Picked up this Bremer High Wall about 10 days ago. It has a great George C Schoyen .38-55 barrel on it that has a like new bore. A bucket list item to find a Bremer a friend had, and a bonus to have my favorite barrel maker's barrel!
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The rifle did have a few little issues that needed addressing, so I began with the first and most serious issue; the hammer dropping! I could almost get the lever closed when suddenly the hammer fell sharply. Tried backing off the single set trigger adjustment, but even removing the screw didn't solve the issue. I took the action apart to discover the problem, and found someone has built up the concave side of the sear with solder! The solder was likely an attempt to control engagement in the hammer notch, but over the years it had smeared down towards the end of the sear and kept the sear from engaging the notch at all. I scraped the solder off the sear, reassembled the action and it worked perfectly! One down and two to go.
The next issue was the poor lever that someone bobbed the rear tang off of! It made opening and closing the action difficult, and I decided to put it back like Winchester had made them. 
I cut a piece of flat bar 3/16" thick and shaped it down to match  another 1885 Scheutzen. I worked it over my anvil to bend the curve to match, and then welded it where the nub was left from the old tang. Dressed it down with my Fordam and some various tips and polished it.
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Final repair was the Bremer buttplate that someone decided to whack the prongs off! I had a repro Winchester buttplate, so I chopped the prongs off that buttplate, and fitted them to the Bremer. I cut the points off the Bremer that someone had shaped, and then drilled and tapped the buttplate and the prongs for 8-32 thread. Made a stud to thread the prongs on and brazed them in place.
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It took a lot of heat to get the rod to flow on the heavy buttplate, but once it got hot enough it flowed well. I put a lock washer between the buttplate and the prongs to hold them aligned, and give a small gap for the brazing rod to flow into for more strength.

 

On a scale of 1 to 10 I think you did an 11, putting the old girl back together. Too many of the old rifles have been butchered for whatever reason. 
Nice work !

A. J. Palik

Well, after you did that to it, ya simply need to get it out and fire a bunch of rounds and get back to us with the results. Good idea, huh?

Nice job my friend.

The formula is a cup of vinegar and add salt to taste.  Oh wait, that is for salt and vinegar deep fried chicken wings.

calledflyer wrote on Oct 31^st, 2025 at 6:27pm:


That's the plan Pat. But I got 4 of these High Walls from my friend, so need to work up loads for three of them. Two in .38-55 Schoyen, one .25-35 WCF, and one in .22LR Pope barrel. That .22 Pope requires me to move my Pope scope rings to it and replace the scope on my Zettler Ballard to make the swap and get it sighted in with whatever .22LR ammo it likes best.

bobw wrote on Nov 1^st, 2025 at 12:09pm:


Thanks Bob!
Just found a couple issues with the Pope barreled High Wall also! Missing .22RF extractor, and coil mainspring feels like someone made it from a ball point pen! I can cock the hammer with my pinky finger! So a couple more repairs to do!

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Going to see if the seller's gunsmith still has the extractor. Wyoming Armory lists them, and DZ Arms lists the coil mainsprings.

DZ Arms has some nice Winchester parts

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gunlaker wrote on Nov 1^st, 2025 at 1:48pm:


Thanks Chris. Yeah, I love project guns, and this was an easy one as those go.