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Reply #15 - Mar 11th, 2017 at 9:33am
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No, you're not the only RB fan here! I am a fan of the Sporting Rifles in all sorts of models. Never been a military collector, so have no interest in them other than what I might use to build up a Sporting Rifle. Have a military project here now that will be a pistol gripped .40-65 with 34" Creedmoor barrel.
  
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Reply #16 - Aug 26th, 2017 at 9:15pm
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So, here are a few of mine. This one is a 45-70 engraved by Ken Hurst.
  
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Reply #17 - Aug 26th, 2017 at 9:17pm
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This is a 45-90 engraved by Ken Burkow. Waiting on final finish.
  
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Reply #18 - Aug 26th, 2017 at 9:18pm
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This is an original Remington Muskatoon in 43 Turkish (same as 45 Peabody What Cheer?) Rarer than hens teeth!!!
  
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Reply #19 - Aug 26th, 2017 at 9:20pm
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A modified Remington sporter in 40-70 Sharps Straight. Ya gotta love them rollers, eh Westerner? I'm always looking for more.
  
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Reply #20 - Aug 26th, 2017 at 9:43pm
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Happy to see all these beautiful rollers.  I've got a couple that are shooters and got two roller projects going.   

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Reply #21 - Aug 27th, 2017 at 1:31am
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I am going to try again hopefully with the smaller size this time.  This is a swedish rolling block I built in 40-70 SBN
  
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Reply #22 - Aug 27th, 2017 at 9:37am
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I picked up two more Remington Sporting rifles in Denver in May at the CGCA show. One is a very early round top from around 1870-71 with full octagon barrel in .44 Long CF, and the early deep crescent buttplate. The other is a later Sporting Rifle with half octagon barrel in .40-50 SBN. 
Guess I need to take some pictures and add them to this thread.
  
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Reply #23 - Aug 27th, 2017 at 4:31pm
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My Creedmoor in 44-77S. I have it shooting the steel swingers out to 300 yards so far with breech seated pp bullets.
  
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Reply #24 - Aug 27th, 2017 at 5:21pm
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Oh so sweet!! And original to boot?

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Reply #25 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 7:48am
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Very nice indeed.
  
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Reply #26 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 10:18am
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That is stunning.  My buddy has an original creed more but with a full octagon barrel in 44-100.  It has had a sight attached to the butt stock but now it just has the tang sight.  The serial number is Custers Creedmore + 1.  I would love to know who owned and shot these rifles.  They were very expensive guns at the time and very few were made.  What amazes me about my friends is how light it is for having a 34" barrel and the balance is perfect.
  
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Reply #27 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 4:00pm
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Rex N wrote on Aug 28th, 2017 at 10:18am:
That is stunning.  My buddy has an original creed more but with a full octagon barrel in 44-100.  It has had a sight attached to the butt stock but now it just has the tang sight.  The serial number is Custers Creedmore + 1.  I would love to know who owned and shot these rifles.  They were very expensive guns at the time and very few were made.  What amazes me about my friends is how light it is for having a 34" barrel and the balance is perfect.


Creedmoor rifles had to stay under the maximum 10 lb. limit. All that I've seen were half octagon, or almost full round, as a full octagon exceeded the 10 lb. limit. The barrel would have to be even smaller diameter than a standard Creedmoor to be full octagon and under 10 lbs.
  
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Reply #28 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 4:39pm
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Yes, mine is original. It weighs 10 pounds exactly on my postal scale. I got this one because it was in good enough shape to shoot as well as to look at. It is not all dinged up like some of them and the reddish wood color is beautiful - I will never refinish or change it other than clean it after shooting it. It shoots just fine; there are no pits or rough spots and the bore is like a mirror. The only thing I did was to have Distant Thunder make me a reproduction front sight insert so I can shoot with the insert I like and also not worry about losing the original insert. My wife was remarking how tiny the numbers are on the vernier tang slide - much smaller than on any of the modern reproductions. They all must have had extraordinary eyesight then. This is very addicting; to be able shoot an original with the original BP and pp bullet configuration used in the competitions back in the day.
  
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Reply #29 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 6:44pm
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Nice rifle Fogman.  Have you shot it at 1,000 yards?
  
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