Gard72977 wrote on Jan 12
th, 2022 at 11:58am:
Lead Pot- Thats a beatiful rifle. Post a pic of the whole gun and give some details.
Wyoming Armory is doing the color case hardening.
My 22lr barrel will be Bartlein.
Gard
It's hard to get the whole rifle in the frame.
This rifle has a 30" 1/2 round I think a GM #3 and the rifle came in at 10#4oz.
I had it chambered in the .38-50 Rem Hepburn.
I'm not too keen on the dark finish on the wood, I like the lighter wood but I like the rifle.
The temperature was 30º so I took 53 rounds and shot them on my range that is only 135 yards but the cases loaded were just shot once with cornmeal blanks blowing the neck and shoulders out and reloaded with the old Goex Express 60 grains of 3F black powder with a PP bullet.
After getting the scope on paper at 135 yards I shot the two paster. 8 on the small and around 30-33 on the large paster. It really shot very well for just blowing the cases out and trimmed and reloaded. If I would rate this rifle between 1 and 10 I would give it a 10 plus for it's first showing.
The cases were a tight fit, I sure could have used Glenns case seater I ordered from him
to get the breach closed on most of the rounds. I had to use a hand pusher for all but a couple. The head space for this Winchester brass might be a little snug but extracting the fired cases did not stick. I will measure the heads when I get the cases cleaned.
Gard, I will have Dan build a .22 when my coffee can gets resupplied with change
I like your wood when I saw it.