Now what

[bruce moulds]

you could build a british match rifle on a farquarson or deeley and edge action purely for long range.
only thing is 461 gibbs would be the obvious chambering.
apparently most of those old british rifles are in America now
keep safe,
bruce

[desert deuce]

Will this be the year of .44 madness? Sounds like it may be heading that way.

Pulled the 44-70 & 44-90 out of the safe yesterday, the .44 cease fire treaty ends May 5th.

Don, before you do anything slug both ends of the tube about six inches in and get a good measure of land and groove, then do an EXACT rate of twist test and send the results in a PM.

I load the 44-70 up a bit and the 44-90 down quite a bit. Both are embarrassingly accurate.

There are some things we should discuss before it gets threaded or reamed.

[Semtav]

don,
a steve earle Wesson long range would be nice, but who can afford it?
keep safe,
bruce.

There was a real nice one on Gunbrokers I was dealing on, but it turned out to have a real slow twist 1-22 in 45-110. so I passed. I think they are just drop dead gorgeous guns.

[bruce moulds]

brian,
that rifle was only a smith gaintwist away from what you wanted.
they really make confetti! as well as being elegant.
one of them or a farquarson with a staff on the heel of the stock really has the look of a long range match rifle from the day.
keep safe,
bruce.

[Don McDowell]

Will this be the year of .44 madness? Sounds like it may be heading that way.

Pulled the 44-70 & 44-90 out of the safe yesterday, the .44 cease fire treaty ends May 5th.

Don, before you do anything slug both ends of the tube about six inches in and get a good measure of land and groove, then do an EXACT rate of twist test and send the results in a PM.

I load the 44-70 up a bit and the 44-90 down quite a bit. Both are embarrassingly accurate.

There are some things we should discuss before it gets threaded or reamed.

We'll be talking. The barrel got here yesterday, haven't had much time to mess with it, but it looks like the rifling is awfully shallow.
Weather goes to pot tonight, so there should be time the next week to dive into this thing a bit.

[JReed]

So did you figure out what your going to mate it too?

[desert deuce]

Don was down in the pasture Tuesday morning looking for a sturdy fencepost to make the stock out of and he mentioned something about a Benjamin action he was trying to run down and if that didn't work out there was a Crossman receiver in Cheyenne he thought he could get.

If the Benjamin or Crossman actions don't work out he can always fall back on a Borchardt.

At least he has the right barrel for a long range rifle and the right gunsmith. What he does with his available options is always subject to conjecture. Just have to wait and see.

[Don McDowell]

Yeh I think i'll fix it to a remington 700 inline muzzle loader..
Fix it all up with a simmons whitetail 4-24 scope.

[Mike]

Don was down in the pasture Tuesday morning looking for a sturdy fencepost to make the stock out of and he mentioned something about a Benjamin action he was trying to run down and if that didn't work out there was a Crossman receiver in Cheyenne he thought he could get.

If the Benjamin or Crossman actions don't work out he can always fall back on a Borchardt.

At least he has the right barrel for a long range rifle and the right gunsmith. What he does with his available options is always subject to conjecture. Just have to wait and see.

Desert, How could you forget a Daisy action? Shoot sharp, Mike

[JReed]

Hahaha.