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GSPfan, that is a beautiful rifle. Congrats and well done.

My high wall in 7 mag. I really like the gun, but it just doesn't get used much anymore.

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I just picked up a Low Wall in 22LR, made in 1895, high grade wood and checkering, Swiss buttplate, Globe front, 3 leaf midrange and tangent rear sights, and a 30" #3 octagon barrel, ultimate Ole Timey squirrel gun...going through some cleaning up now.

Beautiful peice of kit ss336 all the others are to drool over mine is an original low wall made in 1891. Left the original 44-40 half round half octagonal barrel on it and had it sleeved for 22K Hornet. It wears a piece of high grade walnut from luxus walnut. Absolutely beautiful as are all 85s. I will never part with mine it will be passed down to my son.

25epps, that rifle would indeed be a keeper. Would love to see pictures of that, much more classy than a later version of the 1885. In K-hornet it must be a hoot to shoot.

Speaking of classy, RecoilRob's original, WOW, that's nice. So many nice single shots out there, so little money.

Hey mornin. Ok Geedubya!! Knock it off man. Please tell me what you did that (to me) made you so successful. Just so I can get a running start if God gives me another chance in another life. Man o man you sure got your priorities right. Envious to say the least. I'm out, Bill. 🐾👣🇨🇦

Not only does he share the images of his beautiful and accurate rifles with us, but these images also display that he hunts with these rifles and is very successful at that. Geedubya, Thanks! for your contributions to these forums. RJ

Mighty purty rifles all around 😊

Where’d you find that? Dod not know they ever got chambered in 308.

I have a real itch for one in 38-55. The Winchester Traditional Hunter looks good. Would like to stick with the open sights for as long as possible. Just seems right on one of these beautiful rifles.

Bought one of those about 3 years ago and can agree that it really seems right on these. The factory supplied Marble's tang sight wobbles a bit front to back so I replaced it with a Lee Shaver "Economy Soule" which works very well on that.

.38-55 is a neat caliber to play with but bore diameter can be .377 to .379 or even larger on many models. The Winchester (Miroku) is .375 which is fortuitous since it will shoot jacketed .375 bullets into very small groups although I mostly use cast sized to .377". Loading die companies aren't real forthcoming about what diameter expander die they provide in their .38-55 sets but the RCBS Cowboy dies come with two different diameter expanders which is nice.

The old style curved buttplate isn't too bad at .38-55 levels but wouldn't want to shoot one much in .45-70. I took mine to a Schuetzen match where you fire 50 rounds plus sighters and that was as much fun as I cared to have even with the .38-55 shooting 250 grain bullets at 1700 fps. The red mark on my shoulder didn't go away for about 3-4 weeks.

Jim,

Thanks for the info. I doubt I'd do any formal shooting but they do look like a ton of fun. Not locked into a 38/55 but do like the idea of it being enough to kill a deer and still be entertaining to shoot targets or steel without getting beat up by a big boomer. Would like to shoot cast bullets with smokeless (Unique or similar) powder. BP seems like a little too much work for what I have in mind - although having that as an option is always nice.