When I say unshootable I mean they'l wallop the snot out of you.  You'l feel 11 pounds out of a 45-90 with a 500 grn pill, 6-700 grains out of an 11 pound 50-140 will do more then massage your cheek bone.  Just because they have long range sights on them does not make them long range guns.  I suggest you take a look at the specs of the big black powder cartridge rifles and see how much they weighed.

Gunbroker usually has 45-120s with snazy steel crescent buttplates, some are gorgeous.  But they're eather to light or the buttplate cut the last owner to peices and he ends up selling it for a pittance.  At least you can sit down and put a box of shells through the Wesson, not gonna happen with that Borchardt.  If you got a Ferrari you should be able to drive it, some of those rifles would be a unpleasant to shoot.  Thats likely the reason why its listed in "like new condition".

Not blaming anyone, I like the Wesson! frankly I think theres other guns on that site that are alot worse then that Wesson.  In embellishment, form and function.

That is one heck of a nice Borchardt.  If I could afford it, I couldn't shoot it, er, if I could afford it I could afford to have the barrel changed. What a waste.

    Joe. 

Here is the best #1 Mid Range I've seen, mine of course. 

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boats wrote on Feb 12^th, 2014 at 4:31pm:

Searching around for information on the Earle Wesson, I came across this thread a few years late. Still, I have to add my two cents to the above comment.

I'm one of those whose "own" is the opposite way. I think it admirable to chamber an older design in a newer type of cartridge. I greatly prefer smokeless and jacketed bullets, and I think it a fine honor to the designers of those older single shots to bring their work right into the 21st century. I think the .30-30 was an excellent choice for the rifle in question. Fill it up with high BC spitzers and enjoy the great reduction in wind drift!

Steve Earls actions are not originals but newly manufactured and I agree to them being used anyway one see's fit. I would like to see it being used for one's personal pleasure or for putting meat on the table for the family rather than one using a modern bolt action rifle with a sythetic stock. It's more sporting to give the game being hunted a fair opportunity to live rather than taking away that fair advantage. It's also more persoanly satisfying to know you only have one shot and possibly not any more.

JLouis

Rare to see a link between money and taste.  It's all dolled up with all sorts of frill to lure the buyer with cash to burn.

My eye would go to a well done reproduction of Original.

Boats

the Earle/Wesson Long-Range Rifle that Steve Durren & Friends put together some years back as one of the earlier ASSRA "Raffle-rifles" was  one of the finest, most elegant, (my opinion of course) modern single shots produced  It had the regular tang sight setup but also a separate base on the heel of the stock for the back-position used in long range shooting.  It was the cover feature on one of the ASSRA Journals

There are lots of examples of good nickel plating to be found. Check out the
plated areas of old wood stoves. Restoring one includes finding a plater doing
it the old way. 

If one wants modern durability go to nitriding. I wonder if there is a nitride surface treatment that might emulate a french grey. 

An Earle that was fully CC might be very attractive but not so authentic. Darned 
can't win them all.  

or ... cast in manganese bronze for appropriate cartridges.