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HELP Participating Member Offline Posts: 28 Location: pennsylvania Joined: May 21^st, 2011	WTB May 24^th, 2025 at 12:55pm	Print Post
	looking for a forged marlin-ballad action center fire. thanks tom


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HELP Participating Member Offline Posts: 28 Location: pennsylvania Joined: May 21^st, 2011	Re: WTB Reply #1 - May 28^th, 2025 at 9:47am	Print Post
	ILL KEEP TRYING


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UpNorthCountry Junior Member Offline Posts: 65 Joined: Jan 4^th, 2023	Re: WTB Reply #2 - May 28^th, 2025 at 10:09am	Print Post
	Best of luck. I’ve been looking for the same thing for two years.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16811 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: WTB Reply #3 - May 28^th, 2025 at 10:29am	Print Post
	I see them occasionally, but if they're in nice shape, or a pistol grip action they're often as expensive as a well worn complete rifle. I was talking with a friend about this very subject lately at the CGCA show as I have a Schoyen barrel I needed an action for. He said he had some, but they were all in the $1200-$1300 range. I ended up buying a complete rifle he had on his table for another $100 more and got buttstock and a new .45-70 barrel on it. Now I'm debating whether to take that nice new .45-70 barrel off, or just fit a forearm and be done.

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Babydriver Junior Member Offline Posts: 80 Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2024	Re: WTB Reply #4 - May 28^th, 2025 at 12:44pm	Print Post
	Question? How do you tell the difference between forged and cast?


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16811 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: WTB Reply #5 - May 28^th, 2025 at 12:54pm	Print Post
	Babydriver wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 12:44pm: Question? How do you tell the difference between forged and cast? The only 100% sure way is to drop the breech block and look under the barrel inside. If it's hollow under there and you can poke you pinky in the hollow it's cast. If it's solid under the barrel it's forged. Most Ballards with a 2 line address on the left side are forged, and 3 line are cast. But I've seen and owned both that were exceptions, so can't trust this for all of them, just 99% of them.

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burntwater Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 465 Location: Michigan Joined: Feb 5^th, 2018	Re: WTB Reply #6 - May 28^th, 2025 at 1:42pm	Print Post
	A very simple method to distinguish cast from machined steel is with an ultrasonic machine. I understand this won't help you much unless you know somebody that uses this equipment. I have three such machines that I used for years doing marine surveying inspections but unless you are near me, or know somebody who does, it's not much help. Here is how it works. These machines shoot a sound beam of various frequencies into the metal via a transducer. When the beam hits the far wall it echos or bounces back revealing any anomalies, voids, fractures or defects and thickness. Cast iron or any cast metal is porous and therefore scatters the sound beam resulting in no back-wall echo. If a rifle receiver is cast it's revealed instantly as a bunch of scattered noise. Anyway probably no help to you but a full proof method Rick


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16811 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: WTB Reply #7 - May 28^th, 2025 at 4:46pm	Print Post
	Sounds a lot more complicated than just looking at the action under the barrel.

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RJ-35-40 Full Member Offline Posts: 162 Joined: Dec 7^th, 2016	Re: WTB Reply #8 - May 29^th, 2025 at 7:04pm	Print Post
	Babydriver wrote on May 28^th, 2025 at 12:44pm: Question? How do you tell the difference between forged and cast? The way I do it is to just lower the breech block and look at the inside sides of the receiver from the top with a bright light or a flashlight. The hollow cavity is OBVIOUS..


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HELP Participating Member Offline Posts: 28 Location: pennsylvania Joined: May 21^st, 2011	Re: WTB Reply #9 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:32am	Print Post
	still looking


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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1765 Location: NW, Iowa Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: WTB Reply #10 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 11:07am	Print Post
	Tom, What are you looking to build? I have a #5, in process, that I MIGHT make available. Bob

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HELP Participating Member Offline Posts: 28 Location: pennsylvania Joined: May 21^st, 2011	Re: WTB Reply #11 - Jun 8^th, 2025 at 3:46pm	Print Post
	one more time . nothing yet. thanks tom


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cheatin_charlie Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 385 Location: ohio Joined: Jan 10^th, 2009	Re: WTB Reply #12 - Jun 8^th, 2025 at 6:24pm	Print Post
	What general area in PA do you live? Do you have anything to trade?


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