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Stevens New Ideal (model 44) in .38-55 (Read 12670 times)

Frankford Full Member Offline Posts: 162 Location: Clint, TX Joined: Dec 20^th, 2012	Re: Stevens New Ideal (model 44) in .38-55 Reply #15 - Jun 8^th, 2014 at 3:10pm	Print Post
	From the seller : He used this for deer hunting. He liked to hunt with the old guns. The reserve is $750


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Joel Black Full Member Offline Posts: 165 Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2010	Re: Stevens New Ideal (model 44) in .38-55 Reply #16 - Jun 11^th, 2014 at 11:38am	Print Post
	I have shot a Model 44 38-55 for more than 50 years. It still is as tight as it was when I first bought it. I know in recent years it has become fashionable to denigrate 44s, but other than the Walnut Hill .22 Hornets, Stevens never chambered them for too much cartridge.


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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: Stevens New Ideal (model 44) in .38-55 Reply #17 - Jun 11^th, 2014 at 8:07pm	Print Post
	I am assuming that you are shooting black powder or black powder equivalent loads? I have a Walnut Hill in .22 Hornet and shoot it sparingly with low end smokeless loads. If they are in good condition and you don't get carried away with what you shoot in them they should be ok. The Hornets loosened up, they did not blow up to my knowledge.


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Joel Black Full Member Offline Posts: 165 Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2010	Re: Stevens New Ideal (model 44) in .38-55 Reply #18 - Jun 30^th, 2014 at 10:46pm	Print Post
	No, I have always used light smokeless loads in it.


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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4079 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens New Ideal (model 44) in .38-55 Reply #19 - Jul 1^st, 2014 at 4:32pm	Print Post
	With modest loads they must have been OK. If shuetzen men were anything like modern target shooters, they must have fired thousands of rounds a year through the .32-40 models with the side extractor. Now that I have two of them, I'm more convinced than ever that the old model breechblock is a forging. Much stronger than the hollowed-out casting that was introduced about 1901 or so.

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