Since there are so many Maynard treads on the forum, I thought I might post some photos of this unusual variation with light-colored wood and no checkering. I've had this rifle for over 30 years - from the days before Maynards were cool. The bore is perfect and glass-smooth - and shoots better than I can at 100-200 yds.  

.32-35 Maynard

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Originally a M-1873 - converted to the thin 1882 cartridge head by sleeving the action. 1882-type hammer installed at the same time.
 
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Barrel set back with the sleeve job to accomodate the thinner 1882 rim.

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Couple of photos of the reverse side:
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Pistol Grip inset is of darker wood for contrast:

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Buttstock and nickle-plated Swiss buttplate:

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Bob, that insert was glued in place. You remove the plug screw to access the main lower tang bolt. So far as I know, the Mass. Arms factory handled all Maynard #16 pistol grips this way - and I've examined a bunch of 'em.

Thanks for shearing the photos.Very nice rifle.

ron

This one still has the original finish on wood and metal - at least from the time of the factory conversion to the 1882-type cartridge. For some reason, the flaws don't show up in these photos - except for a couple of buggered screw heads. I coated the stock with wax to preserve the finish...perhaps giving the impression of a sanded glossy finish...that and the glare from the bright sun.

I don't shoot this rifle frequently, but take it out for a day of shooting ~once a year. Mould is Ideal #311157 which is simply stamped "32-35-165" - and is breech-seated enough to chamber the case filled with 2gr. SR-4759 and 34gr. FFG.

This is not quite a safe queen, but it is my nicest antique rifle. If it starts spitting rain, I'll run for the truck.

Beautiful rifle and thanks for sharing. Don't ever recall seeing anything that beautiful here at the shows in Louisiana. Frank

  Maynard rifles are not for everybody.  Don't feel bad that you're not among those of us who are able to look beyond the superficiality of the "outers" and see something of the inner soul.

   C.M.M.

I see this is a very old thread, but I'll send you a PM xtimberman ... I just bought what appears to be a very close "sister" to your Maynard!  An 1882 Model 16 with smooth (non-checkered) stocks in .32-35 ... with a perfect bore.  Not quite a pretty as yours, but lots of potential.  Came with some interesting accessories too.  A round "barrel" style cartridge "box" ... 46 rounds of brass and ammo ... and a stack of pre-cut patches.

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I'm tickled seeing that neat rifle. I've never even put a Maynard to my shoulder, but they fascinate me. The screws on that one are enough to make me cry- but not the same cry that other screws have made me cry. Thanks fer the treat. 

I'm going to pull down a few rounds of the old ammo that was included with the rifle to see what is loaded in them.  Likely will just be 35 or so grains of black powder with the card / cork retaining wad, but it will be interesting to find out.  I'll weigh the charges to see what they were shooting in it.  The bare lead bullet measures about .307" to .308" and slips right through the barrel without any friction.  The patched bullets measure about .317" to .318.  I tried an on hand Lyman 314299 sized to .311" and it was a very snug fit at the muzzle.  Haven't had a chance to slug the bore yet and see what it actually measures.  The windage screw for the front globe sight appears to be a fairly crude home-made replacement so I'll have to get a proper replacement made to make it serviceable before I can shoot it.  I unscrewed the eyecup, but the sight wouldn't move up and down for elevation so I didn't try to force it.  I need one of the resident Maynard "experts" to tell me if the screw on the off side of the adjuster needs to be slackened off first or if the mechanism should move with just the eyecup loosened off and it all just needs to be soaked with some solvent to undo years of hardened crud buildup?  I tried some on hand brass and the closest thing to the .402" nominal base size of the .32-35 was some S&B .22 Savage Hi Power brass I hand which measured at .412".  Much smaller to begin with than the .30-30, .25-35, or .32-40 I measured.  They were all from about .416" to .418" at the base ahead of the rim.  The HP brass will still need to be swaged down another 10 thousandths to fit the chamber.  It will take a bit of time and effort, but it will all come together in the end ...



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I've had a Maynard in the rack for years. Hadn't really paid too much attention to it. But this thread has got me looking again. It is straight gripped checkered, no fore wood, tang and beech front sight, with a spirit level where a rear sight would be. The tang sight is different than both here. It has a plated action and Swiss butt plate. Unsure of caliber, around .35 at a guess.

Where would be the best place to start looking to see exactly what I have.  Thanks

Reverend,
Thank you for resurrecting this thread, your Maynard while not as pristine it has some very unique touches.  I don't recall ever seeing a cartridge barrel as an accessory.  As much as I dislike working with wood, the pistol grip idea is something different and I see a rolling block in my future with that feature applied.   
The perch for the sight on the rear of the tang, while not uncommon, never caught my attention until recently - another item I'll add to the mix... and the sight, going to dabble with that design again.
I don't have a complete Maynard, but there's enough parts in my mess to assemble most of one, I may move that up the list a little ways.
Thanks,
Greg

For several years I kept looking at a Maynard at a local gun shop. It was tagged as a 32 rimfire but an inspection revealed to me that it was a 32-35. The tang sight was missing. It was on consignment and we could never get together on a price. Still would like to have a Maynard someday.

Thanks for that. Is it my imagination or does the hammer on mine have a different profile from the other rifles shown.

No problem ... and thanks to everyone for whatever helpful info can be gleaned from your comments.  I'll soak the rear sight with some penetrating oil / solvent and get it freed up again.  I'll need to find a decent quality machinist to replace the front sight windage screw.  We have a gun show coming up locally next weekend and I'm going to watch for an old, used .38 / .357 steel (non carbide) sizing die.  With luck a hobby machinist friend of mine can bore / ream / polish it out to about .402" so that I can use it to reduce the bases on some of these .22 Savage HP brass to try and make some shooter brass.  I have a friend in town who is a hobby "cooper" and I will show her that novel round "barrel" style cartridge box to see if she wants to try and duplicate it.  (She is also an avid black powder enthusiast and shoots muzzle-loaders and black powder cartridge guns so I think she'd find it an interesting project.)

Too many project guns and not enough time to play with them all!



GT wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2018 at 10:38am:

Well, since I've had the single shot rifle "itch" lately I couldn't help myself and will be "picking at the scab" again in a couple of days.

I'm so enthralled with this 1882 Maynard No. 16 I bought that I reached out to an old local shooting friend that I hadn't talked to in years.  I knew he had an 1873 Maynard in one of the thick rim .40 calibre cartridges and thought I'd touch base with him about it.  We had a great chat and to make a long story short he IS finally ready to sell it now and so he is getting together the gun and a bit of formed brass and some home made loading tools and then I'll go over for an in-person visit and will buy it from him.  I'll post some photos of it once I get it in my hot little hands ...

I'm heading out to an old shooting friend's place tomorrow afternoon to look over his 1873 Maynard in .40 calibre and a .22 BSA Martini.  Hopefully they will both come back home with me!

rustyrelx wrote on Jul 31^st, 2018 at 11:40am:


I made a new post with photos on the Ballard rather than add it to this older Maynard thread, but I'm buying an 1873 Maynard later today and I'll try to add photos of it to this thread sometime this evening.

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Ran a rod with a wet patch through the bore today ... it was just dusty from sitting for years.  It looks really good now ...

Oh, and the eyepiece on the tang sight is seized up tight so I sprayed it with some penetrating oil and will let it sit for a day or two and try it again.  (The rear tang sight on the 1882 model I bought previously is still soaking too ...)

Looks like you have found a nice one.regarding the duplex I start at 5% Imr 4227 and go up if it does not burn clean to the end of the barrel. yMMV. Thanks for taking the time to post good pics. I would defently slug the bore.

rodneys wrote on Aug 5^th, 2018 at 7:39pm:


OK, thanks for that ... I still have a bit of IMR4227 as well as some SR4759 and can try both.  I'll keep everyone posted on my progress with this rifle.

Well, I did it again.  I just bought another Maynard on an online auction site up here in Canada.  (That makes 3 in the past 2 months ...)  This one is a Model 1873 No. 10 Mid-Range Hunting and Target in .40-60 Maynard thick rim with a heavy round 32" barrel.  I absolutely stole it since it is missing it's tang sight and at some point someone has carved some funky "folk art" on the buttstock.  It has a few other "warts" too, but since I paid about 1/2 of what I was expecting to spend on it I'm more than happy.  These are the auction house photos.  I'll post some better photos when I get it in hand.

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Well, I just received the first 16 thick rim adaptors in the mail today for my .40-60 Maynards.  Hopefully I can get out and test fire a few rounds out of #1 gun soon.  (#2 gun in .40-60 is still in transit and hasn't arrived yet).

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Thanks for sending us photos of your much-loved #16 - and apologies for taking over a month to respond! I'm not on-line much these days.

Our two #16s with no checkering are the only two I've ever viewed. I've heard of a few others, but seen no photos. Yours is an 1882 model and mine is an 1873 sleeved and converted to an 1882 at the Mass. Arms factory. Their ease of take-down made so many of their owners have nice custom traveling cases built for their Maynard target rifles. I've seen all sorts and at every level of quality. Yours has a particularly nice one made for it. It tells me that the original owner of yours likely traveled quite a bit to shoot in target matches - and the amount of ordinary wear tells me he shot it a LOT! I see no careless abuse....just honest ordinary wear from decades of use. Thankfully the subsequent owners preserved the bore for you to enjoy. It's been my experience that no matter the external condition...a Maynard rifle with a perfect bore and chamber will shoot well and accurately with lightly-duplexed BP loads and the proper weight and size bullet. I've never shot pure smokeless in any Maynard - too afraid of a blow-out at the rim gap. I've never shot loaded cases in my .32-35 either - always breech-sheeting the bullet just deep enough to allow the fully-charged case to chamber behind it.

Under the barrel and between the lugs, mine has the matching SN stamped along with a "16". This does not ID the barrel as for a Model #16, but denotes a 1 turn in 16" rate of twist which stabilizes a nominal 165gr. bullet. Does your barrel have such a number stamped between the lugs? The PP bullets for your .32-35 seem "long" for the case in your photo.....but Mass. Arms would furnish anything to suit their customers. Are they close to 165gr.?

Berdan-primed or Boxer-primed cases? Heavy "everlasting"? I have a few original everlasting cases but ordered some CNC lathe-turned new ones from RMC when they were in business.

The windgage front sight looks like a Ballard sight mfg. by Bridgeport Tool for them. Was the base of the sight shimmed to fit the larger Maynard barrel cuts?

Is the SN really #210? If so...that is the lowest M-1882 SN I've seen.

Please let us know how it shoots!

John (xtimberman)

Keep us up on the other Maynards, too.

Maynard;

What a beautiful Maynard ... what calibre is it chambered for?

xtimberman, you needn't worry about blowing out the  case rim on a Maynard because it is exposed. Even the 1873 with about .135" out of the chamber should be safe with any normal load. For example the M98 Mauser has the head of the cartridge extending that far out of the rear of the chamber and they operate at much higher pressures. The 1903 Springfield extends even farther out of the chamber. You just don't see the back of the cartridge on those guns but they stick out unsupported except at the rear.

Most 1882 Maynards were made on surplus Civil War frames from guns repurchased from the Gov't and serial numbers are all over the place. You can't read a lot into serial numbers on the 1882 rifles.

I was hoping to test fire the .22 Long Maynard today, but after driving all the way up to our local range I found that there was thick fog and off and on rain.  Our club won't allow shooting when fog obscures the range since there could be unseen wildlife (especially deer) out behind our shorter range target frames, so no luck today.  I'll have to see what the weather does this coming week and try again ...

OK, will do.  I have lots of shorts as well as a fairly good supply of longs.  The bore is a bit scruffy (dark and a bit rough), so I'd planned to try something with it that I did with an old Remington Gallery model pump in .22 Short I had that was "scruffy" too.  I smeared a light coating of JB Bore Paste on each individual bullet and then "fire lapped" it with about 20 / 25 rounds.  It improved the way the barrel looked and shot fairly substantially.  If worse comes to worse this Maynard might need a reline, but I'll see how it shoots first.  (... and I'm honestly not expecting "match" accuracy ...)

Lol, some of the cases look as old as the rifle.

Great day up at the range today fire-forming brass for three of my old single shots.  Formed some .40-60 Maynard thick rim for my 1873 Maynard Model 16 using the adaptor spacers pressed onto some .303 British cases.  They fit the chamber perfectly and blew out perfectly.  Now I just need to cast some more .40 bullets to test ...

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I would believe his rifle was shipped as a #14. It has the extra screw hole in the upper tang for the thumb piece along with the long range rear sight. If the barrel with it is serial numbered to the frame it would have been an extra barrel and probably would have the #2 stamped somewhere between the lugs. It's anybody's guess what happened to the 44-100 barrel if it was sold with one. It may have been sold as is. One thing I've learned is to never be surprised about anything odd about a Maynard.