Hi again Littleman --
                              Glad you got your barrel removed without attempting to remove the front cross-pin to which the barrel front lug hooks onto.  I is very natural and common to look at the front cross pin and believe that it needs to unscrewed in order to remove the barrel.  They are very tight and I would not have anyone, including myself, try to remove mine, except for John Bly if he would even agree to remove it.

I would be interested is seeing a few photos of your '73 Maynard and was wondering how you would feel about posting them.  I would have to agree with you if you would prefer not to do that.  I was just wondering what model number your rifle is?

One of the first things I did when I bought my Maynard was to purchase a Maynard re-printed catalog from Cornell Publications to read and learn from.

I hope you'll keep us posted on how it shoots when your ready to do that.

Good luck,

C.M.M.

I had intended to get some pictures taken but haven't gotten it done.  I will do that this weekend.  I'll try to get them posted here, but if not I could e-mail them to you.   I really do appreciate your assistance.

roger

1873 Maynard 40-70 right side of breech piece;

  Another image of Roger's very fine rifle, which by the way has a 32 inch barrel length;

  Middle sight in a dove tail --

Thanks to all of you for your help, and especially to Creedmoormatch for posting the images for me.  I'll update after I've done some shooting.  Katie is a cutie.

Very nice rifle!!   

I believe that Mass. Arms would have referred to this one as a "Maynard Improved Mid Range Target and Hunting Rifle Mumber 10 - Model 1873". Other than the rear barrel sight, it much looks very much like they did when they left the factory!

Many of the Maynard .40-70s had a rifling twist that was slower than in their .40-60s and will shoot the lighter conical bullet very well - less recoil, too. Sometimes...the rate-of-twist is stamped under the barrel lug in front of the serial #. Have you measured the chamber length to be certain that it is a .40-70?

I can't see the rear of it, but that tang sight looks like the basic Maynard "elevating graduated peep sight" without an eyecup - which is proper for a #10. Does it have a setscrew to allow for slight windage adjustment of the sliding "peep"?

(What an impish-looking little pup, CMM!) 

yeah....that's the basic Maynard vernier "peep" sight - it never had an eyecup attached and is the correct rear sight for a #10.