Your stock has been cut shorter with the barrel being left full length. Good candidate to splice a piece of front wood onto and restore to original. I have a habit of restoring old military rifles back to original.
Impulse buy - .577 snider-enfield -w- Bayonet
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antiqueguy
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The wood was cut down I have one just like it and plan on leaving it be and use it for hunting.
When you have a sporter of this age can’t help but respect it a bit for what it is someone bought it cheap 100 plus years ago and most likely used it to put food on the table.
Id love to use one for hunting. Need to make the front sight taller though. Shoots real high at 50 and 100 which is how they were. If I use the fine sight picture with front sight in the bottom of the notch and hold at 6 on my 50 yard plate it hits.
antiqueguy
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A number 4 lee enfield sigh protector with a homemade blade inserted makes a fine new front sight. Theirs a thread over on another forum pretty much dedicated to these old British war horses call snider alternative sighting systems.
Yes my brass is dominion "577 Snider shot" pulled one part today and it all looked pretty good inside, so hopefully they go bang. Going to start with purchasing some brass & projectiles but casting would be alot of fun! Bringing in my firing pin to a machinist friend and going to see if he can spin me one up - Do you have the specs handy? really just need overall length as just the firing end is snapped off. He can take measurements on the ret. worse case is I get him to make it extra long and then grind to fit.
I know - one thing I love with these old rifles is the history that goes with them, I am looking forward to putting some food on the table with mine. If I can get it up and running well would love to hunt bear/deer with it next year. Thing is so long if I put the bayonet on I can spear them from the tree stand
I collect old tractors and is cool looking at them and thinking the acres they have worked. Have an old Oliver bulldozer with a 4" blade- looks pathetic now but certainly beat the shovel in the old days. The Yukon "top of the world" highway was built with little dozers like that - at least from the pictures - no d11's on site/
Plus all the old stuff is built so much better. These old tractors that got beat on left in barns for years and usually if you can get them turning over they will start after a 5 minute carb rebuild courtesy of brake cleaner.
Wonder how an AR would fair after 150 years....
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antiqueguy
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I know - one thing I love with these old rifles is the history that goes with them, I am looking forward to putting some food on the table with mine. If I can get it up and running well would love to hunt bear/deer with it next year. Thing is so long if I put the bayonet on I can spear them from the tree stand
I collect old tractors and is cool looking at them and thinking the acres they have worked. Have an old Oliver bulldozer with a 4" blade- looks pathetic now but certainly beat the shovel in the old days. The Yukon "top of the world" highway was built with little dozers like that - at least from the pictures - no d11's on site/
Plus all the old stuff is built so much better. These old tractors that got beat on left in barns for years and usually if you can get them turning over they will start after a 5 minute carb rebuild courtesy of brake cleaner.
Wonder how an AR would fair after 150 years....
That’s my thoughts the story’s it could tell. Here in Canada dominion cartridge company made their .57 snider ammo right up till the war so they were probably used for quite some time especially in the more rural areas.
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Janssen,
I measured two original firing pins with the shorter one that has the surface where the hammer hits a bit peened over measuring 2.710" OAL and an original that has no signs of peening measured out to 2.75" OAL I had a reproduction made that is 2.725" and it works fine.
I measured two original firing pins with the shorter one that has the surface where the hammer hits a bit peened over measuring 2.710" OAL and an original that has no signs of peening measured out to 2.75" OAL I had a reproduction made that is 2.725" and it works fine.
Very nice Grant.
