Found this at an otherwise uninspiring Gun Show this weekend.  As Winston Churchill famously said, "Nevah give up!"


At an Olde-Tyme affordable price, too, complete with #3 barrel with rusty bore, buckhorn rear sight and the remains of a Beech front sight.

Last pic is my parts accumulation.  Fortunately, it looks like all I need to make is the Knockoff and a couple pins.  Been there, done that.

Awesome, kids today just walk on by!

Here in Australia that one would would be considered to be in good condition! 

Spud

I "think" you could have it rebored and chambered to 40 Maynard (30-40 krag blown out straight) for less than $300.  Might make a good choice.....

It has the extra dovetail for the flat spring pad.  My lever is for a coil spring and I’ll have to weld a projection on the front and grind it down.  Ditto for the hammer.

I’d rather do mods like those to the small parts than drill the receiver for that plunger and spring.  I like the flat spring action better anyway; it’s “snappy,” whereas the few coil spring versions I’ve encountered are kind of “squishy.”  Necessary if you have a takedown, but pointless otherwise.  And a PIA to get back together.

There’s a fair amount of pitting on the outside of the barrel towards the muzzle that will require a lot of draw filing.  I saw somebody’s effort to turn an octagon Winchester barrel to half-round, and it was not a success.  Bought it for $5, turned it to proper proportion smaller taper diameters, milled it properly to half-octagon, and fitted it to a Stevens action, since the spring dovetail was gone by then.  So I doubt that turning the pitted section round would work.

Some sort of rebore or reline to .40 caliber might be nice.  It’ll be a while, though, before that stormy night with the lightning flashes when I shout, “It’s alive, Igor!  It’s alive!!” 

Looks like a nice project! I used to routinely reline sewer pipe bores after failed attempts to scrub/clean them out. Then one day it occurred to me, why not try electrolysis first? After all it works great freeing up and removing rust on steam engine parts. So I took a 3ft piece of 6” pvc capped one end. Took 3ft long 3” pvc drilled a series of 5/8” holes thru side from one end to the other. Wired up barrel and hung it in 3” pipe, set pipe inside 6” pipe. Wired up anodes and hung in space between pipes. Stand it up vertically and fill with washing soda electrolyte, hook up battery charger. Check frequently and in a couple of days you will truly know if your bore is salvageable or not! I am two for two now what looked like hopeless bores actually turned out real nice, a 32-20 H&A & 22 side swing little sure shot. The 22 showed no visible rifling after repeated scrubbing and I almost gave up. Electrolysis gently removed scale filling the grooves, revealing beautiful sharp unworn rifling. There’s moderate pitting left, but the bore is clean and shiney and it shoots great. Same with H&A. Not saying you will have same results. But it may be worth trying first?

Blessed are those that can still take on additional projects!!
(Great Find!)

Hey, B-R, isn’t it about time for a progress report?  Or am I the not the only one who proceeds at the pace of a glacier?   
Froggie