Dave,

Should Bill in Oregon not be interested, I would be. Although heaven knows I don't need another project.

Regards,

Michael

Dutchman
If nobody else is interested, I am. Please PM details and price as always a pic would help. I am a big fan of rollers and  have a 12mm and a model 33 in Swedish rifles.

Thanks Tom Meyer

Here is a link to a Gunbroker auction for a roller in 50-110.

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No interest in the rifle,  just read the thread and thought I'd pass it along.

Rick

The thread with the blown up RB action is a good read.

With the chambering that the blown up gun was in (.450 x 1.5") it is likely that the loads were to a pressure that the action was never expected to see. Esp. if there was a screwup on the part of the loader!

There is a really good write-up on the 8x58R loads, with a bunch of info from the Norma Tech department here at (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

Among the other details, is that he RB loads were less than the Krag loads. This is worth knowing!

Cheers
  Trev

Well, I managed to get a very nice Carl Gustav roller built in 1875 and rebuilt for the 8X58 in 1893m with all parts re-serialed. The bore is shot, thank gosh, so I have no pangs of conscience about having the Green Mountain .50 octagon tube fitted and chambered to .50 2 1/2. Dave Higgenbotham e-mailed me that the cartridge should fit fine with just a bit off the hammer nose. I'll probably use plain Treebone wood, and fit a Remington "Rough and Ready rear and copper penny front, and have a good, plain BPC workhorse. I'm not terribly interested in shooting anything but BP and soft lead in an older roller, so will not fret too much about safety issues.
By the way, I am not one to place undue faith in Swedish steel. There was a photo some years back in either Handloader or Rifle of a pile of metal fragments. The one diagnostic piece was the upright  checkered cocking piece on a Model 94/96 Swedish Mauser.

Re: Swedish Steel and undue faith.

Swedish steel is well regarded in the time-frame under discussion..
But it is/was still late 19th and early 20th century tech.

You can blow anything up if you try hard enough.

Still, with that in mind, IF all other factors are equal (and hey, when are they, really?), the Swedish steel will be higher quality.

Paul F.

Trev: You simply exchange half a copper penny for the blade in a front sight. Some file the edge that faces your eye when sighting the rifle perpendicular. The copper handles light well and is supposed to be easier to pick up, especially against game, than blued steel. There ahs been considerable discussion of the penny sight on the Shiloh Sharps rifle forum.