Rolling Blocks

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I find myself more and more facinated with these guns. I have one rebarreled in 45/70 but was just shooting my friends swedish sporter conversion the other day. It was a blast to shoot and in excellent condition too. I wish I had of jumped on board when tradex had a bunch of em. Anyone know if any are still around in the 4-500$ish range? Tradex seesm to only have mostly 12 mm full wood military antiques
 
The DCRA has a shooting category for long range black powder cartridge rifles. Your 45/70 is considered a starter calibre in that league. Duplex loads, gas checks, cast bullets, big tall sights and rests permitted. It is always reassuring when the target goes down as the smoke cloud clears.
 
I only have one these rifles, but they are pleasure to shoot and are very accurate. I would definalty recommend the vintage Rolling Blocks ,they come in a wide rage of weird and wonderful calibers.

Here's Mine in 50-70, New York State Militia.

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I have a 1 1/2 in .32 rf. Outside is very nice, bore is not. Have yet to decide whether it should be rebored or sleeved, and what calibre it should become. I will maintain its antique status, of course.
 
Fired a falling block 1885 Highwall in 45/70 this weekend with the vernier(??) tang sites and front globe. One shot and I was amazed. 2nd shot and I was hooked. Where can I find something like this for under 2G? Is it possible?

All I've seen for Rolling blocks so far is marstar and tradex, both CGN sponsors
 
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I have 2 of these. One a 50-70 has been in the family since new. It is in poor shape, needs to be relined. Other is a refurbished 45-70 that I got stateside. It was a pia to get imported as the markings were polished to the point where they were hard to read. Got a good fellow at customs who was a gun owner and he made it happen. With full loads the 45-70 with no recoil pad will get your full attention. We shoot 4" round steel @ 50-100-125 yd. we need to upgrade the sights to go much further. Loads of fun, Mark
 
for under 2g stick with a repoduction I just sold my original highwall with all the goodies for just a bit more than that. Try out the billy dixon sharps you will not be sorry that you did. I have one with parts unknown sights on it and she shoots sweet better than my Rolling block and my highwall just because of the double set triggers. biggest thing is loads find a bullet that works and stick with it.Ben Hunchak makes nice stuff and is in Sask.
bladerogers said:
Fired a falling block 1885 Highwall in 45/70 this weekend with the vernier(??) tang sites and front globe. One shot and I was amazed. 2nd shot and I was hooked. Where can I find something like this for under 2G? Is it possible?

All I've seen for Rolling blocks so far is marstar and tradex, both CGN sponsors
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I'm on this site, just PM me, lots of bullets and stuff for the old/replica BP rifles, quite a bit of experience with Highwalls/sharps/rolling Blocks. Once you shoot these old guns that are well set up, you're hooked for life......Ben
 
An original trigger will be the best mechanical relationships of the late-1800s. If the parts have any possible smoothing or relief, get out your stones. Otherwise, you'll have to enjoy it as is.
 
MauserMike said:
Can the triggers be made decent on these?

The one I tried could have used some vice grips to pull the trigger!
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custom making a trigger return spring out of wire makes a huge difference you cand find info on the american sites www.bpcr.net

Having owned and shot my New York Roller for a month or so now and having improved my groups significantly, I decided it was time to do something about the "help! I need a come-along to trip the sear" trigger pull. I guess the Remington folks wanted a goof proof, idiot proof, all weather, no mistake about it you really have to pull the trigger to discharge the firearm- trigger weight. I estimated it to be around 7-8 pounds maybe more. Well that sure was a hurdle to overcome to get better groups than 4 inches with out changing the trigger so I got two schematics, a few intsructional paragraphs from BPCR Reloading.html, and went to town. Having read and understood the three best ways to release trigger weight, I chose the simplest method and then went one more step. Instead of making a piano wire trigger return spring as suggested, I got together with Mr. Dremel and the cut-off disc and took a hacksaw blade and fabricated myself a new less strong return spring. Took all of 20 minutes, a cup of cold water to keep the temper in the spring steel and a couple of fittings and with hopes high the result were no less than amazing. I slowly massaged a curve into the new spring and kept fitting it and taking a tad off the end and after tightening the screw the trigger felt like a kitten compared to the old bear that the arsenal installed. I'm saving the original of course in case I sell the gun or want to go back-NOT! REassembled the gun and put a leather pad in front of the hammer and tripped the sear. SHA-weeet!!! A little bit soft but the sear engages with a good click every time and releases with about a 1.5 or so pound pull by guessing. Now I'm loading the brass for an outing to my 100 yard range this week. YeeHaaaaa!
 
I have an Argentinian contract RRB that I did a sportsterised job on. It was a great original condition full military rifle in 43 Spanish when I got it. One day I noticed what appeared to be a hair stuck to the bore but I could not shift it, it turned out to be a crack in the barrel so I sold the wood and made it into the rifle I wanted, it's now a 45/70. It loves 500 grn home cast bullets, with anything lighter the accuracy suffers. The scope is an old Kollmorgen bear cub.


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