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Mal
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1885 Winchester .218 Bee.
Jul 31st, 2018 at 5:07am
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Had room for one more in my safe!! Looking forward to the challenge of .22 cast.

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Re: 1885 Winchester .218 Bee.
Reply #1 - Jul 31st, 2018 at 6:53am
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Nice, hope it shoots as good as it looks!
  
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Re: 1885 Winchester .218 Bee.
Reply #2 - Jul 31st, 2018 at 12:08pm
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Very nice ... (and it's an "Australian" model too I see) ...

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I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't quite reached my "Expiry" date yet ...
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Re: 1885 Winchester .218 Bee.
Reply #3 - Aug 1st, 2018 at 4:36am
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Hi Al,
        Yes it is an Aussie L/W ,has been rebarrelled with a heavy ex.22/303  low count barrel  1in 14 twist ,needs a new extractor I can do some load testing  using a hook to extract, should be fun!! 

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Reply #4 - Aug 2nd, 2018 at 10:25pm
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LOL ... the joke is on me!  I didn't notice that you actually WERE from "down under" ... I was actually kidding about the photo being posted upside down!

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Re: 1885 Winchester .218 Bee.
Reply #5 - Aug 3rd, 2018 at 1:40am
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Hi Al,
        Must be something to do with the hemisphere,pic came out his end right way up!! :   

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