Mowrey

[kemart17]

Another gun I recently picked up in a trade but haven't shot. Do any of you shoot such critters? If so, how do you like it. It's a .54.View attachment 44207

have a steel receiver mowery in .32 cal, sadly haven't shot it yet. to many other projects...ugh

 

[bpd303]

Picked up mine in 2013 at the Saunders spring shoot. It's a 50 caliber steel receiver and like others have said a bit of a cheek slapper unless it's held out from the shoulder. A very fine shooter and as accurate as can be.

 

[toot]

i was lucky enough to find a brass one in 45cal in kit form up here in canada , from when they were still produced in Texas. Put it together a while back, but have as yet to actually shoot it. Even came with a set of replacement springs.

that's a real beauty. sad in the NORTH EAST, we never see any one shooting them?

 

[toot]

Picked up mine in 2013 at the Saunders spring shoot. It's a 50 caliber steel receiver and like others have said a bit of a cheek slapper unless it's held out from the shoulder. A very fine shooter and as accurate as can be.
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a beauty!

 

[bradley jackson]

There was another very limited production Allen & Thurber look alike made in Illinois in the 1970's by a company called G&G (one of the G's was George Gilbert, an Orland Park, IL police officer and part time gunsmith). the rifles used a coil spring rather than the horseshoe flat main spring and Douglass barrels. I shot a .50 cal G&G for several years in the mid 70's at local shoots and Friendship. That rifle shot better than I did!

 

[rpatmuck]

Bill Mowrey made a 45 caliber off hand target rifle many years ago which I still shoot today. I love that rifle and it is the most accurate target rifle I own for off hand matches! This was a custom rifle made for me and all the wood and metal work was top notch. He loved his work and I am proud to own several of his rifles that he built for me and my sons.

 

[tenngun]

Only concern I had with a couple was a punky mainspring.

Mine only popped every third cap. I made a wooden wedge and tapped it in at the bottom. It was a big c shaped spring.
I didn’t know how easy it was to break a spring then. And I owned that gun and shot it a lot for five years with out ever breaking the spring

 

[JCKelly]

First time I saw one was a pile of barrel pieces smeared with some reddish brown stuff.
Had been from a bronze frame rifle .50 cal. 1" octagon, 32" long. sent to me from Arkansas. I would say the poor guy could only get the ball down to maybe a foot away from the breech, then unfortunately shot the rifle. Lost thumb, remaining fingers stiff. Reference January, 1980 Buckskin Report. Gun used a then-popular 12L14 barrel.

Mid-1980's that rifle barrel manufacturer ceased advertising these muzzle-loading barrels. Whole subject covered in Oct-Nov-Dec three part series, Muzzle Blasts.

I realize no one wants to hear this. Me neither. I used to shoot those barrels, too. Accurate, they were.

 

[dlaw4570]

have a steel receiver mowery in .32 cal, sadly haven't shot it yet. to many other projects...ugh

Deer Creek Products in Waldron Ind. May still have some...

 

[Shortgrub]

Like Mark said the lock mechanism is very simple but that stirrup that connects the mainspring is weak. My local smith fixed mine and has yet to fail. Very short hammer throw. Mine is a steel framed .54 that likes a thicker patch .020 and .530 ball. I had to grind down the taper on my nipple in order to get #11 caps to go off reliably.

 

[rmark]

Mine is browned steel framed .50. The drop in the stock is comfortable for me but the fine front sight is becoming a bit hard to see. (when I got reading glasses the eye doctor chuckled and and said I was just the right age).

 

[Bikemooch]

i was lucky enough to find a brass one in 45cal in kit form up here in canada , from when they were still produced in Texas. Put it together a while back, but have as yet to actually shoot it. Even came with a set of replacement springs.


I'm curious of the serial number on your Mowry. I've got a brass receiver .45, and I'm trying to establish it's age. Mine is number 8075. Mine also has a brass ramrod, which makes it quite muzzle heavy, but also helps with recoil.

 

[Flinty Scot]

Outlan22, beautiful job on it! Enjoy.

 

[outlan22]

Bikemooch
My barrel is marked #7713 , went through all the original papers that it came with and other then the date on the newspaper the brass forestock was wrapped in was on the back of the folded sales flyer.

 

[griffiga]

As the barrel's twist is 1-30, I want to try shooting sabots. I ordered two different .54 sabots ( 50 each) that would allow me to shoot both .429-.430 and .454 bullets. I have an abundance of bullets in both calibers. Anybody had any luck with such?

 

[Grenadier1758]

I forget which Forum rule it is, but we can't discuss sabots, unless we are wearing them on our feet as wooden shoes.

 

[Zonie]

Forum Rule # 9: We do not discuss copper and/or jacketed, plastic/polymer tipped bullets, sabots, power belts, or other 'plastic-wrapped' bullets. Smoothbores using plastic wads and steel shot are an exception to this rule.

 

[Shortgrub]

Mine is browned steel framed .50. The drop in the stock is comfortable for me but the fine front sight is becoming a bit hard to see. (when I got reading glasses the eye doctor chuckled and and said I was just the right age).

We are always the right age if we can wait long enough