1885 Highwall Project.

L.Parratt

L.Parratt

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Edmonton Alberta.
Picked up this 1885 of the EE here a couple months ago. Figure I'd share.

The rifle was originally a 45-70 allegedly but the barrel is now a 40-65WCF. And seemingly a correct Winchester 1885 barrel.

This is the rifle as of today. New buttstock installed. Post a Rust blue. But missing its trigger Knock off spring & Screw. If anyone has one please let me know. Also missing a buttplate I'll need to source.
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Here's the rifle as it came to me. The buttstock was not original and seemed to be made out of a 2x4
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I attempting Rust conversion but some of the pitting was too deep. So I went with a Rust stripper.
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One other thing that I needed to address was a burr on the chamber a rotary stone was a easy fix for it.
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And here's the Factory letter.
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I JUST missed that 1885 on the EE! Your work looks great! Good to see you've resurrected it.
If you need parts, give C.Sharps Arms in Montana a call. They make a true replica Winchester 1885 and their parts will fit. They may well ship straight to Canada for small parts.ive dealt with them in the past.
Montana Vintage Arms is also good to deal with:
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Cheers,
Tharjoe
 
Hahaha a lot of people said the same to me. Definitely a great deal at $285. I've ordered a new buttplate and grip cap from CPA.

Barrel was not "shiny and not to bad" as the ad described. However. So I'm toying with relining or replacing.

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Thank you, Sir. I have a lovely octagon barrelled replica High Wall, made by Uberti, complete with 'shoulder-killer' old-style stock. Apparently, never having posted any kind of image here before, I have now 'exceeded my assigned storage space by 36.8kb', but I'm sure you know the style. I'm quite handy with tools, so fitting a replacement stock might not be beyond my skill level, but you having done it, I'd appreciate your comments on the amount of fitting that might be needed.

Failing that, I'd appreciate a steer on toning down the 'bowling pin' gloss finish on the wooden bits.
 
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I'm lucky, the stock required no fitting at all. But I just use inletting die to fit other stocks. Shows the high parts that need to be removed.

I've refinished shiny stocks down to more matte by using a Cabinet Burnisher. Then reapplying the finish I want.
 
L.Parratt said:
I'm lucky, the stock required no fitting at all. But I just use inletting die to fit other stocks. Shows the high parts that need to be removed.

I've refinished shiny stocks down to more matte by using a Cabinet Burnisher. Then reapplying the finish I want.
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Many years ago I used inletting black with worked OK but it was quite messy. I switched to just soot from a coal oil lamp (without the chimney) and for it MUCH better than the commercial inletting black. "back in the day", soot from a bees wax candle was popular. Te only "issue" with the lamp is you have to light it, then blow it out right away, then relight it for each application. Still better than the messy/greasey commercial black that I was useing prior. BTW, nice score. If to were me I would rebarrel, probably not much more $ than boring and relining (if any) but a much better end result. Whatever you choose, happy to see it getting the love it deserves.
 
I would sit down with a bore brush with a cleaning patch with a mix of kroil and JB Bore Paste and try lapping that bore it may become shootable
 
cdnrokon said:
I would sit down with a bore brush with a cleaning patch with a mix of kroil and JB Bore Paste and try lapping that bore it may become shootable
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I've been giving it a JB clean about once a week it's not getting much better. But my MVA order is on the way finally so a range trip is hopefully gonna happen by the end of the month
 
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