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I can't answer for Dennis on this. When I did my Favorite I found an elderly gentleman in Grand Prairie, Texas that sold NOS Stevens parts. I need to search for his contact and put it close in hand. They are neat little rifles. Basically a falling block .22. I am really excited about it. Very high quality. Yes Sir, I know the Favorites. I did one a few years ago for my best friend. This is another place for Favorite parts. http://www.wisnersinc.com/model/stevens-favorite-1889-1894-1915/Saddlesore, 2 months turn around ain't bad and he was able to fix the firing pin and rollingblock problem while he had it. Should have it in a week or two.
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Thanks Butch.When had Taylor do my 38-40, it was just shy of a year.
I will be at the range tomorrow tinkering with this 38-55. That will help me decide to re-line or not.
Muledeer suggested I try Dyna Tec on the bore first.
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Thanks Butch.When had Taylor do my 38-40, it was just shy of a year.
I will be at the range tomorrow tinkering with this 38-55. That will help me decide to re-line or not.
Muledeer suggested I try Dyna Tec on the bore first. How did it shoot? I hope the RB comes today, if not Monday.
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Thanks Butch.When had Taylor do my 38-40, it was just shy of a year.
I will be at the range tomorrow tinkering with this 38-55. That will help me decide to re-line or not. Muledeer suggested I try Dyna Tec on the bore first. How did it shoot? I hope the RB comes today, if not Monday. The Dyna Tec has helped with the fouling. I ran about 30 rounds thru it without any of them keyholing, but they were mild loads. Right now, I don't know if the key holing was due to excessive lead fouling or undersized bullets. I need to find some .381 diameter bullets to see if that will improve things. I will be ordering some .380's Monday. If they don't workout, I will order some not sized and have the guy powder coat them. Should bring them up to.381
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Thanks Butch.When had Taylor do my 38-40, it was just shy of a year.
I will be at the range tomorrow tinkering with this 38-55. That will help me decide to re-line or not. Muledeer suggested I try Dyna Tec on the bore first. How did it shoot? I hope the RB comes today, if not Monday. The Dyna Tec has helped with the fouling. I ran about 30 rounds thru it without any of them keyholing, but they were mild loads. Right now, I don't know if the key holing was due to excessive lead fouling or undersized bullets. I need to find some .381 diameter bullets to see if that will improve things. I will be ordering some .380's Monday. If they don't workout, I will order some not sized and have the guy powder coat them. Should bring them up to.381 Someplace in one of my drawers I have several rounds of 9.3X55 marked ammo. It is loaded in 38-55 brass. I know nothing about them. It came from the estate of one of my old shooting friends.
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Someplace in one of my drawers I have several rounds of 9.3X55 marked ammo. It is loaded in 38-55 brass. I know nothing about them. It came from the estate of one of my old shooting friends.
The 9.3 is indeed .376 which I hear newer 38-55's are. (Like Winchester's.375) . Older ones tend to be on the.379-.380 diameter.Wonder how case dimensions compare. However, I have only been in this 38-55 business a few months and slowly finding out that there is a lot that I don't know about what I don't know. A few years ago I came into possession of a Single Action Colt in about1900 mfgr. Part of it was pre smokeless and the part that mattered was smokeless. . I had heck of a time matching bullets.The cylinder was 38-40 sized, but the barrel was .401. It turned out thru research that Colt had lot more .401 barrels than 38-40 so they used them instead..The biggest cast bullet could get chambered was .403. I got it shooting, but POI is 2'' high and 3"left. I can't find any lighter bullets than the std 180gr to get it to shoot lower,and no one wants to turn the barrel to correct the windage. Then I had Taylor reline the Marlin 94 and it takes smaller bullet .Decided then to not get into custom bullet molds and bullet casting.
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Function tested it today. It shoots great with the old sights just where they were before sending it out. Offhand at 30yds I hit a tin can. I'm happy. I'm going to try to redo the original wood and then off to Turnbull.
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Dennis called and sait it was done. I may have mentioned that he bushed and remachined the rolling block face and made a new firing pin for it. Hope to have it back in a couple weeks. Good Heavens, that didn't take long at all!! That sounds like the makings of a heck of a small game rifle. The .32H&R has always intrigued me. I've been wanting one. I just missed an 1885 on Gunbroker, and I'm still kicking myself. Do we get to see some pictures??
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Dennis called and said it was done. I may have mentioned that he bushed and remachined the rolling block face and made a new firing pin for it. Hope to have it back in a couple weeks. Good Heavens, that didn't take long at all!! That sounds like the makings of a heck of a small game rifle. The .32H&R has always intrigued me. I've been wanting one. I just missed an 1885 on Gunbroker, and I'm still kicking myself. Do we get to see some pictures?? I am famous for posting photos, but my hosting places, photobucket and TinyPic have been taken over by Google. I can no longer post them or email them. I guess I need to get my Great Grand Daughter to help me get it straightened out. Yes, they have disappeared from my computer. I think they are on my hard drive.
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Dennis called and said it was done. I may have mentioned that he bushed and remachined the rolling block face and made a new firing pin for it. Hope to have it back in a couple weeks. Good Heavens, that didn't take long at all!! That sounds like the makings of a heck of a small game rifle. The .32H&R has always intrigued me. I've been wanting one. I just missed an 1885 on Gunbroker, and I'm still kicking myself. Do we get to see some pictures?? I am famous for posting photos, but my hosting places, photobucket and TinyPic have been taken over by Google. I can no longer post them or email them. I guess I need to get my Great Grand Daughter to help me get it straightened out. Yes, they have disappeared from my computer. I think they are on my hard drive. I'm about the furthest thing from computer savvy. I've been using that Imgur app, and it works great. Now you got me hunting #2's on GB!! Thanks alot.
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By the way, what are you going to do for a sight on that #2? I can't seem to find any tang sights that would fit?
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By the way, what are you going to do for a sight on that #2? I can't seem to find any tang sights that would fit? Since it is a tin can shooter the factory sights are good enough for me.
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