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blackpowder
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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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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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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.
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Am I seeing a SST also?
Really nice.
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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.
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frnkeore wrote
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Am I seeing a SST also?
Can't be anything else--unusual on a plain-Jane hunting rifle.
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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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blackpowder wrote
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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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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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Nice and not boring at all.
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Charming
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And another nice one with SST too!
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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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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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Very nice rifle! What loads do you plan to use in it?
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I am a black powder guy so that's the route I will be going. I just got some 165 gr. .321 bullets and 40 loaded rounds today and will start with that and see where it goes. the 25-20 I shoot both black and smokeless in it mainly because it is a favorite for others to shoot and the smokeless are less work. but for hunting, nothing but black powder. I would like to find some 32-40 stamped brass.
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DWT1885 wrote
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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.
you talked me into Dale, i have one on the way
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That's good. Hope you like it. You did get the one marked with an "S" ? Dale.
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Although you might not want it for hunting, the Saeco #632 165gr bullet will probably work quite well in that rifle. I have an original in .32-40 that I shoot with that bullet. Breech seated with a CPA plugged cartridge case as it seats quite easily and shoots well with a case full of FFg or even Fg. I once thoroughly embarrassed a guy with a modern scoped rifle who thought his would do better offhand at 200m.
You might be able to shoot that one as fixed ammo, but only the base band would likely be in the case.
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DWT1885 wrote
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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.
will try it out tomorrw
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Hey blackpowder, sent you a PM. Dale.
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A nice rifle, made better. Good luck shooting that beauty.
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got some shooting in today. I need a front sight that I can see, really having trouble with this one. paper was 5 shots at 40 yards, blow tube between shots. average fps was 1484. the "up and down" in the group is me with this front sight. 5 shots at steel at 140 yards, the orange is about 5" across. I really like the tang sight and I am happy with this load combo until I get a front sight. once that happens, I think the groups will close right up.
How do you make the pictures smaller?
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