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WTB 35-55 reamer
Sep 4th, 2024 at 12:58pm
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WTB 35-55 reamer thanks moodyholler
  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #1 - Sep 5th, 2024 at 11:56pm
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Hey James,
Which version of .38-55 reamer are you after - WCF or Ballard or ?
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #2 - Sep 6th, 2024 at 12:18am
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idjeffp wrote on Sep 5th, 2024 at 11:56pm:
Hey James,
Which version of .38-55 reamer are you after - WCF or Ballard or ?
Cheers,
Jeff P


Didn't know there was a difference? Unless you're talking the latest version that Winchester started using that's the same length as their .375 Win. chamber?

Here's one at Ebay on a "buy it now" sale:

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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #3 - Sep 6th, 2024 at 8:55am
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I think he is looking for a 35-55 reamer.
  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #4 - Sep 6th, 2024 at 12:07pm
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For those interested in the dimensions

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Old-Win wrote on Sep 6th, 2024 at 8:55am:
I think he is looking for a 35-55 reamer.

  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #5 - Sep 6th, 2024 at 1:23pm
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Never heard of a .35-55? Guess that's got to be a real oddball?
  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #6 - Sep 6th, 2024 at 1:52pm
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My apologies for mis-reading .35-55!
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #7 - Sep 6th, 2024 at 5:05pm
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IIRC...I believe the Maynard Rifle co. 
designed a number of the, by today's standards, "oddball" cartridges, 35-40 & the 35-55 being just two of them. 

I understand when Dan Theodore was leading the charge to get the NRA to approve the 35-40 for use in the BPCR discipline he was met with a lot of resistance.

Apparently both of these cartridges were designed and commercially available in 1882 albeit not in very successful numbers. I don't recall all the challenges and responses that went back and forth way back but I think, and someone please correct me if I am wrong, I think the 35-40 can be used in BPCR..?

I heard one of the reasons used by some contest directors to not permit, what they characterized as a 'mouse cartridge' was the lower "power factor."

Anyone remember...? Ferris..?
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Never heard of a .35-55? Guess that's got to be a real oddball?

  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #8 - Sep 7th, 2024 at 11:10am
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RJ-35-40 wrote on Sep 6th, 2024 at 5:05pm:
IIRC...I believe the Maynard Rifle co. 
designed a number of the, by today's standards, "oddball" cartridges, 35-40 & the 35-55 being just two of them. 

I understand when Dan Theodore was leading the charge to get the NRA to approve the 35-40 for use in the BPCR discipline he was met with a lot of resistance.

Apparently both of these cartridges were designed and commercially available in 1882 albeit not in very successful numbers. I don't recall all the challenges and responses that went back and forth way back but I think, and someone please correct me if I am wrong, I think the 35-40 can be used in BPCR..?

I heard one of the reasons used by some contest directors to not permit, what they characterized as a 'mouse cartridge' was the lower "power factor."

Anyone remember...? Ferris..?
marlinguy wrote on Sep 6th, 2024 at 1:23pm:
Never heard of a .35-55? Guess that's got to be a real oddball?



I have a .35-40 Darr barreled Rolling Block setup for benchrest and breech seated ammo. It is the old Maynard chamber, and it took some work to make .32-40 cases fit the chamber. Fortunately it being a breech seater it doesn't need a bunch of brass made for it.
  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #9 - Sep 7th, 2024 at 12:07pm
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I have a 35-30 Maynard PT&G reamer
I think I have a print 
if interested I'll try to find it
  
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Re: WTB 35-55 reamer
Reply #10 - Sep 8th, 2024 at 9:47am
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Gunsmith Mike Lewis fitted and chambered a 35-55 to a 
Browning BPCR that I have. He originally did this for Dan Theodore. Then Mike rebarreled the rifle to 38-50 Rem Hep.
I have been working with the 38-50 ever since I acquired it.
I really like it. 
Don't know if I will ever actually refit and shoot the 35-55 barrel. It is perfect, blued full octagon profile to fit the BRG.
I am thinking to sell this barrel.

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