You’re going to have a lot of fun with that rifle. If the action is slightly loose file a little off the non-angled surface of the barrel catch, allowing the catch to sit deeper into the barrel. I’ve done this on several Tip-Up’s with good results. I also found that a very light tap with a soft copper bar on the catch prior to shooting, improved groups. This is assuming that it still sits proud of the frame. That rifle is just begging for a tang sight.

Hi, I don't want to drift this thread, but you guys seem to be the ones to ask. I just got my 1st Tip Up and it has the plain notch sight. Is there an appropriate better barrel sight available, that's a little better? That's a nice looking one,RA.

OK, finally a bit of an update.  Been stuck upstairs with bad Sciatica and hobbling around on crutches on bad days and a cane on good days.  Unfortunately there are 2 sets of stairs to get down to my gun / reloading shop, but today I hobbled down to the shop with my cane and puttered around a bit to break the monotony of being cooped up in the house for so long.  I tried a shortened .303 British case in the Tip Up chamber and it's not even close ... WAY too big.  Hmmm ... tried a .30-30 Winchester case and it goes about 1/2 way in and then once again it's too large to chamber fully.  Hmmm ... tried one of the original cases from my Maynard in .32-35 Stevens and Voila!  It fits perfectly and the action closes, although the rim looks to be a bit undersized.  (Still enough to catch the extractor though.)  It's not .32-35 Stevens though since the bore is much larger.  Dug into my reference books and it's now looking like this rifle is actually chambered for the scarcer .38-35 Stevens cartridge rather than the larger .38-45 as the seller indicated.  I should be able to "massage" some .30-30 brass down to .403" at the base and shorten it and then fire-form to make some "shooter" brass.  When I'm feeling a bit more energetic I'll get at it ...

I have a set of dies for my .32-35 Stevens Maynard and will see if I can reduce the base diameter of .30-30 donor case down to .403".  Then I can fire-form them in the Tip Up.  I need to make some "shooter" cases for the .32-35 Maynard anyway.  If the dies won't take the base down small enough then I have a friend with a lathe and we can turn some brass down at the bases instead.

Projects ... too many projects and not enough time and energy to get to them all!

Was in my gun / reloading shop yesterday and ran two .30-30 test cases into my .32-35 Stevens Maynard sizer die.  Used lots of Imperial sizing wax and ran the cases about 1/3 of the way into the die, then 2/3's, then all the way down to the shell holder.  Took a bit of "grunt", but I used my Rockchucker to do the work and they came down at the base enough that they will chamber 95% of the way in both my 1882 Maynard in .32-35 Stevens Maynard and in my large frame Stevens Tip Up rifle in .38-35 Stevens.  Can't get them to size right down to the rim with the height of the shell holder and so now have 2 "belted" .30-30 cases, so I'll either have to turn off the "belt" or use an arbor press to push the cases all the way flush into the sizing die right up to the rim and then press them out again.

Projects ... so many projects ...