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1885 High Wall
Sep 24th, 2026 at 12:06pm
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Bought it as a 25-20 WCF with a bad barrel. Bought a unturned blank 1-10 and turned it to match old barrel. Machined and hand formed a front base for the sight. Color case hardened the action.
  
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Reply #1 - Sep 24th, 2026 at 12:08pm
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Reply #2 - Sep 24th, 2026 at 12:39pm
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Nicely done!
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 24th, 2026 at 12:50pm
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Nicely done.
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Reply #4 - Sep 24th, 2026 at 2:33pm
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Nice job of work! How does it shoot?
  
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Re: 1885 High Wall
Reply #5 - Sep 26th, 2026 at 4:54am
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Looks great. What is the rear sight?
  
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Re: 1885 High Wall
Reply #6 - Sep 26th, 2026 at 7:50am
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Rear sight is original on first two generations of winder muskets. I think it was from the Krag rifle.
  
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Re: 1885 High Wall
Reply #7 - Sep 26th, 2026 at 8:14am
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First, nice job on your high wall musket.  I especially like that you duplicated the original musket front sight base so closely.
Two questions;  is that early enough to be a leaf spring action or was it a Second Model (coil spring) Musket?  Also, what is your new chambering?  I have two 25-20s now, a coil spring high wall sporter and a leaf spring low wall marked 25 WCF, but chambered from the factory in what we call now 25-20 SS.  Makes brass more challenging, but is otherwise fun and fine!
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Re: 1885 High Wall
Reply #8 - Sep 26th, 2026 at 8:36am
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Just read there were only something like three Winder muskets produced in 25-20 WCF.  Could yours be one of those?

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Also, somewhere Bert wrote an article that list the serial numbers of the 25-20 Winders.
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Re: 1885 High Wall
Reply #9 - Sep 27th, 2026 at 7:50am
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It is a rebore 22 with center fire parts in it. It is now a 25-20 WCF. I posted about another one I have in 25-20 Single Shot.  My 75 year old eyes do work  well with those iron sights.
  
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