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Reasonable Rifle? If I just happen to find one with the spirit bubble front, and what I think is pedey's long range creedmore and it looks barely used, what would one think is a reasonable price?
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Why the spirit level front????? What caliber???
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45-70. As far as why the spirit bubble sight, don't know. Consignment gun. Previous owner had it on there. My guess is he planned on a lot of target shooting that never happened. Not saying I want it with a bubble - that's just how I found it He also has an old Remington Roller rebarreled to 38-55, and a 1st class 45 cal underhammer, both of which look great, but I'm keeping my distance for the time being, because I could do some serious damage to the bank account there.
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See if you could learn how many rounds out. Not likely you'd be able to do a bore inspection. 1,200 is in the neighborhood.
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Gents: the sprit level indicates if the shooter cants the rifle right or left. That is not shouldering the rifle level.
From what I have observed, once shooting beyond 300 or so yards, the cant will effect bullet strike on the target. Depending upon the range and degree of cant, the shooter could run out of wind adjustment on the front or rear sight.
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Shiloh and C. Sharps are the best you can get. The bottom of the barrel are the old Garrett's and EMF's made by Armi. Pedersoli makes one that is a step up from the bottom and a step below the USA made guns. They are decent guns that are not in the class of a Shiloh. I've owned two of them.
There are currently seven Pedersoli's for sale on GunBroker ranging in asking price from $950 to $1895. Five are 45-70's. Only one has a bid on it of $100 IIRC.
IMO retail would be $1000. $600 wholesale.
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the most expensive bullet there is isn't worth a plug nickel if it don't go where its supposed to. www.historicshooting.com
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Pedersoli makes one that is a step up from the bottom and a step below the USA made guns. They are decent guns that are not in the class of a Shiloh. Their quality has been all OVER the map, for the last 22-23 years that I've looked at and worked on em'. The "Silhouette Models", if one built during Dick Trenk's "Team Pedersoli" era had EXCEPTIONAL barrels, and were tighter chambered than the rest of their production...the ones with barrels polished out on the "Gum Machine".That said, the MAJORITY of em' before were pretty rough,...and some of the ones since absolutely pathetic. If you feel an urge to pay ridiculous prices, be treated rudely, and wait forever for "their supposed to be on the next shipment" parts, that may or very well may NOT fit, ...by all means go with a Pedersoli, and deal with their current U.S. "distributors". Get on the phone with Shilo, and pretty quick it's like your talking to old friends, and all of a sudden the spare parts minefield becomes a fragrant meadow. Ditto C. Sharps, and other U.S. houses. That said their FORGED steel frames, and unreliably and oftimes SLOPPILY fitted guts , locks etc. CAN be worked up into a good, repeatably accurate BPCR. Used ones, broken, and dirt cheap are the sensible source,...no WAY I'd buy anything new from em'. GTC
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Read and heed.
Crossfire knows whereof he speaks.
Something to keep in mind is that the Italians have a history of marketing to the "Ain't it cool" customers, with some exceptions as Cross has noted. So you see flossy exteriors with "engraving", etc. but poorly executed innards.
Caveat emptor.
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I've sure gotten a kick out of the "what's the spirit level all about" comments....
neglected to comment that the Pedersoli staff sight on the rifle pictured is a stand off replica of an original, with Italian "artistic" licence screaming at one from all corners, I kinda' LOOKS like an original Sharps sight, but that's all.
....one must loosen the eyecup to tweak the elevation, and in so doing, the artisans have cleverly set the thing up to go off windage zero / setting. The lash in the elevation lead screw is pretty embarrassing, and one best forget, "come up just a whisker. In a kind word,... WORTHLESS for long range precision, as are most of the rest of their Staff sights, including that overpriced "Creedmoor Soule Style" abortion the spaghetti benders are so proud of.
It's quite something, the scorn with which decent staff sights are sometimes held by the North eastern / Eastern "Dark Side" troops,...I wish they'd come out West here and have a friendly 500 M match with their Barrel sights. Once they've whipped our azzes, and taken our money, maybe they'll be kind enough to put on a clinic, and we'll be able to remove our MVA, Kelly and Hoke rubbish from our guns.
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That would be about right dittos.
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Prices on C Sharps 1875's are pretty reasonable, I think I'd go that route rather than a new Pedersoli. There's a couple on GB right now that are good deals, but I have no immediate need for a .32-40, or a .45-70 In my youth I swapped for one of the Pedersoli Rolling Blocks in .45-70, the one with a 30" untapered octagon bull barrel. It shot pretty well, and I shot some ~1" groups with it at 100 yards, with the big 400gr Speers(pardon the heresy ). It seemed to have a good barrel, but I recall slop in the breechblock when it was locked up. So I think the action machining was only fair.
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Thanks for all the wisdom...
There's a 45 cal short barrel fast twist underhammer in the shop as well.
I was thinking hard about that, but I have a double set trigger assembly sitting on my dresser that is screaming for another home build..
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Thanks for all the wisdom...
There's a 45 cal short barrel fast twist underhammer in the shop as well.
I was thinking hard about that, but I have a double set trigger assembly sitting on my dresser that is screaming for another home build..
When you finally offer $1k for the underhammer and the Sharps, you'll own them both. That next build could EASILY be a roundball twist .36 caliber for squirrels and such, seeing as how your .32 is a fast twist for crazy long conicals. Or, and underhammer smoothbore... say, .62 caliber?
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there is nothing wrong with shooting squirrels with crazy long conicals.
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I notice you avoided the concept of an underhammer smoothbore.
You could, of course, pick up the underhammer, build another on that action, come out money ahead for the time being and STILL be killing stuff with very cool, unique guns off the porch.
Just a thought.
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smoothbores are for people that can't afford rifling.
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Then do a .62 roundball twist on that action at the house, buy the .45, and thump stuff.
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You still need a very light, short roundball twist underhammer in .36 caliber as a "grandkid's rifle".
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the 32 only weighs about 4.5 pounds, but you need a freaking lever to start the bullet....
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