RR said:
Here it is a little rough and should never have been D&Td ,but it comes up quick and is fun to use.
Underneath is a Marlin 27S in 25-20
Rich
Ok, now consider me jealous, mate.
I love both.
I own a BSA Martini Cadet that was sporterised: restocked with a custom home-made sort of laminate stock and rebarreled to 25-20 .
It has a steel-tube Weaver K6 on it and is diabolical on bunnies.
A year or so back I picked up a pre-WW1 Belgian Martini rook rifle barrelled receiver in 32-20.
The action is rare as rocking horse poo and I've also got another barrelled receiver of the same type in 297/230 so even if I found parts the 297/230 would be rebuilt first as it still has its extractor and trigger and is in much better shape.
The 32-20 bbl is octagonal and I couldn't bear seeing it go to waste so I'll be getting it bead blasted and polished.
The thread will be cut off and it will be re-threaded, re-reamed to 32-20 and the rear of the chamber cut ready to be fitted to another BSA Cadet action I have.
The bore is not much chop but it wasn't meant for jacketed pills anyway and if I find it shooting "minute of elephant" with standard 32-20 lead pills I'll simply get a mould made one or 2 thou bigger which should clear up a lot of accuracy issues.
Anyhow, at the end I should end up with a pair like yours, except of course that they'll be single shots and the scope will be on the opposite cal.
If you want to see pics let me know.