Gotta be forty years ago I bought a lovely little Francotte 30-40 boxlock ejector at Abercrombie & Fitch complete with Lyman Alaskan in a Griffin & Howe topmount on the rib. In those days you could buy factory ammo with 150, 180 and 220 grain bullets. I tried them all with and without the scope and the rifle would not shoot worth a doggone, notwithstanding mint bores. After some discussion, A&F took it back. Maybe a patient handloader could have tamed it, but I am not in that category. A couple of years later they offered another Francotte, quite a beauty, 30-40 with express sights and a second set of scoped barrels in .270. These swallowed up the nogo headspace guage so I did not bother trying it, and have never looked at another Francotte.
