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blackpowder Junior Member Offline Posts: 87 Location: Blooming Valley PA Joined: Jul 20^th, 2018	new to me Dec 15^th, 2018 at 8:17pm	Print Post
	new to me high wall in 32-40, made in 1886. real nice bore and overall a good shooting and hunting rifle.


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3537 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: new to me Reply #1 - Dec 15^th, 2018 at 8:43pm	Print Post
	That nice rifle and an added tang sight, you'll be set for a great time. Pretty good outfit, it looks like.


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: new to me Reply #2 - Dec 15^th, 2018 at 9:17pm	Print Post
	Appears to be very clean, well taken care of and the fit of the butt stock to action appears to be very nice and having no cracks congratulations and a very charming rifle indeed. JLouis

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7245 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: new to me Reply #3 - Dec 15^th, 2018 at 10:21pm	Print Post
	Am I seeing a SST also? Really nice. Frank

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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: new to me Reply #4 - Dec 15^th, 2018 at 10:44pm	Print Post
	Clean, solid, not abused, well-sighted - a nice everyday huntin' gun for just about any mid-sized game. And I, too, think I see a SST screw peeking out in the first photo. Bill Lawrence


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: new to me Reply #5 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 9:19am	Print Post
	frnkeore wrote on Dec 15^th, 2018 at 10:21pm: Am I seeing a SST also? Can't be anything else--unusual on a plain-Jane hunting rifle.


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blackpowder Junior Member Offline Posts: 87 Location: Blooming Valley PA Joined: Jul 20^th, 2018	Re: new to me Reply #6 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 10:28am	Print Post
	yes it does have a SST. it came from the factory that way. I have the build sheet from Cody and the gun is as it was from the factory in 1886.


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: new to me Reply #7 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 11:16am	Print Post
	blackpowder wrote on Dec 16^th, 2018 at 10:28am: yes it does have a SST. it came from the factory that way. I have the build sheet from Cody and the gun is as it was from the factory in 1886. Interesting that yours, 2nd yr of production, has the round top receiver, while one of mine built several years later has the supposedly earlier octagonal top--just another of the thousands of examples of the way big factories sometimes mixed up old & new parts when putting a gun together.


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blackpowder Junior Member Offline Posts: 87 Location: Blooming Valley PA Joined: Jul 20^th, 2018	Re: new to me Reply #8 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 12:15pm	Print Post
	same with some of the old muzzle loaders, how they mixed and matched parts. everything got used back in the "old days". nothing got thrown away, it got used instead. this is another nice (to me) rifle i picked up about 2 months ago. a low wall in 25-20 SS. its all oiriginal and in good shooting condition. hope i am not boring everyone


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: new to me Reply #9 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 12:38pm	Print Post
	Nice and not boring at all.

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: new to me Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 1:02pm	Print Post
	Charming

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 15994 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: new to me Reply #11 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 5:11pm	Print Post
	And another nice one with SST too!

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DWT1885 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 394 Location: New Jersey Joined: Nov 25^th, 2010	Re: new to me Reply #12 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 5:40pm	Print Post
	Nice 1885's. Not boring at all. Could look at 1885's all day long. My favorite rifle. If you are looking for a tang sight for the high wall, keep checking e-bay. They do show up once in awhile. Dale.

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blackpowder Junior Member Offline Posts: 87 Location: Blooming Valley PA Joined: Jul 20^th, 2018	Re: new to me Reply #13 - Dec 16^th, 2018 at 7:17pm	Print Post
	probably no tang sight on the 32-40. it will be my primary deer rifle and I hunt mostly in the woods. if I will be hunting the farm with fields, I will use the 40-70 Ballard with the tang sight. I have a Baldwin tang sight here for the 25-20 for woodchucks this fall, just haven't put it on yet.


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CptCurl Full Member Offline Posts: 191 Location: Botetourt County, Virginia Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2017	Re: new to me Reply #14 - Dec 17^th, 2018 at 5:00pm	Print Post
	Very nice rifle! What loads do you plan to use in it? Curl


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