
Probably good advice to shoot it before getting radical. Agree have a Stevens Favorite.22 w nasty looking bore that shoots better than I can hold it.
Rockingkj, if it were me, i would load up some PC'd rounds (20-25rds.) and try it 1st., might be surprised, or sell it and pick up a 45-70
A 40-82 just sounds cool.
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It’s still a work in progress. Bought it as a parts gun. All there but butt stock and fore end when I get that fixed and re-assembled will try and shoot it.
40-82 is a wonderful cartridge, loads easy, feeds like a dream, a little less recoil than a 45-70. It does use a 2.4" case, but 45 years ago I used 2.1" 45-70 cases, and 41 Mag pistol bullets!
Doesn't John Taylor reline them?
Hey Rockingkj, in yours a rd. or oct. barrel, and how long??
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Yup you make 40-82WCF from 45-2.4. I built a Remington Roller in 40-82WCF and eventually found a Winchester 86 in the same. Winchester has a 30" octagon barrel. It has trouble cycling rounds from the magazine. The bore likes a .409 bullet I needed to neck turn some brass so cartridges would chamber. It's an interesting cartridge to play with.
Bill
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