Thanks. Great shooter too. Won a woods walk shoot with it a year ago and was basically guessing load and hold. Fortunately it worked well.
Dandy rifles!
Why is that 40 not a shooter? She's too purdy to ignore.
Depends if you are buying or selling and the price.
The bore has some pretty bad pitting in it and the breach plug is only finger tight. Over the years I've thought of ways to get it shooting but it's better off hanging on the wall in a place of honor. About 54 years ago I loaded it up with a ball from Dixie Gun Works and proof fired it with a light load. It held together so I loaded it up and hiked up a hill behind the house to a place that overlooked a pond. There was a nice mallard paddling around on the pond so I touched off a shot at it. Missed him by several feet and that was the last time it was fired. I wasn't too many miles from where my 3G Grandfather is buried and I remember hoping that he heard the shot but was probably cussing me for missing.
A good and thoughtful evaluation with excellent points. The nice thing about a good well made rifle is it a pleasure to own and shoot regardless of age. Thanks
if i came dragging that into the house I would be wiggling like a new puppy so hard I wouldn't even hear the wife's " not another one!"
Yeah my wife says that every time I bring a new adoptee. Usually followed by “How many do you need?” Not a matter of need but rather want. lol.
I have seen that and primarily on flint to percussion conversations. Here is an old .38 with a Golcher lock. No question this is an antique rifle. Few hard and fast rules except ML rifles are fascinating.
If you study the old Hawken and other snail breech rifles, you notice the outside of snail seems to be flush with the lockplate. All modern rifles the snail overhangs the lockplate.
