38-50. Was the rifle designed to shoot grease groove bullets or paper patched?

Thank you, Tom. I have a friend who just won a very nice rifle from the RIA auction. He's tooling up to shoot paper patch through it and I've been trying to lean him toward grease groove bullets. My reasoning being that the lands are very narrow in his Rigby and they will wear from PP.  Probably not much. I shouldn't worry. Yes I shouldn't worry about it, none of my business anyway. But it'll bug me!

Fitz Slug the bore, the old guys didn't have micrometers. I would use .38-55 loading data. I trust this is a .38-50  Remington. I have never had one in that caliber and your rifle sounds way neat. I am finishing up on Stevens Pope books, probably another month to go. Then on to Jersey City. Do you have any data, guns etc. on Arthur Elliot? Worked with Pope and a couple of rifles he made are floating around. Most unmarked. Had a Hi-wall of his years ago. It got sold/traded.

Tom I have 3 A. Elliot Rifles. I met him at Walnut Hill in the Mid 1970s. He was in the company of Allen Winsor who had known him for many years. Two of my Rifles are .22LR Scheutzens and one is a 1903 Springfield in the "T" Model style, it is stamped on the left side of the barrel "A. Eliot, Boston 1930" It has been shot with a lot of Jacketed Ammo and used hard. But from the bench at 200 Yds with Lake City Match it held the "X' ring. so I have kept it, no need to sell. The .22s are a 
#6 1/2 Ballard that belonged to Allen Winsor and he had it restocked by Kirkwood
Brothers in Boston but in the classic 6 1/2 style maybe a copy. The other is a Hiwall that was my first Elliot. I shot it for many years in Gallery club matches.
I allways shot 3 offhands and some times actually made the Team. Both of these have the Ballard style two piece extractor. They are fitted so well that you cannot see them until you carry the lever full stroke and the extractor comes out. I probably went to his home about 6 or 7 times in the late 70s. I got the impression that his Wife  was not happy with shooters showing up. When he Passed she sent ALL of his shooting associated stuff to Pete Harvey down on the Cape. He was running a business rebuilding Machine Tools. But he still had a Long bed South Bend lathe and said he could still make a Barrel from scratch if he wanted. His personal .22 LR Scheutzen was as Popes, a very heavy Barrel and the stock was rough finished on the outside, I would say it weighed in at around 16 to 17 Lbs. He was not a big guy, modest stature.  He said he worked for Pope about two years and by then he was married and had one child, a Daughter. He said when he told pope he was going to have to leave as Pope did not pay enough, he said Pope understood and told him to use him for a reference. Arthur only had to apply to one place and when they contacted Pope he told them that Arthur was the best assitant he had ever found and they should hire him right 
away. And they did. Well thats about all I have for now Tom, Regards FITZ OLD TUCK.

Tipup, I believe that may be true. In conversations with Arthur in the short time I knew him he did say he liked making .22 Caliber rifle Barrels. And he did mention that when he made a .22 Rimfire in either Short or Long Rifle and he and Pope tested it and it stood out
that Pope did not hesitate to put his stamp on it. He did say that it was not a common procedure. FITZ, OLD TUCK.