Originally Posted by
koger
I limbered up some funds by selling a .44 mag revolver I never shot, in anticipation of bidding on these in a local auction. Both are 1867 Danish 11.5's that somtime in their lifetime had their chambers lengthened to 45/70, they are usually 1/10 of an inch shorter, a 405 gr 45/70 plopped in all the way. One is just bare metal, but no rust or pitting. The other one has a little blue left on the barrel, but the case colors on the reciever are about 70% or so, blue and grey. Both are full military dress, with all the wood, bands and cleaning rods. A previous owner had replaced the front sight, with lyman small brass beaded front sight, and had worked on the folded down fixed sight, with both rifles having a V rear sight pic, with plenty of room for the tiny bead. Both have 36" barrels and the bores are pristine, not a pit one, bright and shiny from one end to the other, and the rifles still have sharp squared off shoulders. I could not beleive the condition of the bores, from rifles of this age, and coming from The black powder era. I sat down at my bench and got some 405 gr 45/70 cast loads, with a .460 diameter slug, lubed with alox and loaded with Unique to velocity's made for these type rifles. They were slightly high at 30 yds, but centered. I decided to go to 100 yds on my black painted 16" x22" I beam target and holding dead center, hit about 2"above where I was aiming. I then moved over to my 4x6" clanger at 100yds, and holding on the bottom, put 3 in the top 3" in a nice group. I then tried the other rifle, same deal. Both had good triggers, about # 3.5 or so. The best part of the whole deal is that I bought them cheap, because they had been listed as muzzleloaders because they had ramrods underneath the forearm. I sent TBG some pics to post on this when he gets around to it. Just thought I would share.