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Old Win Highwall 32-40 Schuetzen Rifle Question (Read 364 times)

joelpend Participating Member Offline Posts: 46 Location: Central North Carolina Joined: Dec 29^th, 2015	Old Win Highwall 32-40 Schuetzen Rifle Question Feb 26^th, 2026 at 10:03pm	Print Post
	I am looking at a nice auction rifle that has a Pope marked Winchester barrel with the muzzle drilled for a false muzzle. My question - Was there a standard for the chamber and throating on a rifle that was set up to load from the muzzle? Is it likely this rifle can be shot with fixed ammo or breech seated? The false muzzle device is not offered so likely got separated from the rifle at some point.


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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2243 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Old Win Highwall 32-40 Schuetzen Rifle Question Reply #1 - Feb 27^th, 2026 at 1:23am	Print Post
	In my less than perfect experience, the only way to tell for sure is to make a chambercast.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17780 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Old Win Highwall 32-40 Schuetzen Rifle Question Reply #2 - Feb 27^th, 2026 at 9:59am	Print Post
	I own one Pope and one Schoyen barreled Ballard that are both false muzzle barrels. I did a chamber case of both chambers and didn't come up with any results to make me think they couldn't be fired with fixed bullets in cases. Both shoot great with fixed bullets. Hard to say what might happen with the gun you're looking at though.

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RDBallard Full Member Offline Posts: 110 Location: Kansas Joined: Apr 22^nd, 2020	Re: Old Win Highwall 32-40 Schuetzen Rifle Question Reply #3 - Mar 1^st, 2026 at 4:44pm	Print Post
	I think it depends on the caliber. I've read that when Pope bored barrels out to 33 or 39 caliber they were never intended to be shot with fixed or breech seated as the bullet would be too big to fit inside of the 32 or 38 cartridge if that makes any sense.


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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 12214 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Old Win Highwall 32-40 Schuetzen Rifle Question Reply #4 - Mar 1^st, 2026 at 9:41pm	Print Post
	Bob Zimmerman breech seated his Pope Stevens false muzzle Ballard all the time. Watched him cut the 25 ring out of a target one time at 200 yards. As long as the chamber neck is groove diameter or bigger so a bullet can be pushed into the bore it can be breech seated.

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