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Beauty!

Very Nice!

Wow......... I'm speechless..... What a nice snag. Thanks for posting that and keep us updated on what you and Mike V. find with it.

That's a nice rig. Possibly S&W 44 American?

As an aside, Cornell Publications has digitized many Winchester catalogs and sells reprints. They have the January and Sept. 1885 catalogs on file. Would probably list what rounds the '66 were chambered for at that time. About $17/ea. I bought the 1902 one for my shotgun and quality is topnotch.

I even pulled the stock to look at the assembly numbers and they match. The sight is also correct...

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. It would be neat to find out the life story of that rifle.

Nice laddersight..

Reminds me of that Gus in Lonesome Dove shot where he shot the guy acting like a chicken.

.44RF may not blow your guts out your backbone at over 600 yards, but it'll make you wish you hadn't been a fool!

I expect that was a pricey little gem. Really cool.

It is cool to see a piece of history that has been that well cared for. Looking forward to hearing about it being restored to critter gittin condition.


mike r

I have a 44 colt round if ya need one.

Should be 44 Henry Centerfire. This may help.
https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/44-henry-centerfire-flat-information/8914

I took it over to Mike Venturino's house and with some resizing brass and bullets, we got it shooting...

So...did you guys figure out the identity of the cartridge yet?

I've seen the conversion caliber called a "44CF" before.

Not sure there really is a name. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Turns out it was a 38 special.

Interesting thing about 1866 Winchesters..

Until about the time you didn't want to go into Mexico anymore, you could buy '66's pretty cheap down there.

When more modern rifles came about, the 44H 1866's were pretty much obsolete, and sold cheap. Lots of them found their way to Mexico (who liked cheap guns).

You could buy them for $100-200. But they were nearly always "very well used" condition.

But if you could get 'em back here, they would bring many times that.

6.5 Creedmoor short-straightwall necked up to 44 with the necking-up tapering straightly all the way back to the head of the case. The extra brass that flows back is then flattened out into a case-rim.

ttt

44 Russian cases and 200 grain 44-40 bullets seated to the crimping groove seems to work. I had to get home and left the job unfinished. We were going to finish another article on 222 magnum, then shoot the SRC some more today, but the sun came out and I went gopher shooting instead.

We will try again tomorrow...