Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I had one once. It was very old, my best educated guess was about 100 years old. And it looked like it.Made by C. Lancaster & Son, London England. A side lever, single shot design, chambered in 360 #5 or maybe #6. Really close to, and could chamber 38 long colt. This was a few years ago....so no 38 long colt available as Cowboy Shooting Sports not popular in Canada at the time.
Best thing to do, was to rechamber it to 38 Special and holy god it was quiet using the 158 grain full wadcutter with hollow base.
(lite lite loads about 3.0 grains of something or another, unique I believe but do not quote me)
The rifle needed a soft bullet because the bore was slightly oversize. Therefore the full wadcutters hollow base would kind of fill the rifling to give it some spin.
NOT a tackdriver by any means, however at about max range of 25 yards in the brush covered ravines of South Saskatchewan, when one let the hammer down on a snowshoe hare, his nearby friends would not even move, they just kind of looked around wondering what was going on! Gave a guy plenty of time to carry out a St. Valentine's remake, so to speak.
Also those 38 fullwadcutters did some awesome job of anchoring them, kind of strange compared to 22 rimfire or shotgun pellets. Not a graet amount of tissue damage compared to 22 HPs, but it worked kind of like shotgun killed deer with slugs, a full calibre tunnel through them, unless you hit a bone and that hollow base split apart like a weak rivet.
Would have kept it, but the accuracy at 35 to 40 yards was pathetic.
My bad, cause it was very very quiet....just like Elmer Fudd would have liked.
Has anyone used a similar setup for small game hunting??
Cheers.........
Best thing to do, was to rechamber it to 38 Special and holy god it was quiet using the 158 grain full wadcutter with hollow base.
(lite lite loads about 3.0 grains of something or another, unique I believe but do not quote me)
The rifle needed a soft bullet because the bore was slightly oversize. Therefore the full wadcutters hollow base would kind of fill the rifling to give it some spin.
NOT a tackdriver by any means, however at about max range of 25 yards in the brush covered ravines of South Saskatchewan, when one let the hammer down on a snowshoe hare, his nearby friends would not even move, they just kind of looked around wondering what was going on! Gave a guy plenty of time to carry out a St. Valentine's remake, so to speak.
Also those 38 fullwadcutters did some awesome job of anchoring them, kind of strange compared to 22 rimfire or shotgun pellets. Not a graet amount of tissue damage compared to 22 HPs, but it worked kind of like shotgun killed deer with slugs, a full calibre tunnel through them, unless you hit a bone and that hollow base split apart like a weak rivet.
Would have kept it, but the accuracy at 35 to 40 yards was pathetic.
My bad, cause it was very very quiet....just like Elmer Fudd would have liked.
Has anyone used a similar setup for small game hunting??
Cheers.........
