Old Ballard 22's had cast receivers. I do not know when they started being made but they can be identified by the number of lines in the address stamped on the side of the action. It is also possible to see the rough texture of the sand casting by looking inside the action. Ballard did not use cast actions for their center fire rifles. The cast receivers have caused problems when the action was later converted to shoot center fire cartridges. An example of this is the 40-65 which blew up at the Quigley match several years ago.
