After helping a friend dispose of her uncle's estate I was left with two 20mm ammo cans of .45 ACP handloads.  I have no idea what's in them, or how uniformly they're loaded, so I needed some way to salvage the cases other than a bullet puller.  A friend had a 7mm Mauser RB for sale and another friend, who has built a number of bolt action .45 ACP rifles, suggested that it would make a perfect .45 ACP singleshot - no extractor work required.

Green Mountain barrel, wood and Gemmer buttplate from Treebone, metal and wood work by Doug Knoell, rust blue by Jerry Vanwey, Shiloh full buckhorn rear sight, C. Sharps front sight.

It's lot of fun to shoot and I don't have any trouble finding people who are willing to use it to help me "unload" those 45s.

       I have a 45acp bolt action that I built on a beat-up Mauser.  It's enormously fun to shoot.  There's no recoil at all, and it's as quiet as a 22 long rifle.  It's fun for informal shooting, especially with ladies, kids, or people that are not used to firearms, because it is so forgiving.  I've also used it to hunt varmints at close range with good results.  With cast bullets and hand loads it is very inexpensive to shoot.  At the range it prints a 1.5" group at 50 yards with a 4x scope.
          Your rolling block looks great, and I'm sure that you'll get a lot of enjoyment from it.  I can see a problem with the idea of unloading the 45's for the cases though.  Your rifle is probably going to be so much fun that you'll just end up reloading those cases for it again and again. 

JS47 wrote on Apr 5^th, 2015 at 9:15pm:


Already have one (thankfully!)