I found a supposedly unfired Argentine rolling block in 43 Spanish off of a guy I have bought several firearms off of in the past and he was honest about this one as well. Before I bought it, I found a guy who had 100 rds of Virgin Jamison Brass for the caliber at a decent price,$3.00 per case. I bought the brass, lee dies and the Lyman 370 gr mold then bought the rifle for a little more than I had in the reloading stuff. I ruined 3 cases setting the dies, and then started expanding the wit a Lee Expanding die before seating the bullets. The rifle shot good, grouped well but about 9" high at 100 yds. I filed down the short front sight, it was .100 tall and cut a slot in the base. Then I took a old piece of hacksaw blade, and cut it out to where I guestimated it needed to be height wise and JB welded it in the slot let it sit overnight. This morning I shot at a target at 25 yd and It was dead center, 1" low, 3 shots landed in the same hole Then I went to 100 yds and it was hitting about 3.5" low. I went back into the shop, took a little off of the top, and the first shot landed dead center at 25 yds. I went to 100 yds and it hit 3 in a row on a 3" spinner with a 6 o'clock hold on the bottom edge of the spinner. I am a happy camper. The gun had been rearsenaled some time in the 1960's I guess, which involved knocking the rust off and hot bluing it. Blue is about 95% and the bore looked like it had never been fired, pristine in all aspects. I was using 31.9 gr of IMR 4198 which is a trapdoor load for the same bullets weight in 45/70, the data I was referred to using in about 7 different online articles and posts on here. The wood is in great shape, just rough finished and soaked in oil like most of the rollers were that were made for military's around the world. I have a decent collection of original rollers and a couple of new ones, just thought I would share.
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