So if you already have WAY too many project guns that you still need to work up loads for, what do you do?  Why, buy another rifle of course!

This one is a Stevens 44 with a 26" half round / half octagon barrel in .25-20SS.  Very good bore with 6 o'clock extractor.  I suspect that it's a fairly late gun with a serial number in the high 61,000 range?  This rifle came with some more .25-20SS brass and a nice 3 die set of CH4D dies too, so between this rifle and the goodies I recently got for my 1882 Maynard chambered for the same calibre I should be OK to shoot them both for a little while.

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My Stevens 44 .25-20 SS - Do not think she made it outdoors much.

If you purchased it through the 1908 Sears catalogue you could order it with a Lyman sight and the front was the Stevens # 203 Rocky Mountain blade sight.

Reverend,
I do like your new project and I especially like that sight, or should I say I like how it sits on that rifle.  I'm not generally that fond of the Lyman configuration of tang sights but something about this is different.  I have that same rifle, same caliber, close to the same serial number I picked up from a member here a couple years ago - may have to think about trying my hand at a sight like that for it.  I have a hundred JBA cases for it that I haven't even finished firing the first time so I know what you mean about time and projects... Please give me a hint what you find shoots best in it...     Nice Nab!

Bill, doing a quick stroll through Stroebels book I didn't see anything that resembled it.
Greg

GT wrote on May 8^th, 2019 at 6:50pm:


I managed to scare up an original Winchester .25-20SS mould that throws a 77 grain plain base bullet and will try some of those first.  I have IMR4198, SR4759, IMR4227, and old Hercules 2400 that I can try initially and can dig deeper in my "stash" to see what other suitable powders I have.

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I'm just curious if anyone has tried loading .25-20SS with small pistol primers instead of small rifle primers?  After reading several articles on small pistol primers vs small rifle primers in the .22 Hornet I found in testing that the pistol primers did group better in those small capacity cases, so I'm wondering if it might do the same in these small volume .25-20SS cases too?

Hey Al, You sure have singleshotitis in a bad way. Or should I say in a good way. Maybe when Tom Rowe's new book on gunsights get's shipped it will have some info on this sjght.  Dale.

Al, 
In the past I was always referring to getting another single shot as a result of my addiction...  I was corrected the other day, it's only considered an addiction if one is trying to quit!   
You won't believe the burden that's been lifted from MY shoulders knowing this, how about you?   
BUT...
There's a quote I recall about addiction  - 
"Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside."   
Whether I had room in the safe or not I seem to feel this emptiness when I see a single shot I like...    Maybe I'm not out of the woods yet, I'll have to consult my support group in a couple of weeks.
Greg

Frank:

That was what everyone believes.
I cannot find the chart but someone measured the cup height dimensions of both rifle and pistol small primers of all the manufacturers and came up with a difference of .004".

Yes large rifle versus large pistol primers have more of a difference of about .008" but there is a difference between  cup heights of  small rifle and pistol primers - basically due to the .005" difference in the thickness of the primer wall.

Does that matter.
It was John Hutchinson's rifle that was purchased by Dick Spencer that had it's breech block pounded out and is now owned by Rob Pipke.

Dave