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ok so not much on 1885 issues but lots on Mad Trapper.
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I held off on the Browning 1885 variant because apparently the action teardown is a bit of a mouse trap.
Was advised to wait for a real one in a rimfire caliber. (Low wall) The trade off is no 17 hmr and in an optics friendly action.
Was advised to wait for a real one in a rimfire caliber. (Low wall) The trade off is no 17 hmr and in an optics friendly action.
ACKLEY ABE
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Yup and in the first part of my reply I said "not sure" but it was sort of blurred in with the rest. All I can tell you is it is 30" half rd half oct steel tang( which apparently dropped at some pt drilled and tapped both for a scope and for a tang site. Straight stock,satin. Miroku built, so nice fit and finish
Sorry, I was not clear on that, but I was a bit pissed off at the time.
Thanks
Abe
Sorry, I was not clear on that, but I was a bit pissed off at the time.
Thanks
Abe
I picked up a C Sharps 1885 in 22lr a few years back,it was ordered by someone else and they lost interest in it by the time it arrived,It has a 26 oct to round badger barrel and a single set trigger.I bought it from Prophet river in their consignment guns section where it sat for quite a while with no interest and after tormenting myself everyday by looking at it I just had to have it .I m glad I did because if I purchased the same gun new today from C Sharps it would cost me more than double what I paidthough with the quality of the gun it would be worth it
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He said in the beginning that his was a new production by Miroku. It's not old.
The 1885 Browning guns have a bunch of more modern thinking inside them, and are not at all the same as an original Winchester, or the current clones, like the C Sharps that Chasseur posted.
That sounds as reasonable as any. Shame about having the numbers polished off. I laugh when I asked about some horribly polished and abused specimens at the MJ Gun Show. "Oh, we have Collectors looking for these!" I asked if they were guys with Red River Wagons, looking for a suitable rifle to drag on the ground behind them! For the most part, if they had been cars, they would have been lined up behind someone's house on the Res...
I have both the Campbell books on the Winchester Single Shot Rifle, and they cover a lot of ground in them. Really interesting to see that the Low Wall action was designed to use the same basic forgings for the action, right from the outset.
Also worth noting, that without the serial number, there is really no solid answer to when it left the factory, because there were bins of parts that had been made, but not made into a gun and had a serial number applied, many years after they should not have been made, if you believe that they would have never back-stepped in the technology. Sometimes they pulled a flat spring action out of the bins and made it like the customer asked... Which pretty much means that the serial number, not the style of the innards, is how you tell for sure.
I had a Winchester 1885 in 22rf years ago It was my first 22 silhouette rifle It was a modern gun made in Japan. I used a MVA rear tang sight and a spirit level front globe sight great shooting rifle loved the CB shorts as well as Lapua .
The modern 1885 rifle have a lot more going on inside not the same guts as a old 1885 of years ago. It was the main reason I sold it off.
It was soon replaced with a Ballard #3 in 22 , custom built by a good friend and fellow shooter.
BTW .....Rex it still shoots like a Laser
Selkirk Game and fish Range 2 22 Rimfire Silhouette July 25 /2021
The modern 1885 rifle have a lot more going on inside not the same guts as a old 1885 of years ago. It was the main reason I sold it off.
It was soon replaced with a Ballard #3 in 22 , custom built by a good friend and fellow shooter.
BTW .....Rex it still shoots like a Laser
Selkirk Game and fish Range 2 22 Rimfire Silhouette July 25 /2021
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ACKLEY ABE
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Good to know. Rifle is already drilled and tapped for a tang site,so no need of Smith, Jones or anyone else, but I was told Lyman has discontinued production . That was my first choice, before going the scope route.
I'll give em a try, the right choice for that rifle.
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Abe
That sounds like a fun rifle Abe. Post some pics when you get the sights on it. - dan
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ACKLEY ABE
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I will, Dan, when I figure out how to post pics. It is a sweet rifle after finally getting through the scope issues. 22's seem to be going the same route as 308's for me. Never thought I'd have a 308, now have 5 or maybe 6. Had an Anshutz 22, 1416(I think. Mannlicher style stock) and a Rem 541 HB. Figured that would cover me, now have 5 or 6.... The right ones just keep coming up, you know how that goes...
The Anshutz was the first NEW rifle I bought... From Smokey's on 118 ave. I'm sure you remember them. Guy Morrison was working there and I showed up. He knew I had a bit of a passion for so called Mannlicher style stocks and held it up as I walked through the door.
Bob Prestash was good for that. He knew exactly what everyone liked. He held up a Model 70 Featherweight one day as I came in. Schnabel fore-end, nice straight grain with some figure and......fiddleback from stem to stern. I just asked him the price an bought it. Didn't matter what it was chambered for (.270 win as it turned out). I do miss the smaller shops where there was always a pot of coffee on.
Go into Sights and Arms most Saturday mornings now. They do have a pot of coffee on and they have become the recipients of a fair bit of my hard earned cash in the last cpl of years. Good guys. Maybe we'll see you down there some time.
Wow ...rambling on and on.
Take care, Dan.
I spent a lot of time at Smokeys 2 in the west end with Guy. And Trail saw a lot of money over the years. Miss all those great little shops. - dan
