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Re: Someone help me Identify this Rolling Block action
Reply #15 - yesterday at 8:38pm
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The action has a Green Mountain 54 caliber muzzleloader barrel threaded onto it.  It had an inline breech threaded into the barrel.  When I bought it the inline breech with musket nipple was installed,  making it an unusual inline muzzleloader. 
I snapped a few musket caps on the nipple and they were a pain to remove.  I can see why the action has scratches from a knife etc.  trying to remove the caps and fragments. I removed the inline breech and want to install a 50 caliber liner and chamber it to 50-90 Sharps. I  guess they cut the extractor notch rather than remove the extractor,  which helps me a lot and allows the action to be returned to centerfire.
I guess I should have said this to begin with.   

Btw, had anyone seen a RB converted to inline muzzleloader before? 
  
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Re: Someone help me Identify this Rolling Block action
Reply #16 - yesterday at 8:56pm
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I am not sure how easy it is to get a 50-90 rim to clear the hammer.  My #5 is now a 50-70 and it is all my shoulder wants and then some!  The buffalo I shot with it didn't know it was only a 50-70 and not a 50-90 and succumbed.  Tom
  
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Re: Someone help me Identify this Rolling Block action
Reply #17 - yesterday at 11:23pm
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Thanks. Got it now.
  
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Reply #18 - Today at 12:23am
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Yippy, when I had Higginbotham convert my 1902 to a buffalo rifle I was thinking about doing it in 50-90. He talked me out of it and said I just wanted a 50-70. Maybe the problem loading the 50-90 was part of that but he said his was a 50-70.
And I have a Westley Richards "Improved Martini" (really an internal hammer Peabody) that I had converted in the late 1960s to what now would be called an inline muzzleloader.
  
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