Actually FF, it hasn't been that long, I just decided one day that my investments were "circling the bowl" so to speak so I cashed them in and started buying Winchesters which I know for a fact will appreciate and not depreciate like my investments were.........My motto has become "only invest in what you know" so for a few years I was buying several a month. I also hit it lucky with the timing, as Epps was liquidating an estate collection of which I bought most of them. It has only been about 8 years now, but I'm still working on it...........
Lets get a some lever action #### going
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Hard to read the cards, do you have a .50?
I'm not so sure about jacketed bullets in an 1886 vintage steel barrel without doing some sort of wear. The pressures should be safe enough. The factory loads I have are pretty lightly loaded.
Guess I should have picked up on the vintage earlier. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Cast boolits for a .40 S&W definitely work. I've got a double cavity mold and enough boolits for about 10 years worth of shooting.
Nope the 50-110 is one of the 86 calibers that still eludes me.......
Lionel........soft copper jackets in the old girls won't harm them at all, copper against steel just doesn't wear the steel. Using jacketed is the only way to shoot some of these old girls with poor bores.......Just make sure you adhere to the pressure limits for these oldies. Although they are all steel the metallurgy in the late 1800s was still very questionable and certainly not the science of today. Cartridges of the World has load data for most of these old calibers as well as case dimensions and their load data stays well within the pressure capabilities of the turn of the last century rifles.
I shoot all my Winchesters except the 66 which is a 44 Henry CF.......I could make brass and shoot it but I won't, it's just too valuable and in excellent condition, think I'd just as soon keep it that way. I shoot jacketed bullets in every caliber I can buy them for, and Bullet Barn cast for the couple that I can't.
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Rob.........it's funny you should ask that as the only one I DON'T shoot is the 66.........I have purchased or made brass for every single one but the 66, it's kinda funny but virtually every cartridge in the old Winchesters is based on about 3 or 4 cases that are still readily available. For the 95s I have made cases for the 38-72 and 40-72 by turning down the rim thickness and diameter of 405 cases, 35 WCF can be made from 30-40 Krag, 33 WCF and 38-56 can be made from 45-70, 40-82 can be made from 45 basic as can 45-90......The rest all are still available, like all the 92 cartridges, all the 94 cartridges, the 73 cartridges (which of course are the same as the 92). My 45-60 in the 76 can be made from 45-70. The rimmed 95s are all based off 2 cases the Krag and the 405 and the '06 of course, for the rimless.......the 86s are all from either the 45-70/90 and the 50-110........the 92s and 73s are from the 32-20 and the 44-40 in CF, the 94s are all based off the 30-30 case, or 38-55 which ever you like as they are for all intents and purposes, the same case. Even the 348 in the 71 is based off the 50-110 case.
So as you can see it really isn't that difficult to make them all into shooters and not have to risk using vintage brass.
So as you can see it really isn't that difficult to make them all into shooters and not have to risk using vintage brass.
Very interesting...but it sounds like a full time job. It reminds me of the time when I tried to own five motorcycles, but the maintenance took the fun out of it in the end and now I'm a one-at-a-time bike guy. Still, your collection looks great and if you have the time..why not. Do you hunt with any of them?
No Rob I never have............Maybe I'm too serious about my hunting, but I have several better suited rifles in my rack, for any style of hunting you may wish to name and I do not believe in handicapping myself. If I do wish to change it up a bit and give the critters a chance I will take out my bow. In the type of hunting where these rifles would shine I have my 350 RM Mod 7 KS and a 7-08 and 358 in Mod 7s which are light compact and fast handling. Nope I just punch paper and plink with them and I have shot the odd competition with them......I won the lever gun shoot they last held in Whitehorse with a 94 1/2 oct 1/2 rnd button mag in 32 spl.
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Sounds like me...I have all sorts of interesting collectible rifles, yet when it comes to actual real world hunting, even when its just for Whitetails or Moose, I always pick from the two or three most efficient practical rifles that I own: light, fast handling bolt rifles in my favorite go-to calibers...I have enough experience to know what I can rely on.
freddyfour
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Those 1893's certainly are sweet
freddyfour
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Man that is a sharp looking Marlin
