Navy Arms longs did the same sort of split when fired in my 1915 Favorite. Not once but several rounds from the same box.
Navy Arms longs did the same sort of split when fired in my 1915 Favorite. Not once but several rounds from the same box.
Cognitive Dissident
Cool................
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
The lead is a .32 caliber 90gr heeled bullet from Old West Bullet Moulds loaded in an RCC .32 XL case. Unfortunately I think RCC has croaked. Primers are #1 ramset because I cannot find the #zeros anywhere. The .32 l and XL cases have been shot with squibs from #1 up to #4 but the higher number squibs splay out so badly they are a bother to remove and I don't want to waste a case. Lately I've been using the #1 squibs to light off a slightly compressed load of 3F black...great pop, smoke and smell and so far no case damage. We did find some pre-shot .32L rf brass I want to try with Prime All but have not had time to play 'guns' due to extensive building/roof damage by winter's high desert winds. The little #2 roller is a real treat, elegant.
EdZ
San Diego/Borrego Springs
Yeah, my bicycle rifle is not as elegant as a roller, but it has a charm of its own. It only takes .32 shorts so using the ramsets I have to breach seat the bullets, even round balls.
I am not having luck with prime-all in rimfire applications. I am going to try somemore with a different binder.
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
Brass casting! THAT I didn't know.
Cognitive Dissident
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
IMHO brass has too low a yield point for that application. I'll believe cast; forging dies would have cost a mint. But I'm thinking this explains why there are so few left. They got bent or broken too easily.
I read somewhere that these were called "Sunday guns". Because they were easily concealed, a young man could sneak out of town to hunt on Sunday, which was illegal in most settled areas. Still is in some places.
Phil
Cognitive Dissident
I always thought the "bike" rifles were really cool! Ya gotta figger....bicycle madness was in FULL swing in the '90s and rail could take you from in the city to village and country then back. I saw a neat holster/carrying pouch once for just that purpose, taking the pop-gun on a train ride ~8^) Oh, could your stock be bronze instead of brass?
EdZ
It could be bronze, it is plated so can't really say but it does not attract a magnet. I looked at it more closely since this discussion and it might not have been cast as one piece, where the two rods attach to the butt plate it might be a braze/weld joint but it is not obvious as it is nicely done and very clean joint.
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
I have this nice soft case for my double rifle. That rifle takes down very easily, has a spring loaded catch for the forearm and with the forearm off the barrels comes off when open the action. Then the forearm snaps back on the barrels. The case has a padded pocket for the barrels and a place for the butt stock/action. Makes for a handy package, case has a shoulder strap. It would be cool to have a similar soft case of the appropriate size for the bicycle rifle. I saw a picture of a rig like you describe but I don't know if the case had separate compartments. I guess if it did not have separate compartments, I could put a denim sock over the stock, basically a pant leg with a tie at each end to keep things from getting scratched. Really don't want to scratch the plating. On the double rifle the wood is so gorgeous that I would really hate to see it scratched.
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
For a short while Stevens sold a version of the Favorite that came with a canvas case designed to hang on a bicycle crossbar.
Cognitive Dissident
You don't see a lot of take down style guns being made anymore. It used to be a lot more popular. I guess, AR 15's are sort of take down able but I don't think that was the intent plus the upper on an AR is not that much shorter than the whole gun with the stock in the shortest position.
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |