Obsolete Cartriges

I've got new factory boxes of 38/55 in the gun room.
It's not obsolete.

You keep talking about and I'm going to have to go outside and shoot it soon.



munk
 
I bet you could get someone to make a barrel and chamber insert for a martini single shot that would convert it to .41 mag!

:D

One of my Swiss Schmidt Rubins is chambered for an obsolete version of 7.5 Swiss. The GP11 ammo is not safe to shoot in it. Since it already has been butchered before i got it, i toy with the idea of putting a 30-30 or 38-55 barrel on it. The rear case dimensions of the 7.5 are extremely close to the winchester cartridges. i would just make it a single shot, so no worries about a magazine.

I could handload for this rifle, but i worry about someone slipping in the more powerful cartridges by accident...

Tom
 
I'd love one of those British military single shots, Tom, but was never at the right place at the right time.

Someday I'll own a Ruger. I like them, but the price has always kept me away.




munk
 
Thank you, Tom. I've looked at their site and placed it in my Favorites folder.

Very nice.

Tom, you're just one of those guys I wish lived next door so we could go shooting together....




munk
 
That's mighty nice of you Munk.

I wish the same...

How close do you live to Shiloh Sharps? maybe I could land a job with them!

There are several great engravers out that way. Whenever I get famous enough, I could live wherever I want!

:D


:cool:


Tom
 
One of the sweetest shooting rifles that I have ever fired was a Winchester Model 92 in .25-20 that my brother owns. It had an action so smooth that it worked like teflon on teflon. The Model 92 is, of course, the version of the Winchester that you usually see in all of the old western movies, such as the John Wayne films, and it was the basis for the rifle in "The Rifleman" tv series with Chuck Connors. They had placed a flip-out tab on the trigger guard so that he could do the rapid fire trick with it. I know of a few teenagers from tghe late 1950s who jammed the triggers on lever action rifles through their fingers trying to duplicate that trick w/o the flip-out tab. The Puma Brazilian rifles use the Model 92 design, but their actions are nowhere near as smooth as my brother's rifle.

Another weapon of his that was awfully nice was a .41 Colt Single Action Army with the Bisby style grips on it. Very accurate and very easy shooting.
 
Speaking of the Martini, one of the most interesting rifles I ever saw was one our gunsmith had. It was a varmint rifle in .218 Bee. It was built on a Martini action with a Douglas barrell. However this Martini action was a good deal smaller than most of the ones I have seen. Did they make some sort of a smaller version?:confused:
 
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