Schuetzendave wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2025 at 3:57pm:


I wont buy ANY CPA stocks. Had too many issues with their stock work. And I don't want a pistol grip stock that's open where my fingers rest.

1Hawkeye wrote on Sep 5^th, 2025 at 11:06pm:



I showed you mine but you didn't show me yours and then you didn't sell yours here. I'm like bummed man...   

Well that sucks. Wish I'd known it was going to be sold elsewhere, I wouldn't have even commented.

So I took it to a dealer that deals in antique guns  that his clients just collect and don't shoot.

I'm going to add one more comment to the "dog pile".  

If you had offered the rifle here and especially if you had noted the oversized chamber as part of the proposed sale,  the buyer would've most likely had both the knowledge and the wherewithal to have the chamber sleeved or would've otherwise corrected the problem and made the rifle safe.

Instead, I can almost guarantee that at some point down the road that rifle will again fall into the hands of someone who wants to shoot it.  Of course there's always the chance that a chamber cast will be made BEFORE that new owner heads for the range and the oversized chamber will be discovered and corrected.  But maybe not.  And maybe that new owner will not be as lucky as you.

Bill Lawrence

1Hawkeye wrote on Aug 31^st, 2025 at 3:56pm:

We were all acting in good faith to help you set a value for your gun based on both your initial description and this follow-up response. Now you are defensive that we don't understand why you left out the most critical issue which would have totally changed our help as to your gun's valuation and not raised our expectation for it's sale here.

Oleblacksmith wrote on Sep 7^th, 2025 at 8:27am:

I  took the rifle to the range after my first post asking about it. There several members here who are upset with me that I didn't sell it to them or on the website. That's why I'm defensive. I'll put it back on the crybabys. Would you sell a piece that has a known problem on a forum? Even if you disclose the information nobody's going to pay top dollar then. Also what would you do if the new owner is injured and comes back on you? The only way I found it was a oversized chamber was by getting a face full of hot gass and doing a casting. How many of you guys do a chamber cast on a caliber marked piece? Or do you have calibrated eyes?

So how do you get an oversized chamber in a 45-70 unless it isn't a 45-70 or say, a 40-70 was fired in it?

Well Vall, to you fairly new means made after 1900. 
It does remind me that I should make a chamber cast of my new 30-30 high wall. It shoots fine but looks to have a long throat.