It's a nice little CC DST highwall I bought from a friend a few years ago.  It has original sighting equipment including a windgage front sight.  The barrel marking are done as though it was going to have a scope mounted on it.  The barrel is a 30" #4.

I shot a few nice targets with it back when I used to shoot the local offhand matches on Sundays.

My only problem is that left the factory as a .38-55, but the barrel has been rebored and chambered as a long throated .45-70.  The bore is excellent.  I just don't need a long throated .45-70 offhand rifle .

More recently I've used it with a Crossno .22LR liner.  

Originally I was going to put a Ron Smith barrel on it and chamber it to .38-55 as it was originally made.  I don't know if I want to mess with it though.  

What would you do with it? 

Chris.

 

Chawk: +1!

Do the Ron Smith barrel but make it a .35 Remington rimmed.  Why? Because it's easy to make out of Krag or 303 Brit brass and it's different. Ron likes to do something different once in a while. 

Really neat rifle by the way. Drooling a little here. 

     Joe.

If it were mine, and everything was original except the rebore. I'd hunt with it as is. Nice looking rifle, and the rebore may trim a few ounces off the front end. If it got sent out, I'd send it for a reline more to take it back to a little bit like it was when it left the factory. Classic lines, if needed maybe rebarrel and save the original for who knows what in the future.

chawk wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2016 at 9:27pm:

What he said. Very nice rifle. Might go with a pistol-grip stock, but nothing else.

Am doing exactly that with my original Hepburn that started life as a 32-40. Lining it back to the original cartridge.

frnkeore wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 2:08am:

How did you contact Ron? I did not realize he made liners in anything other than .22.

I do like the RKS liner idea.  If I went with a new barrel I'd be really tempted to have the rest of the rifle restored.   Another thought I had last night was to find a good original #4 barrel in .38-55 or .32-40 and screw it on.  Part of the "problem" is that I already have a new .38 cal gain twist RKS barrel sitting in Steven Durren's shop.  That barrel is also a project waiting to happen.

I should probably just box it up and send it to you Jack.

Chris.

Yessir I will be there.  I didn't put that rifle on my U.S. gov't paperwork though so I will likely just bring my CPA and probably my old Ruger #1.

Chris.

I would sell it to someone who would appreciate it for what it is and use it. Then I would take the $$$ and get exactly what I wanted.